Is being in love always a happy experience? With references to
the main characters in Tess of the D’Urbervilles, show the range
of emotions love can bring.
Tess of the D’Urbervilles
Is being in love always a happy experience? With references to the
main characters in ‘Tess of the D’Urbervilles’, show the range of
emotions love can bring.
Thomas Hardy was born in June 1840 and was educated until he was 16
near Dorchester. By 1867 Hardy had begun to write his first
unpublished novel, ‘The Poor Man and the Lady’. By the time he had
married his wife in 1874 he had written four novels and was earning a
living as a writer. It total Thomas Hardy has written eleven novels,
one of which is ‘Tess of the D’Urbervilles’ set in ‘Wessex’. The
novel was first introduced to the public in 1891 after three
publishers who all said it would be born into controversy had rejected
it. This was because it was unheard of for a young woman to be
unmarried with a young baby because of the social aspects of that
time. Despite this, many women readers considered Tess to be the
heroin of the novel.
In ‘Tess of the D’Urbervilles’ it is clear that love is not always a
happy experience as shown by Tess, Angel and to some extent Alec
D’Urberville.
The first experience of love in ‘Tess of the D’Urbervilles’ is when
Tess, a 16 year old working class girl, is sent to claim kinship from
the D’Urberville residents because Tess and her family believe they
can help them. This is when Tess meets Alec D’Urberville for the
first time. It is instantly clear there is a physical attraction when
Alec begins flirting with Tess. This continues when Tess is offered
work at the D’Urberville resident where she has to look after Mrs
D’Urbervil...
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...spend their last happy night together. This part in the book is where
the couple are at their happiest together because they truly love one
another without having any secrets from one another. Angel feels the
need to protect Tess but in the morning guards arrive to take Tess
away. Although they are both expecting this it is hard for them to
separate for the final time. A black flag goes up at a castle at the
end of the book to symbolise Tess’ execution.
‘A few minutes after the hour had struck something moved slowly up the
staff, and extended itself upon the breeze. It was a black flag.’
‘Tess of the D’ Urbervilles’ is a clear example that love is not
always a happy experience. There are many joyous, happy experiences
but with these come many sad, unhappy experiences of love. Despite
all of these events, Hardy still makes Tess the heroin of the story.
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