Tess of the d'Urbervilles

Main Plot
Some time later, Tess begins work as a milkmaid, and there she meets her true love Angel Clare. Angel believes her completely innocent. They fall in love, but Angel does not learn of her previous relationship with Alec until their wedding night, and rejects her. Deserted by her husband, Tess meets Alec again, and poverty forces her to resume their relationship. Angel returns from travelling abroad, remorseful at his treatment of Tess, but finds her with Alec. Tess murders Alec in order to run away with Angel. They spend one night of happiness together, before she is arrested.
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Tess of the d'Urbervilles
Tess of the d'Urbervilles
Main Characters
Tess d'Urberville
The protagonist, the eldest daughter in a poor rural working family. She is a fresh, pretty country girl. Ahe has a vsriety of excellent quality, superior to those socalled aristocratic and bourgeois. Her filial piety, gentleness, perseverance, sincerity, courage and rebellious character is well known. But it is because of these characteristics that make her own destiny to the end.
Thomas Hardy --- Major Works
Far from the Madding Crowd (1874) The Return of the Native (1878) The Mayer of Casterbridge (1886) The Woodlanders (1887) Tess of the d'Urbervilles (1891)
(2 June 1840 – 11 January 1928)
Thomas Hardy --- Life
Thomas Hardy's birthplace at Higher Bockhampton, where Under the Greenwood Tree and Far from the Madding Crowd were written.
Thomas Hardy --- Life Homas Hardy was born in 1840 in Higher Bockhampton (Upper Bockhampton in his day), a hamlet in the parish of Stinsford to the east of Dorchester in Dorset, England, where his father Thomas (1811-1892) worked as a stonemason and local builder. For several years he attended Mr. Last's Academy for Young Gentlemen in Dorchester. He won prizes from the Royal Institute of British Architects and the Architectural Association.
Tess of the d'Urbervilles
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Angel Clare The son of a clergyman, Tess's husband and true love. He considered himself a freethinkerm but his notions of morality turned out to be fairly conventional: he rejected Tess on their wedding night when she confessed that she was not a virgin, even thoush he, too, has engaged in premarital sex.
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Thomas Hardy
He was an English novelist and poet. a victorian realist in the tradition of George Eliot, he was influenced both in his novels and in his poetry by Romanticism, especially William Wordsworth. Charles Dickens was another important influence.
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Main Plot
In the Victorian period, a rural clergyman in England tells Durbeyfield, a simple farmer, that he is descended from the illustrious d'Urberville family, now extinct; or maybe not. Durbeyfield sends his daughter Tess to check on a family named d'Urberville living in a manor house less than a day's carriage ride away. Alec d'Urberville is delighted to meet his beautiful cousin, and he seduces her with strawberries and roses. But Alec is no relation to Tess; he has gotten his illustrious name and coat of arms by purchasing them. Alec falls in love with Tess, rapes her, and she leaves, pregnant; back at home, the baby dies.
Main Characters
Alec d'Urberville
He seduced Tess when she is no more than seventeen years old, and later persues her relentlessly until she agrees to become his mistress again.