Tess of the d’Urberville :: Literary Analysis, Thomas Hardy

Thomas fearlesss Tess of the dUrbervilles is a criticism on Victorian society. moreover the major, universal idea it criticizes is the creative activity of true love. Through the relationships Tess has been in, as well as the time duration in which Hardy lived in, it has become evident that there will eternally be a flaw with romance.To begin with, Hardy wrote realist works of literature. In order to escape the fantasy of Romantic works realism was a response in which the true social characteristics of life were illustrated. This is evident in Tess of the dUrbervilles as Tess is depicted as admitting to the condition of our planet, a blight one (40). By admitting life and Earth to be a decaying one, Hardy has shown that things could be better, a major standpoint of other social sources of his day. But as well as being a novelist, Hardy was a poet and a renowned one at that as well. In his verse form Between Us Now Hardy again demonstrates characteristics of a realist writer L et there be truth at last / plane if despair (lines 7, 8) meaning that he will be acceptant of twain the truth and its consequences. Therefore, Hardy is completely capable of describing social issues, and does so in Tess.Now, the first major relationship Tess is in is with Alec dUrberville in which she is repress to mistreatment. One of the most evident examples of the way Alec treats Tess in the garden, in which he feeds her strawberries while she was in a slight distress and even smokes in front of her, although she claims that she minds not at all (52). Now the clearer example, the strawberry abuse, alludes to the pamper which comes later on in the novel. She is forced to consume the strawberry although she would instead take it in her own hand (52), obviously showing refusal at a blunt state, In addition to this Alec unabashedly smoked round her, which is not only disrespectful but hazardous to her health. The narcotic murkiness (52), which permeated the rooms Alec and Tes s were in, acted like enigmatic amnesiac clouds of death. They not only hold in visibility but choked Tess and damaged her eventually later on. This is as well parallel to her rape in that the damage done by Alec was nonvisual for a long time in both cases. Later on in the novel, Alec is very shortly converted into a devout Christian but is tempted by Tess, whom he calls a dear damned magnetise of Babylon (377).