Tess of the D’UrbervillesLove story novel

Tess of the D’Urbervilles (Idea)

•Tess of the d'Urbervilles: A Pure Woman Faithfully Presented is a novel by Thomas Hardy. It initially appeared in an serialized version, published by the British newspaper The Graphic in 1891 and in book form in 1892.

Tess of the D’Urbervilles (Characters)

Characters Alec d'UrbervillesTess Durbeyfield Angel Clare John Durbeyfield

Introduction (Characters)Characters Introduction• Alec d'Urbervilles Twenty-four-year-old

man. His first name,

Alexander. His full last name, Stoke-

d’Urberville.

• Tess Durbeyfield

Intelligent. strikingly attractive. deep moral sensitivity. central character of the

novel.

Introduction (Characters)Characters Introduction•  Angel Clare Son of Minister.

Never enter college. Study agriculture. Became Farmer. Narrow Minded.

• John Durbeyfield

Tess' father. Middleman who buys

vegetables and poultry from wholesalers to sell to retailers.

Uneducated. Poor.

Summary

• Tess is a Girl living in the late 19th Century in an village, even though it's only a four-hour journey from London. Her father is the last ancestor of the D'Urbervilles—one of the oldest, most gentle, families in all of England.

• ("Maiden No More") opens with Tess back at her parents‘ house in the village of Marlott . She's had a baby as a result of her connection with Alec, and has separatedherself from her friends out of a combination of shame and pride. She works a few odd jobs to make money, and things are going okay until her baby suddenly gets sick... and dies. Tess is more worried about the baby's

soul than anything else, so she buries it in the churchyard on the sly.

• Most of her friends and neighbors have forgotten about Tess's troubles But she hasn't, so she decides to go to a neighboring county to work at a dairy farm where nobody knows her. One of the other workers at the dairy, Angel Clare, Angel is learning about farming so that he can move to the colonies in America and become a wealthy farmer there. He and Tess gradually fall in love.

• Tess wants to tell Angel about her past, but she can't bring herself observed it to him. Finally, the night before they're imagine to get married, she write a note about her past. But he never saw the note. On their wedding night, he declare to her that he'd had a strange woman in London long before he'd met Tess. So Tess feels like she can tell him about Alec, since that wasn't her fault.

Critical View

• “Hardy the novelist tells ;• When Tess tells Angel on their wedding night about how she had

sex with Alec d’Urbervilles, he completely rejects her and goes off to Brazil without her. Tess goes to live with her parents. When her father dies, she goes back home and Alec d’Urbervilles comes to see her. He asks her to marry him. She keeps saying, “no, no, no,” but when Tess and her family have nowhere to live, her mother says that Tess will marry Alec. • Tess’s husband Angel Clare comes back from Brazil and tries to

track Tess down. He finally finds her and it comes out that she is married to Alec and her life is basically over. After he leaves, Tess goes and tells Alec that her husband is back. • Tess goes and finds Angel and they start running from the police.

But, alas, they cannot run fast enough. The police catch them, and Tess tells Angel to marry her sister. They didn’t show it, but I’m pretty sure Tess was executed.

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