Tess of d’Urbervilles
This story begins with John Durbeyfield, an ordinary countryman who was told to belong to a noble family. Because he had a poor family this fact could influence the prospect of his children, so he had to prove it.
John wanted his daughter, Tess, a beautiful girl to go to Shaston, the neighboring city to the home of Alec d’Urbervilles to talk to him. Instead of paying attention to this fact Alec fell in love with her but Tess was really unwilling .Finally Tess got hurt by him and she lost her virginity.
From this time her whole life changed. She decided to start a new life by working in the farm and helping with harvesting, but the problem was that she was not relaxed in her hometown any more because of all those criticisms by her peers.
Soon after she left there and her family for ever and ended up in a farm-yard and got to know a man named Angel and started working there as a milker, but she was beautiful enough to catch even his attention. Tess was not unwilling to marry her but she was afraid of her past; therefore some days before marriage she wrote a letter and put it in his bedroom, but the fact was that Angel did not have the chance to see the letter. On wedding day everything was ok until they came back from the church and it was when Angel found that letter. He was so surprised that he did not know what to do. It was very difficult for him to face the reality. They were living but with no attention from Angel. Later Angel went to Brazil in order to forget her which was very distressing for Tess but accidentally she met Alec again in the absence of Angel and had no choice except marrying him although she really loved Angel; so she wrote a letter to Brazil and wanted him to come back and forgive her but there was no answer.
A year later Angel founded that he had been too cruel to Tess and came back but it was too late. Tess and Alek had got married. The only thing Tess could do was to revenge on Alek and finally killed him to join Angel but what was the use? Soon she was captured by police.
Personal Comment:
This has always been a question to me; why is beauty damaged by ugliness. Thousands of years of philosophy can not give us the answer to this question. These things happen and have always happened. But we can not accept that this was Tess's fault and should happen to her.
Perhaps it was to be.
This story begins with John Durbeyfield, an ordinary countryman who was told to belong to a noble family. Because he had a poor family this fact could influence the prospect of his children, so he had to prove it.
John wanted his daughter, Tess, a beautiful girl to go to Shaston, the neighboring city to the home of Alec d’Urbervilles to talk to him. Instead of paying attention to this fact Alec fell in love with her but Tess was really unwilling .Finally Tess got hurt by him and she lost her virginity.
From this time her whole life changed. She decided to start a new life by working in the farm and helping with harvesting, but the problem was that she was not relaxed in her hometown any more because of all those criticisms by her peers.
Soon after she left there and her family for ever and ended up in a farm-yard and got to know a man named Angel and started working there as a milker, but she was beautiful enough to catch even his attention. Tess was not unwilling to marry her but she was afraid of her past; therefore some days before marriage she wrote a letter and put it in his bedroom, but the fact was that Angel did not have the chance to see the letter. On wedding day everything was ok until they came back from the church and it was when Angel found that letter. He was so surprised that he did not know what to do. It was very difficult for him to face the reality. They were living but with no attention from Angel. Later Angel went to Brazil in order to forget her which was very distressing for Tess but accidentally she met Alec again in the absence of Angel and had no choice except marrying him although she really loved Angel; so she wrote a letter to Brazil and wanted him to come back and forgive her but there was no answer.
A year later Angel founded that he had been too cruel to Tess and came back but it was too late. Tess and Alek had got married. The only thing Tess could do was to revenge on Alek and finally killed him to join Angel but what was the use? Soon she was captured by police.
Personal Comment:
This has always been a question to me; why is beauty damaged by ugliness. Thousands of years of philosophy can not give us the answer to this question. These things happen and have always happened. But we can not accept that this was Tess's fault and should happen to her.
Perhaps it was to be.
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