Tess Of D’Urbervilles

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Tess of d’Urbervilles By Thomas Hardy Victorian time The Victorian time of the England was the period of Queen Victoria’s reign. Her reign was from year 1837 and till her death in 1901. Her reign lasted accordingly 63 years and this is longer than any other British monarch and furthermore is her reign the longest of any female monach in the whole history. Victoria was a very important symbolic of her time. Her reign was marked by a great expansion of the British Empire and during this period England became the biggest global power. As already mentioned is the time of her reign known as the “Victorian time”, which was a period centred on industrial, political, scientific and military progress in England. Characteristic for Victorian time is also that women are oppressed by men and the society, which our novel is a good example of. Summary of the novel Tess Durbeyfield and her family, who is part of the working class hates to work, so as they learn that Tess’ father is the descendant of a rich family, the d’Urbervilles, they send Tess to the d’Urbervilles mansion, to ask for money, or to marry well, so her parent future is taken care of. Despite the feeling that asking for money is wrong, Tess leaves for the sake of her family, without knowing that this meeting will seal her dreadful fate. At the d’Urbervilles mansion Tess gets a job as tending fowls. But at the mansion Tess also meets her relative Alec d’Urbervilles. As the months go on, Alec tries to seduce Tess, but one night after a fair, Alec takes advantage of Tess. As Tess does not love Alec, she leaves the mansion to go home. At home Tess learns that she is pregnant with Alec’s baby. A baby, she names sorrow. After being ill Sorrow dies. Tess is in a deep state of sadness, but after a year in grief, she decides to leave home once again, this time to work as a milkmaid on a

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