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Monday, February 4, 2019

Tess Of The D Urbervilles - Finding A Place In Life :: essays research papers

Finding A Place In Life          By human nature, people take in a sense of belonging to be happy and fulfilled in life. It is more difficult for some to achieve this polish than others. Having friends and being love is an important part of life for most people, yet if this is difficult for them to achieve, this goal could consume their life.     This is true in Thomas Hardys novel Tess of the dUrbervilles, where Tess, a descriptively pretty young girl goes to great lengths to find her place in the world. She moves from town to town searching for her place in society. She first settles in the city of Marlott where she leads a simple life. "Tess at this time of her life was a mere vessel of emotion untinctured by experience" (Hardy 11). Tess continues to travel to distinct towns in hopes she will improve her life by finding the individual she wishes to spend the bear of her life with. Throughout all this disrupt ion in her life, "she is an ambitious woman in search of a new wizardry" (Hardy 15). She continues to travel because she wants more from life and has the ambition to attempt to find her place.      Tess had to do it with many threatening, dangerous, and sad situations during her search. The first occurs when she arrives in the growing town of Tantridge. thither she worked as a dairymaid on the Flintcomb-Ash Farm. Even with her dislike for this assembly line she continues to work at it for over two years until she knows for certain that this is non her place in the world. As she "progresses (she) wonder whether it would be wiser to return home. The resolve, as yet had been taken, and it seems Vacillating to abandon it now, unless for graver reasons" (Hardy 67). As she continues to live in Tantridge, she gets into fights, drinks, and ends up being raped and impregnated. Alec is the man who attempts to convince Tess that she belongs with him, an d that they were meant to be together. In her midpoint Tess realizes Alec is not the man she wishes to be with. Unfortunately she continues on in the unilateral relationship which leads to Alec raping Tess. She does not yet know how severe the consequences are for not being a unpolluted woman. This idea of being a pure woman is so important in this period of time that Tess keeps it a secret even from Angel, who is her new love and the man she wants to spend the rest of her life with.

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