Analysis Of Thomas Hardy 's ' Tess Of The D ' Urbervilles

Fate is an all powerful and unavoidable development of events that leads you to what you deserve based on how you life your life. In the novel “Ethan Frome” by Edith Wharton the three main characters; Ethan, Mattie, and Zeena, all suffered a torturous fate due to many wrong doings, primarily, all the secrets they kept for their own individual benefit. Ethan’s lie was being in love with Mattie, Mattie’s lie was being in love with Ethan, and Zeena’s lie was being deathly ill, however, these lies resulted in sneaking around, hiding, and betrayal throughout the novel. In addition, the perspective the book was written in allows the reader to pass unfair judgement on the characters based on a bias point of view.

Sacrificed the truth, beauty and the right to think, happiness and comfort is just indulgent, it is the discomfort brought by the misery, responsibility and the bonding give us the weight of life. The world is full of people who try hard to gain happiness, and we all have at least one time the idea of living in a perfect world, a world without pain, without misery, without getting old and without cancers. We always ignored the importance and the beauty of uncomfortableness, just as a quote in this book said, “Stability isn’t nearly so spectacular as instability. And being contented has none of the glamour of a good fight against misfortune, none of the picturesqueness of a struggle with temptation, or a fatal overthrow by passion or doubt. Happiness is never grand”. After read this book, I started to be more objective at those bad things I used to hate, to understand the significance of art and to be grateful to this imperfect world we are

Happiness is a fundamental right that all human beings are allowed to pursue of their own accord by the government. Yet, imagine a society in which all the thinking is done for their citizens, feelings are gotten rid of before they could be felt and it was encouraged to not accept the downsides of life. Throughout the pages of Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury, he describes the lives of many characters. Specifically their relationship with the emotion of happiness. Bradbury brings to the attention of the reader of whether the characters are happy or distracted. A person cannot be happy if they do are not honest with themselves and if they do not feel or think for themselves. Through the experiences of the characters spoken about, it will be seen how happiness is not felt and lived, because their distractions take place.

A reader who is skimming through the novel „The Great Gatsby“ by F. Scott Fitzgerald might consider a happy ending by the end of the fifth chapter, however at a slightly more detailed look there are clear signs that indicate that a tragic and miserable ending is the only possible one. This essay will be looking at how Fitzgerald foreshadows tragedy, and how he presents tragedy in the lives of the novel’s characters.

People never recognize the reality that their sin and indifferent caused the tragedy. The author, Flannery O’Conner, uses the irony in three different aspects to emphasize how the indifferent and selfish penetrate into each character from small to large. Small indifferent may not cause tragedy but large different will become a serious problem. If everyone show indifference and selfishness, then the society becomes hypocritical and selfish. However, at the end of the story, the grandmother touched the Misfit’s shoulder, the Misfit was shocked, then his put down his gun and tried to clean tear (O’Connor 349) and the grandmother “..who half sat and half lay in a puddle of blood with her legs crossed under her like a child’s and her face smiling

Montag tries to enlighten his wife to society’s intellectual apathy; however, she is unable to come to a similar realization. Montag is forced to seek help from a retired English professor named Faber. This marks the onset of the third phase. Montag starts to take command of his own destiny. His former lifestyle is now left behind and he recognizes the significance of his relationship with Faber because they are the only ones fighting against society. While on his way to visit Faber, Bradbury uses two biblical allusions that signify the importance of having a philosophical faith. Montag stresses to himself that he must “consider the Lilies” (Bradbury 74). This reference to the Lilies of the Field correlates with a bible passage (Mathew 6:28) and suggests that God will take care of everything and that one must not worry. Montag excessively recites this bible passage in his head while on the train going to visit Faber. He uses the passage to calm his nerves and remind himself that everything will work out and to have faith in himself and Faber. Another bible reference, to the Book of Job, comes after the meeting between Faber and Montag. Through the Green bullet in Montag’s ear that allows Faber to communicate with him, Faber simply says “The Book of Job,” reminding Montag that he must have faith because the journey ahead will be arduous and self sacrificing. Montag is reborn and becomes a new person while reviving Faber, causing him to feel more alive than he has

Within Marie de France’s lais are found multiple complications within a love plot, and when the reader reaches the end of the tale, all of those difficulties are magically overcome. The idea of love strengthening while enduring hardships is a central plot in Marie de France. Within Marie’s stories such as “Guigemar”, “Le Frense”, and “Lanval” there are love stories that seem to overcome insurmountable complications. Rather, they seemed likely to lead to a tragic ending. However, through the power of love and what seems to be a magical force, everything is resolved and the couples whisk away to live their lives together, or experience another similar magical ending.

There are several types of tragedy and they all affect people's lives in a negative way. Tragedies can be caused intentionally or unintentionally; they can arise from something so small that they are almost unnoticeable but ultimately end as an unforgettable event in one’s life. In A Separate Peace by John Knowles, tragedy plays a large role in the story by making a kind and good-hearted person meet an untimely and unexpected death. Knowles’s use of tragedy reveals to the reader that life can be hard and evil and cannot be as perfect as one would want it to be. The tragic elements in A Separate Peace, including struggle, justice and tragic waste demonstrated through Gene’s internal struggle with his jealousy of Finny and his misguided fear

The human society often forgets the sacrifices made to achieve happiness. Soldiers fight for years so that America can possess it’s freedom. Mothers sacrifice nine months of their life to give birth to their “ little bundle of happiness”. Sometimes sacrifice is needed in order to obtain the greater good. In “The Lottery” by Shirley Jackson and “ The ones who walk away from Omelas” by Ursula Guin, the common theme is the idea of sacrifice. Readers can portray the theme by comparing and contrasting the difference between the societies, the innocents involved, and the sacrifice made.

In Tess of the D’Urbervilles by Thomas Hardy and Their Eyes Were Watching God by Zora Neale Hurston, the novels show the climax of the novel in the best way possible. Both protagonists Janie Crawford and Tess D’Urberville confront the men in their lives and choose actions that worsen their situation. Hardy and Hurston utilize characterization to showcase the internal struggles of their protagonists in order to create the ultimate climax in the novel. During the climax of these novels, Janie and Tess carried out similar actions in response to the situations they are presented with. For Janie, she murders Tea Cake only because” the gun came up unsteadily but quickly and leveled at Janie’s breast” (TEWWG).

“But the sad truth is that the truth is sad, and that what you want does not matter. A series of unfortunate events can happen to anyone, no matter what they want.”(144) In Lemony Snicket’s series, the Baudelaire children come to realize that a series of unfortunate events can happen to anyone, and even children in happy families and loving homes. Violet, Klaus, and Sunny Baudelaire experience three incredibly unfortunate events illustrating the central theme that bad things can happen to good people: nearly being thrown into a lion’s pit, stranded on Mortmain Mountain, and Sunny’s kidnapping. While these events that the Baudelaire children go through are difficult, it is essential to recognize that bad things happen to everyone, even the best

Fate means different things to different people in the novel. Fate within the book is often tied to God being in control, with the boys thinking about if things could turn out differently and why certain things happen, "Rawlins lay watching the stars. After a while he said I could still be born. I might look different or somethin. If God wanted me to Born. I’d be born. And if he didn’t you wouldnt (McCarthy 27)”. Fate is also tied to feelings of responsibility throughout the book. John Grady is in a constant moral conflict of wanting to leave Blevins versus feeling responsible for him at the same time. The novel often shows two approaches to dealing with fate. There is Alfonsa who learned to just accept fate as it is and John Grady Cole who

No one likes to be tragic or melancholic because “tragedy” is considered to have negative impacts on individual’s life. It is true that it is not pleasant to go through the tragic moment. Tragedy is like rain during drought. You’ll never know when it will come. In reality, tragedy can make a person understand the feelings for others by putting themselves in other’s shoes. It nurtures our inner ethical compass which gives us a sense of both empathy and sympathy for others and for ourselves. Out of all the characters in The Great Gatsby, Daisy appears to be the most responsible for the tragic ending. She is beautiful, popular among men, and materialistic. She cared about wealth more than any other. When Gatsby tried to win her love, he lied about his financial status. He disguised as a rich man. After Gatsby left for war, Daisy, being a wealth-oriented person, did not keep her promise to wait for Gatsby. After losing Daisy, Gatsby is full of hope to win her love again. Based on that motives, he achieves unbelievable wealth and fame. Tragedy provides us a sense of humanity; helps us realize our limits; and motivates us to achieve

Finally, when Angel and Tess are reunited and their love rekindled, things should revert back to normal. Unfortunately, the two have deteriorated too far and Angel is unable to give up his fantasies. Hardy reinforces the destitute nature of their final days together in the way in which he describes their lives as fugitives. Angel and Tess seem ethereal, non-present, as they wander aimlessly and absentmindedly through the English countryside (Hardy, 475-6). Furthermore, they retreat into the interior of the country, trap themselves in the dark house with windows like “sightless eyes”—as if they are withdrawing into themselves, or eachother (Hardy, 478). Even if they were not caught, the life the lovers would have lead would have been haunted by their troubled past, they would forever be waiting for death to release them from their suffering.

The idea of inherited curse and sins makes one ponder the deep concept of pre-destination and free-will which is often debated upon. Whether the inherited curse was incurred upon the House and Pyncheons due to the Maule’s curse alone or was their own folly liable and blameworthy too. This perhaps is a conflicting issue of the text. One can interpret this dichotomy in both ways. Readers can see the deaths of Colonel Pyncheon, old Jaffrey Pyncheon and Judge Jaffrey Pyncheon either as a result of that inherited curse given by Mathew Maule or even due to the faults of each of them individually. The similar fashion of each death results the reader’s thinking meander into the stream of a single thought that these deaths are result of some supernatural or mystical element which is not ordinary. This supernatural element only, instill within our understanding that the characters have least agency of their destinies. This paper, hence, can comment on the fact that perhaps these happenings and deaths are not human governed and therefore lie not in their hands to