Theme Of Coincidence In Tess Of D Urbervilles

In one’s everyday life, we are surrounded with environmental factors that could potentially shape the aspects of our lives. These types of factors range anywhere from negative to positive on a broad spectrum. For instance in Eugenia Collier’s short story “Marigolds”, The main character Lizabeth, is surrounded by an abundance of environmental factors, as she struggles with own internal conflict of coming to terms that her reign of innocence is slowly fading away. As the story continues, Lizabeth’s environmental factors are exposed, and as a result of these factors, she commits certain actions, in which she faces consequences for. The particular theme that is emitted from this short narrative, is “symbolic experiences that one may experience in life, have a probability of changing aspects in our lives”. This is tied in with main emphasize of exploring in the text how this particular theme is exposed by the characters, setting, and the plot of the story.

Human beings often make permanent decisions based off temporary emotions. Ethan Frome, the protagonist in Edith Wharton’s Ethan Frome, is morally constrained to Zeena, his sickly wife, but is also afflicted by his heartfelt emotions for Mattie Silver. After years of a harsh life with Zeena who he felt he owed, Ethan comes to believe that his greatest chance at a happy life is with Mattie Silver. However, in the end Mattie's other side, one which is extremely similar to Zeena's attitude, comes to rise, after an unsuccessful suicide attempt. Edith Wharton makes an ironic tribute to the book by presenting contrasting personas, including physical appearance and attitudes to describe Zeena Frome and Mattie Silver, but also adduces

As the engineer-narrator opens the story of Ethan Frome's tragedy, the reader is quickly made aware that the novel is made up of an expanding series of opposing images and symbols and that the setting is not just a physical place, but also a moral landscape. Mattie Silver's role representative of unrestricted, natural emotions is made all the more clear by Contrast with Zeena, who rules her husband and Mattie with something of a tyranny, as the embodiment of acquired reason and conscience which check them “like the jerk of a chain”(p.3). Furthermore, there is an unmistakeable correspondence between the physical setting of the “outcropping granite,” the bleak and barren village of New England, where the characters move round like ghosts, and the moral

It is arguable that Tess’ passive nature renders her responsible for her suffering. Tess is ‘asleep at almost every important part of the plot, for example when Prince is impaled when she rides in place of her father . This mistake foreshadows later events between Tess and Alec. When Alec seduces, or rapes Tess, Hardy writes that ‘his cheek was upon hers. She was sleeping soundly’. Tess is acted upon, and does nothing herself. Tess’ lack of aggresion is further shown in her relationship with Angel. When Angel embraces her, and she is said to have ‘yielded to his embrace’, Tess allows herself to be loved opening herself to Angels hidden crueltys. Tess essentially sells herself to Angel saying: “you know best what my punishment should be” . There

Throughout the book How to Read Literature Like a Professor, the author, Thomas C. Foster, discusses many different techniques and concepts to comprehend any literature piece beyond what the literary work provides to its reader. The book helps readers understand literature on a deeper level and evaluates different topics within the realm of literature. From the significance of blind people to the interpretation of symbols, Foster explains variety of points revealed in most literary works. Moreover, he emphasizes the importance of irony and reveals hidden meanings behind words on a page. Foster also establishes two essential concepts dealing with weather symbolism and biblical references which can be found in James Hurst’s short story “The Scarlet Ibis” and George Orwell’s book 1984. “The Scarlet Ibis” manipulates Foster’s concept of weather symbolism to create a sense of depressing mood, to reveal that snow brings inhospitality, and to generate irony out of the situation; likewise, 1984 mimics Foster’s concept of the Bible to use religion to show dysfunction, to symbolize Winston and Julia, and to develop the plot.

What does all this say about the human condition, not just in literature but for ordinary, everyday human beings? Do we have any control over the type of persons we become? Is there a fixed destiny in store for all of us? Some combination of the two? Before these larger questions can be addressed, it is necessary to begin with the texts before us. And in order to learn something about the significance of these moments of vulnerability and breakthrough for these heroes, it is important to establish the respective contexts from which they arise.

From the beginning of the novel 'Tess of the d'Urbervilles' by Thomas Hardy, it is clear that the main character, Tess, is not going to have an easy life. She is

This story enables the readers to feel a lot of emotions, especially at the end of the story. As a reader, one emotion I felt while reading this story was pity towards Tessie. I believe that it was unjustified how her friends and neighbors turned against her

   In the Harlequin romance Time of the Temptress, by Violet Winspear, the author seems to be trying to write an intelligent story of romance, bettered by its literary self-awareness. She fails on both counts. Winspear appears to recognize that more valued literature tends to involve symbolism and allusions to other works. It seems she is trying to use archetypes and allusions in her own novel, but her references to alternate literature and culture are embarrassingly obvious and awkward. Another inter-literary connection, though, is more difficult to notice unless the book is pondered -- something the typical romance reader is not likely to do. Although Winspear

In Thomas Hardy’s Tess of the d’Urbervilles, he writes of a girl named Tess. Tess is a beautiful independent young lady who struggles with bad luck and irresponsibility. Hardy adds to the plot of bad luck by writing about two boys: Angel and Alec who both strive to have Tess’s heart. By the end of the book, it is pretty obvious that neither of the boys deserve Tess, but Hardy wrote this for the readers to decide who was better. This novel creates a feeling of an old-time bachelorette love story that leaves the readers clueless; however, in the end, Angel is a much better candidate for Tess than Alec is.

The rustic characters in Tess of the D'Urbervilles are links to Hardy's life. They are described as hardworking, understanding

Not only this, it was a sin of which he too was guilty – they both had a premarital affair. This leads us to the hypocrisy in the different standards set for men and women. True, this difference was common to the whole society, but Hardy does appear to be a pioneer in highlighting the injustice. At the end of phase the fourth, Angel admits to plunging into “eight and fourty hours’ dissipation with a stranger” (page 225). Tess’s forgiveness is immediate. She says: “Oh, Angel – I am almost glad – because now you can forgive me!” (Page 225)

The book of D’Urbervilles, the problems of Tess tend to start when his father comes to know that their family came from ancient family. She experiences pressure which makes her to approach Alec D’Urberville who seduces her. Later they bear a kid together but the kid dies at her infancy stage. Thereafter, Tess falls in love with Angel. She tells her story of D’Urberville to Angel who does not become happy about it because he says she is not pure hence he leaves claiming that D’Urberville may come back to her. Tess becomes desperate up to an extent where she become the mistress of Alec until Angel comes back. Tess kills Alec and escapes with Angel but she is later caught and charged with murder and eventually she is killed. On the other hand Jude has an ambition of joining the university. He is distracted by the village girl and they end up delivering the child together. Later they separate and Jude tries to pursue her dreams and goals (Hardy, 12-14). The university rejects him hence leading him to work as the stonemason. In the process he come to meet his cousin who is more educated and intelligent than him. In the process they start a relationship and finally they end up having kids together. They experience a lot of problems together up to an extent the kid of Arabella kills the kid they have delivered with her cousin. The kid of Arabella finally kills himself. At the end the two separates and her

Thomas Hardy’s Tess of the D’Urbervilles is a novel that follows the story of a young woman by the name of Tess Durbeyfield after her impoverished family learns of their connection to the wealthy D’Urbervilles. Throughout the novel, Tess sacrifices her childhood, innocence, and happiness by leaving her family to accept a job offer, becoming a victim of a rape, and later agreeing to marry her rapist, all in pursuit of economic gain for her family; such sacrifices illuminate Tess’ deep value of her family, despite their selfishness and lack of concern for her well-being. Following the death of the family horse, Tess agrees to visit Mrs D’Urberville at her estate near the town of Trantridge to “claim kin”. She instead meets her libertine son, Alec D’Urberville, who secures her a position as a poultry keeper on Trantridge Farm. Her family urges her to accept the position and Tess’ guilt over the horse’s death and the economic consequences of her family overshadow her apprehensions about Alec as she reluctantly accepts his offer. Moreover, after a few months of working at Trantridge, Tess finds herself in a fight over another worker’s jealousy at Alec’s affection towards her. Alec soon arrives and rescues Tess from the mob, but instead of returning directly home, he allows his horse to wander through the forest until they eventually become lost in the dense fog. Alec leaves Tess to find their bearings and returns to find her asleep. Taking advantage of her vulnerable state, Alec

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