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Introduction

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When Tess of the d’Urbervilles appeared in 1891, Thomas Hardy was one of England’s leading men of letters. He had already authored several well-known novels, […]

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Thomas Hardy

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Thomas Hardy was born in 1840 in the small village in Dorset, an area of southern England steeped in history. One of the local landmarks, […]

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Plot Summary

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A Part One-An Insignificant Incident and Its Consequences Thomas Hardy’s Tess of the d’Urbervilles begins with a seemingly insignificant incident: John Durbeyfield, a middle-aged peddler, […]

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Characters

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A Mercy Chant The only daughter of a friend and neighbor of the Clares, Mercy Chant, is the girl Angel Clare’s parents hope he will […]

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Themes

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A Fate and Chance The Characters in Hardy’s novel of seduction, abandonment, and murder appear to be under the control of a force greater than […]

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Construction

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A Narrator Tess of the d’Urbervilles tells the story of a girl who is seduced and has a child who dies. When she meets another […]

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Historical Perspective

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A Darwin and Social Darwinism The last fifty years of the nineteenth century saw innovations in science and technology that changed society to a greater […]

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Questions

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Imagine Tess’s story taking place in today’s U.S. society and analyze how her story would have ended up differently or the same. Refer to specific […]

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Compare and Contrast

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1890s: The rural population was forced to move toward urban areas as low prices and industrialization of farm equipment made smaller farms less profitable. Today: […]