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Tess of the d'Ubervilles
Title: Tess of the d'Ubervilles
Category: Literature / English
Details: Words: 1633 | Pages: 6.9 (approximately 235 words/page)
Tess of the d'Ubervilles
To what extent is Tess a true tragic heroine?
Tess of the d'Urbervilles follows Tess through the last stages of her life. The reader is witness to the starting point of her eventual downfall, Alec raping her and the ramifications of that on the rest of her life. As the novel progresses, the reader learns more about Tess' true nature and how her end comes about because of the imposition of conventional values on her …showed first 75 words of 1633 total…
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…showed last 75 words of 1633 total…changed man and her family's welfare is secure.
Bibliography
Dale Cramer, Thomas Hardy: The Forms of Tragedy, Macmillian Press 1990
Hands, T., Writers in Their Time: Thomas Hardy, Macmillian Press Ltd, London, 1995
Kramer, D., Landmarks of World Literature: Hardy - Tess of the d'Ubervilles, Cambridge University Press, Great Britain, 1991
Boumbela, P., Thomas Hardy and Women, Brighton, 1982
Draper, R. P. (ed.), Thomas Hardy: The Tragic Novels, London, 1975
Laird, J. T., The Shaping of Tess of the d'Urbervilles, Oxford, 1975
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