Hardy's Tess of the D'Urbervilles1. Thomas Hardy: His Life and Works 2. Hardy as a Tragic Novelist 3. Hardy's Philosophy 4. Hardy's Pessimism 5. Role of Fate and Chance 6. Limitations of Hardy and Defects in Tess 7. Thomas Hardy as a Regional Novelist 8. Treatment of Nature in Hardy 9. Wessex More than a Setting in Tess 10. Hardy's views on God and Religion 11. Morality, Marriage and Sex in Hardy's Novels 12. Recurrent Motifs in Tess 13. Salient features of Tess of the d'Urbervilles 14. Summary of Tess 15. Hardy's Plot-Construction in Tess 16. Hardy's Characterisation 17. Rustic/Choric Characters 18. Hardy's Heroines with Special Reference to Tess 19. Tess of the d'Urbervilles: A Pure Woman 20. Tess: More Sinned against than Sinning 21. Tess: As a Symbol of Agricultural Community in its Movement of Ruin 22. Irony and Humour in Tess 23. Hardy's Style 24. Symbolism in Tess 25. Imagery in Tess 26. Hardy's Contribution to the Novel Glossary |
Contents
Thomas Hardy His Life and Works | 1 |
Hardy as a Tragic Novelist | 6 |
Hardys Philosophy | 17 |
Hardys Pessimism | 28 |
Role of Fate and Chance | 36 |
Limitations of Hardy and Defects in Tess | 44 |
Thomas Hardy as a Regional Novelist | 51 |
Treatment of Nature in Hardy | 57 |
Recurrent Motifs in Tess | 80 |
Salient features of Tess of the dUrbervilles | 92 |
Summary of Tess | 100 |
Hardys PlotConstruction in Tess | 131 |
Hardys Characterisation | 142 |
RusticChoric Characters | 150 |
Hardys Heroines with Special Reference to Tess | 160 |
Tess of the dUrbervilles A Pure Woman | 166 |
Wessex More than a Setting in Tess | 63 |
Hardys views on God and Religion | 66 |
Morality Marriage and Sex in Hardys Novels | 74 |
More Sinned against than Sinning | 173 |
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Adam and Eve Alec Alec's animal background Bathsheba becomes believed Biblical blood Cause chance events changed Chapter chorus Christianity Clare Clym coincidence Cosmic Irony d'Urbervilles dance David Cecil comments death destiny dialect drama Durbeyfield Elizabeth-Jane Eustacia fate Flintcomb Ash forces forgive girl Greek hand happiness Hardy Hardy's fictional Hardy's novels Hardy's philosophy Hardy's style Henchard heroine human humour imagery improbable indifferent ironically Jude the Obscure King Lear labourers live Lucetta Marlott marriage married Marty Mayor of Casterbridge modern moral motif murder Native nature novelist pagan painter of signs passion pessimism phase plot pre-marital preaching Prince purity Queen of Spades red colour relationship Return rural rustic characters Sandbourne says scene seduction sexual sleeping spirit Stonehenge story strawberries suffer symbol Talbothays Tess and Angel Tess goes Tess's things Thomas Hardy traditional tragedy Trantridge Victorian village virginity Wessex Wildeve woman women words writes