The Role Of Fate In Tess Of The D’urbervilles

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Discuss The Role Of Fate In Tess Of The D’urbervilles.

An important aspect of Thomas Hardy‘s (1840-1928) novel “Tess of the D’urbervilles” (1992) is the role of fate that makes Tess unforgettable and significant. The novel shows the role of fate in Tess’s life as a victim of the so-called grip of fate. Whatever she does in her life to improve her poor condition has no positive result because everything in his life is pre-planned and determined by fate.

Three Phases Of Tess’s Life: Tess’s life may be divided into different stages due to various traumatic situations in her life, but it would be easy to limit Tess’s life to three stages: her life in her parents’ home, separation from her parents and boyfriend, and finally tragic ending of her life.

The First Stage Of The Parental Home: Tess belongs to a low-income family where she is the eldest daughter on whom all the home responsibilities depend. As the family’s eldest daughter, she has to take care of her younger siblings and household chores. On the other hand, her father is a drunkard who does not care for Tess and the family. He does nothing to ignore his poor condition. 

Tess is well aware of her father’s irresponsible behaviour. So, she decided to help her family with the family business. Her decision to help the family reflects her responsible attitude towards improving the family’s socio-economic condition. When Tess learns of her father’s drunken state, she immediately realizes that her father is physically and mentally unable to deliver a load of beehives to the market within a few hours. When Tess and her brother, Abraham, go to the market, their horse, Prince, collides with a local mail cart, and the horse dies in the incident. This is the first episode of her life, which ends with the death of the Prince. The ending of this episode takes Tess’s life to the second episode, which is full of struggles and sorrows.

The Helpless Inception Of The Second Stage: After the death of the horse,