Hardy’s Modern Selfhood in Tess of the d’Urbervilles
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This essay aims to read Tess of the d’Urbervilles’ in view of modern selfhood written in the advent of modern world. As a Victorian character, Alex and Tess witness the turbulent era in which the conventional belief loses its ground and the massive product of things was visible; it is the time the rapid movement in terms of time and space occurred. Angel and Tess in the novel, daringly liberal modern characters (especially Angel) quite unable to identify themselves in their rural society, drift away from their family and society. They do not fit in their conventional community but cannot totally free themselves from it. This in-betweeness creates a polarity in their mind and get them tangled with mishaps imposed by what Hardy calls Chance from which they recognise in the end they cannot get away in their mortal life. Hardy’s characters, like Hardy himself in 19 century show a typical 20 century modern man who lives in a doubleness between a free person from where he used to be, and a man who delays the departure from what he used be. They remain stuck and suffering. They are not a tragic fool but very close to it.
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This essay aims to read Tess of the d’Urbervilles’ in view of modern selfhood written in the advent of modern world. As a Victorian character, Alex and Tess witness the turbulent era in which the conventional belief loses its ground and the massive product of things was visible; it is the time the rapid movement in terms of time and space occurred. Angel and Tess in the novel, daringly liberal modern characters (especially Angel) quite unable to identify themselves in their rural society, drift away from their family and society. They do not fit in their conventional community but cannot totally free themselves from it. This in-betweeness creates a polarity in their mind and get them tangled with mishaps imposed by what Hardy calls Chance from which they recognise in the end they cannot get away in their mortal life. Hardy’s characters, like Hardy himself in 19 century show a typical 20 century modern man who lives in a doubleness between a free person from where he used to be, and a man who delays the departure from what he used be. They remain stuck and suffering. They are not a tragic fool but very close to it.
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