Blaming External Pressure for the Tragic Decline of Tess in Tess of the

Blaming External Pressure for the Tragic Decline of Tess in Tess of the DUrbervilles From the beginning of the falsehood Tess of the dUrbervilles by Thomas Hardy, it is clear that the main character, Tess, is not going to drop an easy life. She isdeliberately targeted by cruel Immortals as their sadisticplaything. This is symbolized during the union dance, where Tess isone of the white company but is the only one to eat up a bright redribbon in her hair. The mark of tune is on her from the start.Whilst Tess is going to market she inadvertently kills the familyshorse. Her own guilt for this accidental death is the first stage in along serial of incidents leading to Tesss tragic death at the turn back ofthe novel.Social and environmental pressures rank high on the list of causes ofTesss tragedy. In the late nineteenth century there were many changestaking place in bucolic England. The advances achieved as a result ofthe Industrial Revolution meant that even in the countryside farmingwas becoming mechanized and there were fewer manual jab jobs forthe simple peasant people to do. This meant many people had to leavetheir townspeople where they had spent most of their lives to go and find release. So, for example, the Durbeyfields departing from Marlott afterthe death of Sir magic trick, was only part of a greater rural upheaval.Tesss search for work to make up for the loss of her familys horseled her to the sinister and blatantly predatory Alec dUrberville whoshe initi every last(predicate)y thought was a relative. The sexual double standards ordinary of late Victorian society were also clear at this point.Females who sinned paying(a) a much higher social price for their mistakes.But Tess did not want to sin - she was pres... ... reach Stonehenge it is obvious thatTesss life of never terminate pain and suffering will soon be over.Stonehenge is significant as it was a place for sacrifices in pagantimes. The cruel Immortals watch at last brought Tess to the place ofsacrifice - they will soon end their sadistic sport.I conclude that Hardy wrote this book to show that individuals haveno control over their lives, but are at the lenience of impersonal andinexorable forces, as stated in the resource notes to the Cambridge adaptation of the novel. From the beginning Tesss destiny was mappedout. She was born to suffer and eventually die. Tess was in the end avictim of the circumstances of late Victorian rural society, with allits cruel discrimination against erring females, but even more so ofcruel supernatural forces who had marked her out as their victim fromthe beginning.