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Summary: Confessions led Tess to Heartbreak
Review: A favorite Hardy classic of mine, Tess of the Durbervilles is a haunting look at a lost young woman, who through the harshes of life, including rape and childbirth, is dupped by her husband the day after their wedding has taken place, after they confess to each other of their horrid pasts.
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Summary: Just so tragic!
Review: I can't believe how tragic this book is! I picked up this book with an unexpected decision. The book I was supposed to read was Queen of the Damned, but then I saw this book and the cover appealed to me. So I decided I'll read it. At first it was kinda boring, until the last 1/3 of the book, I was so depressed by it...how fate was toying with them, and how their characteristic had decided their fate............Anywayz, this is truly a wonderful book, either by plot, writing, background, history, religion, describtion, etc etc, it's all with perfection. Read it, even though the beginning part might be kinda boring, it's for you to understand it better. I'd recommend this book to anybody, and if you like tragedies, you definitely *have* to read it!!
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Summary: Strongest Female Character ever created
Review: The tragic story of a young pretty fresh-faced virgin woman hurt and tortured by two men and by the harsh, mean society in which she lives in to attain. Thomas Hardy's most striking & tragic heroine, Tess is a woman of intense vitality and goodness, and posssibly the author's favorite tragic female character.
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Summary: Scary turns for a young Virgin girl's life
Review: A chance discovery by a beautiful peasant lady that descendant from a thought to be dead noble family line of d'Urbervilles is to change the course of her life. Tess Durbeyfield leaves home on the first of her fateful journeys, and meets the ruthless Alec d'Urberville. Whom rapes her, as she suffers with the consequences of the attack.
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Summary: Rippling Emotions Conquer Readers
Review: The world-renown greatest pessimistic writer, Thomas Hardy, has produced a weak, vulnerable, yet brave hearted female by the name of Tess, to accept and conquer her heart and pains. The death and love she feels, will make you want to rip your heart out. This is comparable to Jane Eyre, The Awakening, Madame Bovary, and many other first-female characters who have to overcome their hearts to understand and grasp the truth of life.
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Summary: BEAUTY
Review: Tess of the Durbervilles is a true great work of literature, one England writers and citizens can be proud of. Tess is a vulnerable, yet sweet and gentle young woman, who fell into the wrong hands, at the wrong time of lifee.
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Summary: Beauty is an Enemy to the less fortunate
Review: Because of her fresh beauty- think Uma Thurman-she is pursued. Because of her sex- female gender- she is helpless. Because of her helplessness-being in female form- she is taken. She then is captured & violated. Because she is violated she is ruined. Yet, still a pure woman
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Summary: The Purest Woman of all, though with her faults
Review: Tess of the Dubervilles is a classic novel that deserves much more credit than it is given. The average Stephen King/Sandra Brown reader will not be one that should read Tess, especially if they don't order Classic Novels on their dinner menu. Tess is a tragic story about a tragic young female, who at glance may seen mentally insane/disturbed, but if you read deeply enough, feel her emotions, you'll know that she's just as sane as any one of us, she's a pure woman.
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Summary: The book was boring, because of its victorian ideals.
Review: Tess was a very boring book. From an analytical point, the book's major theme was FATE. However, you must be interested in the victorian era, in order to enjoy the book. It is the same thing with the Scarlet Letter, to enjoy the book you must know about the time era. The problems that the characters are faced with in the book are laughable by todays standards.
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Summary: Hardy's Dead, but he's still alive in Writing
Review: A compeling and creepy classical fiction to read. It felt like I was doing something wrong by reading Tess, even though I did not have a reason to believe why. But the bottom line's that, from the first chapter until the last, you'll feel as if there's someone standing behind you, ready to hurt you. Your spirit feels free, that's what Thomas Hardy can do to you as a person.
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