lling of dismal foreboding and doom. Fateful circumstances and tragic coincidences abound in the book. Thomas Hardy wins great reputation in this novel which portrays a poor country girl ruined by bourgeois society. Though Tess fights again and again, she loses everything at last. She loses her family, her beloved and even her own life. She is destined to be like that because no one can change the society in which she lives. In the tragedy, Hardy displays the social issues in that time. “Today, the novel is praised as a courageous call for righting many of the ills Hardy found in Victorian society and as a link between the late-Victorian literature of the end of the nineteenth century and that of the modern era.”(Irving Howe, 1967, p782) In short, Tess of the d’Urbervilles is a great work.
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