Tess Of The D'urbervilles
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SAC Out come 2 – Literature
In "Tess of the D'Urbervilles" Hardy does expose the social injustices and double standards which prevail in the late nineteenth century.
These injustices and double standards are evident throughout the whole novel, and Tess, the main character, is the one who suffers them.
This becomes evident from the first page when Parson Tringham meets Jack Durbeyfield and refers to him as "Sir John". With his whimsical comment, made from the safety of a secure social position, the Parson begins the events which start the destruction and downfall of the whole Durbeyfield family.
Logically the fact that Tess's family and their "gentlefolk" relatives have the same descendents should mean that both sides of the family are equal, but this is not true.
Hardy makes this obvious in the contrast between Tess's mother's dialect and the sense of her words,
"That was all a part of the larry! We've been found to be the greatest gentlefolk in the whole......
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