Tess’ Naivety: A Critical Study of Tragic Flaw in Tess of D’Urbervilles

Abstract

This paper throws light on the tragic character Tess of Hardy’s famous novel Tess of the D’Urbervilles. This study analyses Tess through character personality and social background. Tess beauty, innocence and pure Nature attracted her audience. Her problems and tragic death are unforgettable. Forces of capitalism, unjust law, hypocritic morality affected her naivety. Patriarchal system, carelessness of her father, fate, her own tragic flaw of naivety paves the way of her tragedy. Social force which is fate and internal flaw that is naivety play important role in downfall. She was not a spokesperson for her rights because of flaw of naivety in her personality. She is the one of the victims of sorrow. This study was attempted through close reading method of text that have quantitative nature. Different aspects where her naivety affected by society have been discussed in detail. Researchers came to conclusion that Tess is a ruined girl because of tragic flaw of naivety and her tragedy is fateful.

Keywords:  Unforgettable, Capitalism, Hypocrital, Naivety, Patriarchal

Keywords

Unforgettable, Capitalism, Hypocrital, Naivety, Patriarchal

References

Aiman, T. (2022). Tess’ Naivety: A Critical Study of Tragic Flaw in Tess of the D’Urbervilles. In Proceedings of the All World Muslim Educational Conference (AWMEC’22) (p. 27). IJSmart Publishing.

Editors and Affiliations

Tahseen Aiman

University of Thal Bhakker, Pakistan; Email: tahseenaiman123@gmail.com 

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About this paper

this study was attempted through close reading method of text that have quantitative nature. Different aspects where her naivety affected by society have been discussed in detail. Researchers came to conclusion that Tess is a ruined girl because of tragic flaw of naivety and her tragedy is fateful.