![]() ![]() ![]() Both are easily content with a life of bare sustenance and simple pleasures, with little care for ambition or reputation and providing just the essentials for their young children. Somewhat unreliable and irresponsible, not to mention a drinker, John has an equal partner in his wife, Joan. John Durbeyfield is a poor peasant from the village of Marlott. When a second chance at life unexpectedly arrives, Tess knows it is futile to try and escape her past, but the possibility of happiness in an otherwise miserable life is a great temptation. Though ‘more sinned against than sinner’, in an unequal society, the damage to her reputation is irredeemable. Tess of the D’Urbervilles is the story of a young woman from a poor family, objectified, harassed and pursued by an older man with wealth and power over her. ![]()
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