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tess as a tragic heroine

The child represented her sorrow. After the death of her child she does not become pessimistic but she wants to start her new life with optimism as if the death of the child meant the end of her sorrow. .
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             Her experiences have turned her from girl to woman. She wants to forget about the past and wants to go somewhere where nobody knows her life and secret. In the hope of starting her new life she sets out and she gets to Talbothays where she meets her second love Angel Clare. Her fluty voice attracts him first and he falls in love with Tess. This love seems to be different from the first one because Angel truly loves her. Angel proposes her to marry him and when Tess agrees, her life seems to get into the right way again.
             Tess makes a big mistake when conceals the truth from Angel and with this she loses the opportunity to be happy. Beside the misfortunes she is also responsible for what happens to her. She wants to tell Angel the truth but maybe she is afraid of the offence which can come out of it. She decides to write a letter to him in which she tells him about her shameful past.
             The circumstances are against her because the letter which she wrote slips under the carpet and Angel misses to know the truth. At their wedding night Tess manages to tell him everything about her past but it is too late and Angel turns away from her and he feels that he is no longer able to acknowledge her as his wife.
             Till now we know Tess as an infirm person who is not brave enough to stand for her right. She is not able to refuse Alec, to confess her secret, to tell her family about her relationship with Angel. Her naivety and her lies also help her fate to become tragic. Tess is not so strong to stand on her own and after Angel abandons her, she returns home. Instead of helping, her parents blame her and Tess decides to leave home. As I mentioned above here we can also notice her parents influence on her.


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