The False Reality Of Coincidentialism
You know when good literature is lost by when its very realism of chance is lost as well as the cold hard facts of life. The coincidences Thomas Hardy failed to use to save Tess in Tess of the D'Urbervilles makes it more realistic than Jane Eyre by Charlotte Brontė, Tom Jones by Henry Fielding, and Persuasion by Jane Austen. These other novels have the element of coincidence rippling through out themselves to such an extent that it looses the realism brought by chance, as well as the main point that Hardy was trying to portray; that life is a constant struggle. You see, when these elements are taken out of a novel, it becomes difficult to understand the absolute connection of our lives to Hardy's view of the universe. First and foremost, Tom Jones is full of coincidental elements. Tom is known to be quite the premisquious individual through out town. In fact he is such a 'player with no care' that he does in fact get caught by the one individual to whom he is trying to show his ultimate love for, Sophie Western. Sophie catches Tom three separate times with three separate women, most of which are not of Tom's best interests either. In the beginning of the novel, Tom is shown to be sleeping with Molly; and by the looks of
Thomas Hardy believed that life is a constant struggle, and that nothing in the universe is easy, and nothing is just handed down to you. As this may be correct, he points out a more important fact of life, that not everything ends up for the better. 168)Now, do not underestimate the coincidences that I have just listed. He quotes "Tom Jones is Fielding's conception of optimum man- but seen entirely from he outside. Of course just as things seem to be already bad enough, her child Sorrow dies. Through out the novel these coincidences keep popping up, and yet others are to idealistically set up. This causes Tess to have to return back to Alec when he offers so. I do not agree with prince charming coming back to rescue the trapped princess merely to show that it can be done, because it rarely ever happens with such ease. This was again not among Hardy's intentions. This does not come near to portraying the same type of reality that Tess of the D'Urbervilles does. After many apologies were said from Tom, finally Tom is forgiven. When she is at Lowood Institution, her only friend ever, Helen, dies.
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