"Fire Can Burn" on Thomas Hardy's Tess of the d'Urbervilles. An essay arguing that Tess is _not_ a victim of cosmic irony.
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man, in trying to improve life around him, only manages to partake in its decline, without being able to change the most fundamental reality of this world: if you are not focused and you play with fire, you will get burned. Works Cited Hardy, Thomas. Tess of the d'Urbervilles. Broadview Press, Maier Edition, 1998 Millgate, Michael. Thomas Hardy: A Biography. Random House, 1982. http://www.crescentmoon.org.uk/cresmothomashardy http://www.litnotes.co.uk/irony__satire.htm
man, in trying to improve life around him, only manages to partake in its decline, without being able to change the most fundamental reality of this world: if you are not focused and you play with fire, you will get burned. Works Cited Hardy, Thomas. Tess of the d'Urbervilles. Broadview Press, Maier Edition, 1998 Millgate, Michael. Thomas Hardy: A Biography. Random House, 1982. http://www.crescentmoon.org.uk/cresmothomashardy http://www.litnotes.co.uk/irony__satire.htm