Tess of the D'Urbervilles Tess of the D'Urbervilles Essay essay selection number two The Victorian period was generally known as a peaceful and intellectually static era. Thomas Hardy tries diligently to educate the reader on multiple facets of the Victorian era. Hardy uses many sources to illustrate a changing era throughout the novel Tess of the D'Urbervilles. Specifically, the changing society, urbanization, and Darwinism all illustrate his main focus on dialect in nature. One attribute …
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…the era he is writing about. Besides the changing society, Hardy illustrates the changing time frame with urbanization, and most obviously Darwinism. Each of these facets is apparent within the novel Tess of the D'Urbervilles. All of the characters are affected in someway by the three facets mentioned. In this way, the author Thomas Hardy educates the reader of some of the factors that play a role in the changing time frame he wrote of.