r most persistent predator, she runs away to find peace and freedom from her past mistakes and finds her home on a farm that is called Talbothays. Here we meet a different type of threat or a wolf in sheep's clothing. Angel although anything but heavenly, begins his self-motivated "hunt" to capture Tess's heart. Although wary of his loving compliments and unsure of his confident advances, Tess meekly begins warming to his growing admiration. Throughout Angel's courtship of Tess she is overly aware of her past sin and constantly fights with herself that she cannot marry another man and keep him from falling for another "pure" woman. Instead of being so conscientious about how society feels about her, Tess should be more concerned with how she feels about herself. When Tess finally "turns her boat against the current" and takes a stand for wheat she believes in, she is ultimately destroyed by humankind. No matter where she turned or whom she tried to please, society finally won the battle and in the end, there was nothing left. The harder we try to please people and fit in to the patterns of life others have set the further back we fall, the emptier we feel. We all began as simple, selfish people and from that we will never detour.In Hardy's character, Alec d'Uberville, we find the unmistakable reason in which we are unable, no matter how hard we try to overcome our barbaric nature. d'Uberville lies wait to prey upon a young girl and uses her for his own fulfillment. He writes to her posed as his own mother to offer her a job stares rudely at her and feed her fruit and compliments. He catchers her young and defenseless and maliciously takes advantage of her. He doesn't stop there but continually stalks her consciously and unconsciously until his dying day. Alec represents the evil in this world, the unrelenting force in this civilization that keeps us from ever pursuing our dreams of unity and agape love. Presented here as ...
