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Tess and Edna Comparison
Title: Tess and Edna Comparison
Category: Literature / English
Details: Words: 947 | Pages: 4.0 (approximately 235 words/page)
Tess and Edna Comparison
The ability of traumatic or hurtful experiences to shape the malleable human spirit is unlimited, the potential a powerful force that can be used for betterment of self or for the casting down into a abysmal chasm of emotional turmoil that forever mars one’s personality. Tess Durbeyfield and Edna Pontellier, in Tess of the D’Urbervilles by Thomas Hardy and The Awakening by Kate Chopin, embody this theme of growth by tribulation. Each is …showed first 75 words of 947 total…
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…showed last 75 words of 947 total…weakness and strength: for example Tess is weak in her decision to end the chase, but strong when she resigns to her fate. Acceptance is incredibly difficult. If, through the ages, Edna met Tess, each might be disgusted with the other, Tess disapproving of Edna’s cold abandonment of her family, Edna disappointed at Tess’s submission to the society and to men. In the end, however, each saw the best path, and took it.
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