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‘Tess of the D’Ubervilles’ is a classic tragedy by Thomas Hardy. This novel is about Tess Durbeyfield, a simple country girl who is used by Alec D’Uberville, a wealthy gentleman as a victim of lamentable purpose, and later finds love with Angel Clare who marries her but abandons her on their wedding night when he finds out about her previous history. Tess is left to survive by herself only to run into Alec D’Uberville again, who quickly becomes obsessed with trying to win her back. Tess refuses all of Alec’s advances until he convinces her that Angel will never come back. Angel returns to find her with D’Uberville and is deeply hurt. Tess ends up killing D’Uberville in a fit of despair and she escapes with Angel only to be caught and executed a few days later. The characters in ‘Tess of the D’Ubervilles’, especially Tess, are well-rounded three-dimensional characters (although towards the end of this novel Hardy appears to have grown sick of all the other characters but Tess). Tess is a powerful and beautiful heroine who through out the novel exhibits generosity, resourcefulness, endurance and vulnerability in everything that she does. An example of Tess’ generosity is how she always puts others first.