#alec d'urberville

[unpopularopinioncraig]

Swear to god, I’ve never wanted to kick two men harder in the dick that I do with Alec D’Urberville and Angel Clare from Tess of the D’Urbervilles.

[epifaniacintilante]

Tess of The D'Ubervilles - Thomas Hardy

[pintsofguinnesmakeyoustrong]

reading tess of the d'urbervilles. i hate this guy so much its unreal

[oidheadh-con-culainn]

i want to say this situation would have been resolved if i'd just dated both of them but it absolutely 100% would not have been and that would definitely have made everything worse

fortunately in the end i didn't date either of them but god it was a near miss with trench coat guy and he was nothing if not persistent

okay actually my most Evangelical Adolescence story is just the sheer youth group drama that went down when I was fifteen. our church and one of the other churches in the area did like, paired youth group stuff. i had a really close (male) friend in that other youth group and we used to be super tactile with each other – sit snuggled together on the sofa, hug a lot, whatever. OBVIOUSLY because we did this at house group or whatever, the youth group girlies started a rumour we were dating, INCLUDING the new pastor's daughter, who i barely knew because her dad had only just become our pastor. (i hated her at this point)

anyway this was actually big drama because i had just broken this friend's heart by kind of having a thing with his best friend and it turned out he'd been in love with me the whole time lmfao. but the youth group wouldn't shut up about us dating so in order to dispel that particular rumour i invited the other guy to go *to my friend's church* with me (instead of mine) one sunday and act like we were dating the whole time since they were gonna talk about me anyway so i might as well give them something to talk about

so he shows up in this big leather trench coat like he's in the fucking matrix and makes it clear he's at least 60% an atheist, and we're basically holding hands the entire way through the service, etc, etc. word gets back to the youth group, obviously. the drama was immense. truly our weird love triangle situation occupied two entire baptist church youth groups for like, at least a month

[detective-inspector-hardy]

Have you read Tess of the D'Urbervilles? It features an evil character named Alec. Is that why you don't like your first name?

i have not.... tess and alec? really?

[kiss-me-over-the-garden-gate]

I'm rereading Tess of the D'Urbervilles and I thought I'd find I liked it less than when I first read it in college but I think I might like it more. Alec D'Urberville is even more creepy and clearly rape-y than I recognized him as back then, and despite knowing how Angel Clare breaks Tess' heart, I can't help but fall for him anyway along with Tess. Having reread it, though, I think anyone who thinks Tess was seduced by Alec instead of raped is a fool, she clearly hated him.

[ilpanettone]

i want to open chris cribnall's brain and understand why he chose the name alec hardy. and tess henchard. it couldn't have been a coincidence like everyone who's ever visited dorset has read tess of the d'urbervilles and you don't talk about that county and accidentally call a character hardy and the area wessex. was it ironic. it doesn't feel like a very good joke

[bluehome91]

In Roman Polanski's take on "Tess of the D'Urbervilles," impressionable young Tess (Nastassja Kinski) is sent by her alcoholic father to visit her rich relatives and apply for a job. She's taken in and immediately seduced by her cousin, Alec (Leigh Lawson), who leaves her pregnant. She keeps it to herself and, after the child dies, begins a relationship with a respectable farmer, Angel (Peter Firth). They marry, but when Angel learns of her speckled past, he's not sure he can live with it.

[madcapislostinthebooks]

Just finished reading Tess of the D'urbervilles by Thomas Hardy. It's really good. It starts off with the rape of an innocent girl who just wants to find work and help her family. Hardy gets into the mindset very well of someone who has been through a traumatic experience. Tess says home doesn't feel like home. And after she loses the child after a week of life her home where she lived so innocently feels hollow.

She then moves on and finds work at a dairy farm. She falls in love with Angel Clare. A good amount is spent on the chase. Then finally they get married. On their wedding night Clare confesses to some infidelity he experienced years before. Tess, feeling like he will be more open to her past, talks about the rape. He is not happy. After 3 days of marriage (and no consummation) tess goes back to her parents and Clare goes visits with his.

Clare sees an ad for farmers to come to Brazil and make farms there. So he goes there. While he is there he had different perspectives. He also almost dies. He is gone for a year and a half.

While Clare is doing his thing in Brazil, Tess is doing what she can. Now that she is married to a gentleman her parents are asking her for money. She also feels awkward being at the house. So she leaves and goes find work to also support her parents and younger siblings.

While she is working away a long distance from home and her in-laws, her rapist (Alec) is in town. He became a born again Christian and now goes around pontificating. He is tempted by Tess and harrases her relentless. But he is blaming her for being tempted. And holds her family hardships over her head as a form of control.

In spring (Clare has been away for a year and no word from him) her parents get sick and her father dies. Because his name was on the lease the family is forced to leave. The lodging they are going to was mistakenly given to someone else and so Tess, her mom, and young siblings are left outdoors in the spring. Alec knows the hardships and since he has the money he puts the family up but he has to have Tess. With all the abuse over the months he has convinced her that Clare is never coming back.

In early summer Clare comes back. He is sickly from the trip but determined to find his wife after finally receiving her letters. He finds her in a stately home where she is living with Alec. As she has gotten back with Alec. When she sees Clare at the door she confronts Alec and he mocks her. She stabs him.

She and Clare walk for weeks enjoying each other. And she feels like she can finally experience happiness. But she knows it's not ment to last as the police are looking for her and she feels like she doesn't deserve happiness. They find Her and Clare on Stonehenge and she goes willingly knowing she has experienced true happiness.

She is hanged for her crimes. And everyone moves on with their lives.

[talesofpassingtime]

She bent forward, at which each diamond on her neck gave a sinister wink like a toad’s; and pressing her forehead against his temple she entered on her story of her acquaintance with Alec d’Urberville and its results, murmuring the words without flinching, and with her eyelids drooping down.

-- Thomas Hardy, Tess of the D'urbervilles

[werewolfetone]

Hmmmm I wonder if the same person responsible for Eponine "the prostitute who attracts Marius" Thenardier is also responsible for Alec "sympathetic actually" d'Urberville.

[thestrangegirl091200]

A moodboard for Tess of the D'Urbervilles by Thomas Hardy.

Pictures not mine.

[aquitainequeen]

Rule of thumb in various types of media; if someone tells you that you make them forget their god, you run like the devil. We’re talking 1/3 thwarted religious devotion, 1/3 fear and 1/3 self-loathing. Never a good combination. Become someone else’s god and they’ll tear you asunder.

[bookish-therapy-blog]

The Maiden

Chapter XI is not one i will soon forget. 

Reading through part one of Thomas Hardy’s famous novel, i was entranced into the world that he created.  When Alec d’Urberville is first introduced, I was very wary on whether he was a character I was going to like or not. Because lets all be honest, we have all fallen for the bad boy that dresses nicely and makes us feel all types of things that we probably should not be feeling. Going through part one Tess and Alec’s relationship was mostly one sided, with Alec constantly making advances towards Tess, but Tess always pushing him away, and as I read I genuinely started feeling for him, but he quickly made me regret those feelings. I read the last few paragraphs of part 1 and had to drop the book and really contemplate even picking it back up. He completely took advantage of her sexually and was seriously trying to make himself feel better by basically saying well I am sure her ancestors have done worse to many women in the past so maybe this is the world’s way of making her pay for their mistakes. Alec d’Urberville, there is a special place in hell for men like you and i hope to god that you pay tremendously for your actions.  I am on to part 2 of the books so lets hope he gets exactly what he deserves! 

[fiftyshadesoftheday]

'It seemed appropriate. I could hold you to some impossibly high ideal like Angel Clare or debase you completely like Alec d'Urberville,' he murmurs, and his eyes flash dark and dangerous.   'If there are only two choices, I'll take the debasement.'

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[rapturousrot]

Tess of the D’Urbervilles (1998) dir. Ian Sharp