Tess of the D'Urbervilles is a cathartic novel and whosoever goes through it never loses interest in it. The plot revolves around the role of fate and chance in human life and here lies the beauty of the written art. Hardy seems to have believed in the fact that Nature is responsible for all the human failures. It always cast adverse effect on human lives. The gods take humans as sporting thing. <br>As flies to wanton boys;<br>Are we to the gods.<br>Hardy is equally against the orthodox and conservatice concepts in religion. He has presented an ironical contrast of Providence and Religion by depicting Tess as pure and innocent woman being mistreated by the religious society. It was not Tess but the Fate that led her to seduction; And it was Irony of Fate that religious people aggravated the miseries of the forlorn lady and like gods and angels they too did not help her at all.
