The False Reality Of Coincidentialism

You know when good literature is lost by when its very realism of chance is lost as well as the cold hard facts of life. The coincidences Thomas Hardy failed to use to save Tess in Tess of the D’Urbervilles makes it more realistic than Jane Eyre by Charlotte Brontë, Tom Jones by Henry Fielding, and Persuasion by Jane Austen. These other novels have the element of coincidence rippling through out themselves to such …

…to be seen. Both acts are bad, but just because one is of a lesser degree in how bad the action is, it should, and can not be forgiven. Tom just seems to always get off. Again, it is not like this in real life. Tess gets caught and is put to death for the murder of Alec, which is moe realistic than Tom almost being hung and then saved by his mother’s letter.