What's Wrong with the World?

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This paper discusses the betrayal and hypocrisy found in Victorian society as found in Thomas Hardy's "Tess of the d'Urbervilles." The paper studies the betrayal of Tess by four of the novel's main characters, these characters being Mr. and Mrs. Durbeyfield, Tess' parents, Alec d'Urberville and Angel Clare. The paper describes how Angel's betrayal of Tess is seen as the worst, as it is unexpected and leaves the novel and Victorian society without a hero and the victim without a savior.

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"All's Wrong with the World": Betrayal in Hardy's Tess of the d'Urbervilles In his brilliant, and only, novel, The Picture of Dorian Gray, Oscar Wilde laments the moral, or immoral, actions of the Victorian Age in which he is living. Principally, he shows the eponymous character following all forms of vice while betraying and deceiving those around him, in order to show that sometimes such an age of moral high-ground is not so moral, after all. In one such moment, Dorian has betrayed the young and infatuated Sybil Vane, and is reminiscing on this betrayal that will eventually lead to her death when.."

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