Tess of D'Urberville is a film based on a novel by Thomas Hardy. The story involves a young girl named Tess who will be the victim, prey, and sometimes lover of many men. She will go through all of this without ever understanding what those men want from her. The first man in her life is her father, whose name is John Durbeyfield. He was a drunken farmer. Giovanni discovers from the local parish priest that he is related to the local noble d'Urbervilles family. Upon discovering this information, the farmer and his wife immediately send their beautiful daughter, Tess, to meet and introduce the d'Urbervilles and, if all works out, win a place in their family. Tess is almost immediately seduced by one of her cousins. . She became pregnant, but her son died soon after birth. He never tells his cousin that their baby is dead. But later, after falling in love with the son of a local minister and marrying him, she will confess her past. This is too much for her new husband to deal with. He "married" because he was attracted by Tess's humble origins. Back then, men married into lower classes if the women were beautiful because it would make the man look beautiful. Obviously women were not very respected. But he is unwilling to accept the reality of his past. He leaves for a bizarre mission in South America. While on a mission in South America, Tess must perform hard manual labor for pennies an hour. He eventually reunites with his cousin, who isn't a complete bastard. She complains that he should have been informed of her pregnancy. Become his lover. Then her new husband returns, and the physical and psychological competition for Tess ends in tragedy. Tess of the d'Urbervil... middle of paper... One truth we learn about human nature is that men often use women for their looks because that's the only thing that attracts them. As soon as women lose their beauty, or if beauty comes with too much baggage, men withdraw leaving women hurt. Another truth we learn about human nature is that people are so quick to judge someone without knowing them. An example is in high school classrooms, when a student might ask a question that everyone already knows can be labeled stupid or slow. Maybe the child wasn't paying attention or maybe he needs to be taught in a different way. The last truth we learn about human nature comes from the past and how badly women were treated back then. Women had no rights and basically had to worship the ground their husband walked on.