Tess of the D'Urbervilles
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- Exposition
- Tess execution
- Rising Action
- Tess seduced by Alec when horse killed by Tess accidentally
- Conflict
- Her child's death
- Falling in love with Angel Clare
- Tess is the protagonist, a tragic heroine of the novel executed because of killing her seduce in the depression of injustice. She is a victim of series of misfortunes which gradually destroy her and her death was a hypocritical moral of story.
- Climax
- Tess’s family’s revelation that they are old English nobility, giving them all fantasies of a better station in life; her coincidental killing of the family horse, which drives her to look for offer assistance from the d’Urbervilles, where she is seduced and dishonored.
- Falling Action
- Clare's realization for Tess and he come back for her when she got married with Alec.
- The major conflict is that Tess is tempted, impregnated, and surrendered by the child of Alec, son of her upper-class patroness, all that making her unacceptable to her genuine adore towards Angel afterward in life.
- Resolution
- Killed her culprit
- Marriage with her sister after her execution.
- Tess’s new spouse finds her earlier tempted by Alec and chooses to take off her, going off to Brazil and not replying to her letters, and bringing Tess to lose hope.
- Angel is going to Brazil and leaving her because of her past
- Tess’s last-ditch choice to wed Alec, who claims to cherish her; Angel’s return from Brazil to find Tess's marriage to her previous seducer, and his meeting with Tess; Tess’s kill of Alec and short-lived escape with Clare before being apprehended and executed.
- The ultimate resolution within the ending of this novel is Angel's potential marriage to Liza-Lu. When they're at Stonehenge, just before Tess is captured because of murder accusation, she asks Angel to wed her younger sister after she executed.
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