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In the closing paragraph why hardys said that justice was done?

In the closing paragraph hardys tone is tired and unimpassioned one suggests
that narrators weariness with the ways of the world as if quite familiar with the
fact that life always unfolds in this way nothing great is achieved by this finesse:
the two figures of liza lu and angels went on at the end just as life itself will go
on. Ignorance rules, rather than understanding: the dUrbervilles ancestors who
cause the tragedy are not even moved from their slumber, blithely unaffected by
the agony and death of one of their own line. Tesss tale has not been a climatic
unfolding.
In this sense, there is great irony in hardys reference to the green tragedian.
Aeschylus since we feel tragedy should be more impassioned, like the
Prometheus bound referred to here. Prometheus bound dared to steal fire from
the gods for the benefit of men, this improving human life, but he was punished
by eternal agony sent by the president of the gods here just as hardys justice is
placed in ironic quotation marks since it seemed deeply in just to punish
Prometheus so severely. It is hard to know whether Tess has brought any
benefits to anyone. In any case hardy shunts that Tesss life may have a mythical
and tragic importance like that of Prometheus but it is up to us to judge how
ironic this justice is or what her lifes importance might be.

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