They fall in love with each other. They are about to be married when Jane breaks the engagement on the wedding day, learning that Mr. Rochester has a wife. Shocked by the news, Jane flees from the house. She goes through a lot of hardships. During the time, a great misfortune befalls Mr. Rochester. Hearing that Mr. Rochester is penniless and disable, Jane hurries to him and becomes his wife.
Tess, a poor peasant's daughter, is good--natured, industrious and innocent. The poverty of the family forces her to claim kinship with the sham but rich Alec, the young master of the D'Urbervilles, where she is seduced by him. Tess returns home calmly and later gives birth to a baby, who dies soon. Then she leaves home to work on a dairy farm, and she meets Angel Clare. The two fall in love with each other. On the wedding night, Angel makes a comment of his past dissipation and readily forgiven by Tess. But when Tess reveals herself, Angel just wouldn't forgive her and deserts her that night. Suffering these great hardships, she still keeps silent. She feels helpless and hopeless to wander from place to place. But God seems unsympathetic; her father’s death transfers the whole burden of the family on her and she has to stay with Alec again. Before long the repentant Angel returns from abroad. Tess makes all the blames of her unhappiness on Alec, and kills him. She flees with Angel but finally arrested and then hanged.