All 3 Uses of
fatalistic
in
Tess of the d'Urbervilles
- As Tess's own people down in those retreats are never tired of saying among each other in their fatalistic way: "It was to be."†
Chpt 1 *
- They were generous young souls; they had been reared in the lonely country nooks where fatalism is a strong sentiment, and they did not blame her.†
Chpt 3
- Her naturally bright intelligence had begun to admit the fatalistic convictions common to field-folk and those who associate more extensively with natural phenomena than with their fellow-creatures; and she accordingly drifted into that passive responsiveness to all things her lover suggested, characteristic of the frame of mind.†
Chpt 4
Definition:
one who believes that all events are predetermined in advance and human beings are powerless to change them