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Hardy, Thomas. Tess of the D'Urbervilles. Dover Thrift, 1912.

Huxley, Aldous. Brave New World.

HarperCollins, 1932.

Woolf, Virginia. The New Dress. 1924,

ebooks.adelaide.edu.au/w/woolf/virginia/w91h/chapter7.html.

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In “The New Dress,” a short story by Virginia Woolf, Mabel Waring deals with the fear of never attaining acceptance, and lets this fear consume her and slowly crush her individualism.
- “why not be original?” (Woolf 1).
- “it was her own appalling inadequacy; her cowardice; her mean, water-sprinkled blood that depressed her,” proving that the only thing making Mabel feel unaccepted is herself (Woolf 1).
- “one of a family of ten; never having money enough, always skimping and paring,” Mabel feels like an outsider at this upper-class party, surrounded by all of the rich, fabulous women around her (Woolf 3).

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The extreme version of the novels Tess of the D'urbervilles and Frankenstein, Brave New World exemplifies the possibility of a society in which individualism is completely eliminated with the promised acceptance of every single person.
- every citizen essentially brainwashed
- smarter citizens aware of their lack of free will, accept it in hopes of belonging
- “when the individual feels, the community reels” (Huxley 94).
- “have got too self-consciously individual to fit into community-life,” from the perfect utopia (Huxley 227).
- “it would upset the whole social order if men started doing things on their own” (Huxley 236).

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Tess Durbeyfield, the main character in the book Tess of the D'urbervilles, represents the epitome of sacrificing free will and physical body in order to belong within society.
- Society and influential people in her life dictate Tess' decisions and she is forced to comply in order to be seen as good in their eyes
- Lets her parents make decisions for her, surrendering free will in terms of not pursuing a profession or anything she is passionate about, spends entire childhood caring for other siblings, takes care of her parents
- Submits her body to the whims of others - in order to belong, in the eyes of society Tess has to live up to everyone else's definition of purity - this leads to her not even being in control of her own body
- Tess “passed the Sixth Standard in the National School under a London-trained mistress, spoke two languages” (Hardy 12).

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Literature lets readers realize that in order to achieve man's greatest desire, acceptance and a sense of belonging, an aspect of individualism must be sacrificed. This sacrifice of self appears in the novels Tess of the D'Urbervilles and Brave New World, as well as in the short story “The New Dress.” The character of Tess exemplifies the surrendering of the physical body and individual decisions; all of the citizens in Brave New World represent a society in which citizens sacrifice everything including their free will and individuality in order to truly belong amongst one another. Finally, in Virginia Woolf's short story, “The New Dress,” readers experience a description of sacrificing individuality and pride driven by the fear of not being accepted.

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Considering that humans' greatest desire is belonging, are we as people forced to give up our sense of free will and individuality in order to truly belong, or can we belong and feel in a place without surrendering to fate?