Tess Of The D’Urbervilles by Thomas Hardy - Is Tess a Pure Woman? Essay

Thomas Hardys Tess Of The DUrbervilles (A Pure Women) - Do You Agree with Hardys Subtitle, A Pure Women?Tess Of The DUrberville was written by Thomas Hardy in 1891. Tess is the main character who gets exploited by the character, Alec. The question is whether Tess is pure or not. The domainof purity caused a lot of controversy in the overnice times. The dictionarydefinition of the word purity is that if someone is pure they areinnocent, fresh, virtues, chaste and rattling trustworthy. Thomas Hardy English poet and novelist, famous for his dispictions ofthe imaginary county Wessex. Hardys work reflected his stoicalpessimism and sense of tragedy in human life.In the Victorian times you were able to buy names depending onwhether you were rich or not this will show if you have social statusor not. Victorians believed that some(prenominal) man or women having a sexualrelationship or sexual contact before marriage was seen as a sinner.If you pregnant and was not unify society will not accept you theywere very strict and very religious. In the Victorian times there werethree social classes. The Masses, the Nouveax Riches, and the land Gentry.The Masses were the ugly working class, the Nouveax Riches were thepeople who worked in factorys In the city they get the new money andthat is were the name came from, they were hated by the Landed Gentrybecause they were almost the same standard as them, the Landed Gentrywere the rich people who didnt work but got their money from theirancestors (old money).Tess a puppyish cottage girl she was a fine and handsome girl and largeinnocent eyes added eloquence to colour and shape Tess and herfamily were the poor working class and were happy the way they... ...Angel and tells him what she has doneand says that if anything happens to her he has to promise to lookafter her younger sister Liza- lu this shows us that she is veryloving towards her sister and is uncoerced to do anything for herhappiness. Tess is then captured and i s hanged in the last chapter.ConclusionTo conclude I think Tess is a pure woman. I have shown how fate hastaken a major part in her life. Thomas Hardy is a person who wrotemost of his novels in a pessimistic way. His view on life and in womenwas completely different to the rest of the society he reckons thatmen and women should have an equal right. The reason why he wrote APure Woman as his subtitle is because he wanted to put it out to therest of the society and because this is a question everyone wants ananswer to. This subject caused a lot of controversy at the time.