Review
Tomas Hardy's Tess of the Urbervilles is a piercing Victorian targedy that exposes the hypocrisy of 19-the-cenyury moral codes through the life of its targic heroine, Tess Durbeyfiled. A pure, hardwarking peasant girl, Tess is doomed by a false noble lineage that leads her to Alec d'sUrberville, whose cruelty ribs her of her innocence. Her later love with the idealistic Angel Clare brings fleeting hope, yet his rigid moral beliefs drive him to abandon her upon learning her past, pusing Tess into depair and a fatal end.
Hardy crafts Tess as a symbol of innocent virtue failed by society, challenging Victorian double standards that judge Woman Faithfully Presented, Hardy defines his era's biases, making this novel a timeless critique of a world that values reputatio over humanity. It remains a haunting portraits of injustice and lost innocence.
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