How Hardy Shows Tess D'Urberville As A Pure Woman
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silvergatex (student)
Pure Woman Tess Tess who is a copulated girl, bearer of an illegitimate child, religious skeptic and murderer for the society, is given the title of pure woman by Hardy because she never loses her purity because her natural very own being and intentions with she carries out her actions never change in her life despite all the sufferings she experiences. First event which defiles her purity in the eye of the society is her sexual intercourse which Hardy explains as “Why it was that upon this feminine tissue, sensitive as gossamer, and practically blank as snow as yet, there should have been traced such a coarse pattern as it was doomed to receive; why so often the coarse appropriates the finer thus, the wrong man the woman, the wrong woman the man, many thousand years of analytical philosophy