The Repressed And Afraid Woman In Victorian Patriarchal Society
In Thomas Hardy’s Tess Of The d’Urbervilles
Thomas Hardy’s attention to the monstrous rights of the Victorian era women leads to Hardy’s twelfth novel the Tess Of The d’Urbervilles, show the dilemma of women. By the end of the nineteenth century, some novelists like George Meredith and Thomas Hardy began to pay attention to women problems in that age. Also the women novelists like Jane Austen was seen like heroines by the women readers. After Hardy wrote Tess Of The d’Urbervilles, he took many letters from the women readers. They wanted to see him. Because the novel portrays by the story of Tess, a poor country family girl, who suffers from the male dominated society and its earnings yield. Hardy tells the changing ideas of social class in Victorian England and injustice of law for women in that era. Hardy can be seen as a feminist writer of that era. With his novel Tess, Hardy tries to evoke women consciousness for the sufferings of them. He shows that how women misused and abused by men and it is nonsense to blame women for that. Hardy’s book is stil keep its popularity among women.
In Victorian Era, men can dominate women using power on women just because they are men. Sometimes it is …show more content…
Certainly it is seen that class is no longer classified in Victorian Era as it would have been in the Middle Ages. Blood is not enough to have reputation. In Tess, Hardy examples that issue with Durbeyfields and the d’Urbervilles. Durbeyfields have pure blood but as they are poor, they cannot be upper class. As it seen, Money is more important than blood in Victorian Age and it clarifies how Simon Stokes used his fortune to buy a glorious family name and become Stoke- d’Urbervilles. Their class have changed easily than the Durbeyfields because of the
In Thomas Hardy’s Tess Of The d’Urbervilles
Thomas Hardy’s attention to the monstrous rights of the Victorian era women leads to Hardy’s twelfth novel the Tess Of The d’Urbervilles, show the dilemma of women. By the end of the nineteenth century, some novelists like George Meredith and Thomas Hardy began to pay attention to women problems in that age. Also the women novelists like Jane Austen was seen like heroines by the women readers. After Hardy wrote Tess Of The d’Urbervilles, he took many letters from the women readers. They wanted to see him. Because the novel portrays by the story of Tess, a poor country family girl, who suffers from the male dominated society and its earnings yield. Hardy tells the changing ideas of social class in Victorian England and injustice of law for women in that era. Hardy can be seen as a feminist writer of that era. With his novel Tess, Hardy tries to evoke women consciousness for the sufferings of them. He shows that how women misused and abused by men and it is nonsense to blame women for that. Hardy’s book is stil keep its popularity among women.
In Victorian Era, men can dominate women using power on women just because they are men. Sometimes it is …show more content…
Certainly it is seen that class is no longer classified in Victorian Era as it would have been in the Middle Ages. Blood is not enough to have reputation. In Tess, Hardy examples that issue with Durbeyfields and the d’Urbervilles. Durbeyfields have pure blood but as they are poor, they cannot be upper class. As it seen, Money is more important than blood in Victorian Age and it clarifies how Simon Stokes used his fortune to buy a glorious family name and become Stoke- d’Urbervilles. Their class have changed easily than the Durbeyfields because of the