The Flame of The Pure Life
“You almost make me say you are an unapprehending peasant woman, who have never been initiated into the proportions of social things. You don’t know what you say.”
“I am only a peasant by position, not by nature.” – Hardy, “Tess of the d’Urbervilles”
Not just a daring woman, but as a strong, pure and unique individual with her own complexity, Tess stands tall against the constraints which encompasses contemporary people, culture, and society in the story. The quotation depicts the moment, which can be truly awful to someone who is insulted by the other with her social status that she does not even have options to choose but options given by the society. For the words of Tess above, she speaks with her impulse …show more content…
Like skin color, one’s status seems to be given automatically even before she sees the light of the world out of mother’s womb. Absurdly, people have despised others with this kind of things that people could not actually change or choose. During the Victorian time period that this novel depicts, it seems all people, saying ‘this is the way it is.’ But Tess, as one of the most purest human beings in nineteenth-century British literature, stands up against the cruel contemporary society, which is full of hypocrisy. Through his heroine Tess, Hardy delivers the pure and true characteristics of a woman who goes beyond the boundaries of social class, education, and …show more content…
Ironically, his love for Tess comes simply with her tragic destiny. As in Darwinism, which Hardy was known to be deeply interested in, nature selection is cruel since only the strongest and well-adapted ones in the harsh environment can survive. Hardy depicts Tess as the strong one who keeps moving forward against the brutal difficulties in her fate and the society of colossal absurdity with the sexual double standard. Likewise, the existence of villain Alec also assists the existence of Tess. Even though Alec reaches to her as if the snake once did to Eve in the Bible, she only can exist as a pure being because of his existence as an evil character. As human body is destroyed without gravity, difficulties are ironically the essentials for human to grow up. Alec, in the case, comes as a necessary evil for Tess to fully exist with her exalted spirit. Hardy implicitly criticizes the contemporary; Victorian notion of female purity and shows Tess as the one who refuses that her fate controls who she is and everything. Even though she dies on the scaffold, her attitude and spirit shout out to the contemporary people and the contemporary thought. Tess, as candlelight, ignites herself to light up around her. the flame of her life is likely to make others to consider what the true human value is and make them look back what they have
“You almost make me say you are an unapprehending peasant woman, who have never been initiated into the proportions of social things. You don’t know what you say.”
“I am only a peasant by position, not by nature.” – Hardy, “Tess of the d’Urbervilles”
Not just a daring woman, but as a strong, pure and unique individual with her own complexity, Tess stands tall against the constraints which encompasses contemporary people, culture, and society in the story. The quotation depicts the moment, which can be truly awful to someone who is insulted by the other with her social status that she does not even have options to choose but options given by the society. For the words of Tess above, she speaks with her impulse …show more content…
Like skin color, one’s status seems to be given automatically even before she sees the light of the world out of mother’s womb. Absurdly, people have despised others with this kind of things that people could not actually change or choose. During the Victorian time period that this novel depicts, it seems all people, saying ‘this is the way it is.’ But Tess, as one of the most purest human beings in nineteenth-century British literature, stands up against the cruel contemporary society, which is full of hypocrisy. Through his heroine Tess, Hardy delivers the pure and true characteristics of a woman who goes beyond the boundaries of social class, education, and …show more content…
Ironically, his love for Tess comes simply with her tragic destiny. As in Darwinism, which Hardy was known to be deeply interested in, nature selection is cruel since only the strongest and well-adapted ones in the harsh environment can survive. Hardy depicts Tess as the strong one who keeps moving forward against the brutal difficulties in her fate and the society of colossal absurdity with the sexual double standard. Likewise, the existence of villain Alec also assists the existence of Tess. Even though Alec reaches to her as if the snake once did to Eve in the Bible, she only can exist as a pure being because of his existence as an evil character. As human body is destroyed without gravity, difficulties are ironically the essentials for human to grow up. Alec, in the case, comes as a necessary evil for Tess to fully exist with her exalted spirit. Hardy implicitly criticizes the contemporary; Victorian notion of female purity and shows Tess as the one who refuses that her fate controls who she is and everything. Even though she dies on the scaffold, her attitude and spirit shout out to the contemporary people and the contemporary thought. Tess, as candlelight, ignites herself to light up around her. the flame of her life is likely to make others to consider what the true human value is and make them look back what they have