Theme Of Injustice In Tess Of The D Urbervilles

Register to read the introduction… There seems as though there is hope for Tess after all. Hardy depicts vivid scenes and dialogues as Angel and Tess’s love blossoms. However, when Tess tells Angel of her past with Alec and her baby Sorrow - she is mercilessly deserted by her newly-wedded husband. Angel’s rejection gives her more disappointment than Alec’s sexual violence. This also makes the reader sympathize with another one of Tess’s setbacks. Angel states that “O Tess, forgiveness does not apply to the case! You were one person, now you are another. My God—how can forgiveness meet such a grotesque— prestidigitation as that!” By giving detailed description and narration on Angel’s unfair attitude towards women’s sexuality and on his narrow-minded view on chastity, Hardy relentlessly mocks the hypocrisy of the Victorian moral standards. Injustice in love is delivered to Tess another time in her journey.

Hardy addresses the injustice of social law and the ill effect of male-dominance over women and dramatizes them in the novel through the miserable life of Tess, he evokes sympathy and compassion out of his readers by the gradual decline of Tess’s journey. Death removes Tess from all the misery and pain from conventions and social law. Death brings an end the miserable life filled with setbacks and disasters caused by social prejudices and male