A Collision of Vice and Virtue in Thomas Hardy's Tess of the D'Urbervilles: "A Pure Woman Faithfully Presented" or a Fallen Angel

Autor/inn/en	Saleh, Nafiseh Salman; Abbasi, Pyeaam
Titel	A Collision of Vice and Virtue in Thomas Hardy's Tess of the D'Urbervilles: "A Pure Woman Faithfully Presented" or a Fallen Angel
Quelle	In: Advances in Language and Literary Studies, 5 (2014) 3, S.89-94 (6 Seiten) PDF als Volltext kostenfreie Datei Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	2203-4714
Schlagwörter	Nineteenth Century Literature; Novels; Literary Devices; Victorian Literature; Femininity; Fiction; Ideology; Authors; Males + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Novel; Roman; Literaturarbeit; Femaleness; Weiblichkeit; Fiktion; Ideologie; Author; Autor; Autorin; Male; Männliches Geschlecht
Abstract	Heralded as a sympathizer with the oppressed nineteenth century femininity, Thomas Hardy adopted an aggressive stance towards the institutionalized codes of the time, particularly the ideal of femininity which results in presenting him as one of the promethean forerunners of "New Woman" fiction. His outspoken attitudes are tangible in his fictional prose where he valiantly tries to challenge the Victorian ideals of femininity. By creating non-conformist heroines, Hardy took the first step to move away from the constitutionalized codes of the time, particularly on behalf of femininity. In effect, Hardy valiantly tries to challenge the Victorian ideological discourse of femininity through spotlighting on his fictional women's flaws which comes into conflict with the time's conception of a pure woman. "Tess of the D'Urbervilles" (1891), as a typical example of his fiction, is representative of Hardy's vision towards the Victorian ideal of femininity through the "Fallen" Tess. This paper is an attempt to re-read Hardy's "Tess of the D'Urbervilles" to explore the Victorian ideal conception of femininity first and, then, an attempt has been made to delineate the discrepancy between Hardy's perceptions of a "Fallen Woman" in contrast with the Victorian's. This paper, finally, concludes that although Hardy's genuine commiseration towards the "Fallen Woman" shows close affinity with the radical feminist notions of the day, Tess's sheer misery and her final tragic death in Stonehenge attest to Hardy's substantial contribution as a Victorian male novelist to the ideologies circulating at the time. (As Provided).
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Update	2020/1/01