![]() ![]() Hardy is onher side since he subtitles the book 'a pure woman faithfully presented' and prefaces it with Shakespeare's words 'Poor wounded name! My bosom as a bed/ Shall lodge thee.' The double standard also makes the heroine's tragedy possible, and thus serves as a mechanism of Tess's broader fate. Sexual double standard Tess falls is atruly good woman, but she is despised by society after losing her virginity before marriage.When he parts from her he gets so sick that he is reduced to a 'mere yellow skeleton.“ Man's separation from nature is implied both in the creation of destructive machinery and in the inability to rejoice in pure nature. Man's separation from nature Angel‘s middle-class fastidiousness makes him reject Tess, a woman whom Hardy often portrays as a sort of Eve, in harmony with the natural world. Hardy describes modern farm machinery with infernal imagery at the dairy that the milk sent to the city must be watered down because the townspeople cannot stomach whole milk. Analysis and themes Ache of modernism This theme is notable in Tess, who portrays 'the energy of traditional ways and the strength of the forces destroying them'. ![]()
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