http://blog.oup.com/2007/06/tess_pure/ Academic insights for the thinking world. Fri, 24 May 2013 18:48:58 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.4.2 http://blog.oup.com/2007/06/tess_pure/#comment-156144 sara Fri, 08 Jan 2010 07:43:11 +0000 http://blog.oup.com/2007/06/tess_pure/#comment-156144 Personally, I do see Tess as a pure woman and that is also shown in Hardy's way of presenting her. If we compare her with the other women in the novel, we can easily notice how different she is from them. Although she is not virgin, she stil can be considered as pure. Her purity is in her kindness and good personaliy. She has been raped at age of sixteen, so she was a child who can't be blamed for what happened. Finally, purity should not br restricted to virginaty. Personally, I do see Tess as a pure woman and that is also shown in Hardy’s way of presenting her. If we compare her with the other women in the novel, we can easily notice how different she is from them. Although she is not virgin, she stil can be considered as pure. Her purity is in her kindness and good personaliy. She has been raped at age of sixteen, so she was a child who can’t be blamed for what happened. Finally, purity should not br restricted to virginaty.

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