Tess as a Representative of Her Natural and Cultural Environment in Thomas Hardy’s Tess of the d’Urbervilles

Abstract

Thomas Hardy’s Tess of the d’Urbervilles is not a common story about a country woman who lived an everyday life full of the difficulties and stereotypes of the Victorian era. Tess’s story is far more: as an outstandingly beautiful woman, she earns the attention of any man from the kindest to the most selfish; and this natural beauty is her doom.