TY - BOOK AU - Ali Alhaj PY - 2015 CY - Hamburg, Germany PB - Anchor Academic Publishing SN - 9783954899340 TI - Thomas Hardy's Portrayal of a Pure Woman in Tess of the D'Urbervilles T2 - A textbook on short story UR - https://m.anchor-publishing.com/document/298712 N2 - Abstract The current study aims at exploring the depiction of a pure woman in Thomas Hardy's Tess of the D'Urbervilles. It also provides a brief commentary on Hardy's quality of writing, contributions and reputation and some related matters. In this novel, Thomas Hardy depicts Angel's obsession with purity may taken as a uniquely important determinant of Tess's fate. It is not going too far to say that without it there would have been no tragedy, especially of a 'pure' woman. The conflict of Angel's image of woman with real woman Tess becomes the turning point in the novel. The characterization of Angel is sufficiently plausible, in spite of a certain flatness, to make his attitude seem natural both to him and to the mental landscape of the novel. KW - thomas, hardy, portrayal, pure, woman, tess, urbervilles LA - English ER -