Skip to main content
Home
About Repository
FFOS
Library FFOS
Contact
Instructions and manuals
Hrvatski
FFOS-repository
Repository of the Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences Osijek
Browse
By Author
By Year
By Organizational unit
By Scientific field
By Object type
All documents
More...
Advanced search
Upload
Search Term
this repository
all repositories in DABAR
Warning message
This object is not active. Metadata may not display correctly.
Repository contains an object with an identical title, author name and surname:
link:
islandora/object/ffos:4161
undergraduate thesis
Victorian Morality in Thomas Hardy's "Tess of the d'Urbervilles"
Details
Title
Victorian Morality in Thomas Hardy's "Tess of the d'Urbervilles"
Abstract
This paper is concerned with the concept of Victorian morality and how it showcases in one of Thomas Hardy’s most prominent works, Tess of the D’Urbervilles. Throughout the prosperous reign of queen Victoria, English society showcases a specific type of behaviour known under the term of Victorian Morality. There are several aspects of Victorian morality: specific code of conduct, restraint, intolerance towards crime and religion. The concept of such morality and the society which requires it are criticised throughout the novel as hypocritical, and full of double standards applying only to women and proscribing the idea of an ideal woman. Because of this, Tess was, at first, seen as an immoral character, until Hardy himself justified her actions numerous times. This is also the reason why the subtitle of the novel is A Pure Woman Faithfully Presented. Tess was never immoral by society’s definition, but she was rather its victim and the victim of men who used their dominance to their advantage.
Subjects
HUMANISTIČKE ZNANOSTI, morality, Victorian era, code of conduct, ideal woman, Tess of the D’Urbervilles, Thomas Hardy
The object has been removed.
Repository contains an object with an identical title, author name and surname:
link:
islandora/object/ffos:4161