https://youtu.be/cZ4Xt-h91fw?si=EDlTcVFXKg7DuzC-
Directed by, Roman Polanski
Starring: Justine Waddell; Jason Fleming; Oliver Milburn
A free-spirited yet naive country girl is caught between her wealthy, manipulative "cousin" Alec and the handsome, educated farmer Angel Clare in this Victorian tragedy from novelist Thomas Hardy.
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However, Tess's innate tragic flaw in character also brings about her tragedy. She is too innocent . Her guilty feeling of her sin and her complete obedience to Angel Clare as her husband also display her weakness in character.
One of the original reasons for censorship was that Hardy was breaking the sexual norms of his society, and challenging the sexual double standard that existed . He proclaimed to all that the rape of Tess, his epitome of nature, made her no less a good woman than those in "decent" society.Sep 29, 2011
Hardy's subtitle, A Pure Woman Faithfully Presented, gets to the heart of her intentions. First, even though Tess would be considered a fallen, impure woman by most of her society, Hardy wants to redefine purity . Innocent Tess is raped and impregnated at 15 and gives birth to an illegitimate child who dies.Sep 1, 2011
