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Tess of the D'Urbervilles: A Pure Woman Faithfully Presented [Tess of the D'Urbervilles: A Pure Woman, Faithfully Presented] ez tone ogawa is a novel by English writer and poet Thomas Hardy published in 1891 in Him, Hardy shows traditional ez tone ogawa life in the camps English already being devastated by industrialization - a recurring theme in his work - and criticizes the Victorian morality, especially ez tone ogawa hard on women.
The book tells the story of Tess, a beautiful and innocent peasant girl whose father discovers belong to one of the oldest families in England - the D'Urbervilles - which was already owns huge properties, ez tone ogawa despite falling ez tone ogawa into poverty and oblivion. Swollen with pride, he sends Tess perform for a branch of the D'Urberville family who lives nearby and still have money in the hope that there exit a good marriage for the girl, which might help to regain lost glory.
What the father of Tess does not know is that this branch of the D'Urberville are not close relatives of truth - they took for themselves the important surname after they made fortune trying to get rid of the stigma of nouveaux riches. The new D'Urberville are just two: an old blind lady and her son Alec, an arrogant young man and scoundrel. Seeing the beauty and ingenuity of Tess, Alec begins to treat her cousin, earns their trust and one day, takes her to a deserted place and rapes her.
Nobody criticizes the rich young man for violating the poor girl - it was so inevitable part of life as the sun rising in the morning. At one point in the book, two matrons regret that these things always happen with the prettiest girls, while remaining unsightly ez tone ogawa "safer than churches." 's Own mother ez tone ogawa Tess regrets only that the act of Alec did not result in a marriage. And nobody blames himself more than Tess for his weakness, and this weakness is only summarized the complete ignorance of the danger that lurked.
Tess goes to work as a farm milking in another region to escape the memory of what happened to him. On the farm she meets Angel Clare, a young middle class who is also working as a milker she decided to learn the trade of a farmer. Angel and Tess fall in love, get engaged, and she happens to be gnawed by doubt: should ez tone ogawa or should not reveal his past to her future husband?
Tess decides to tell everything, but only on their wedding night. Angel, although it is considered a progressive ez tone ogawa man is shocked and leaves, going to try his luck as a farmer in a very exotic place - Curitiba. From then, Hardy Tess is going through a real martyrdom, ez tone ogawa presumably so that even the most hardened ez tone ogawa heart of the nineteenth century could fail to forgive her, even as it was tainted.
It has been over a hundred years since the publication of Tess of the D'Urbervilles, but even today rape victims ez tone ogawa often are blamed for the crimes committed against them, especially in more conservative countries, such as Brazil. After the case of the girl who was raped and killed in India, causing a national uproar, many women came to tell who had suffered similar violence, ez tone ogawa but did not want to go to the police to not be stigmatized with the loss of virginity. Hence, the tragedy of Tess still relevant.
Tess of the D'Urbervilles currently only has a translation ez tone ogawa into Portuguese in Brazil circulating, Itatiaia publisher. Who is on the cover of the book is Nastassja Kinski, who played Tess in the film version released in 1979 and directed by Roman Polanski - shortly he who two years before had been arrested in the United States precisely because of rape, which would to flee that country. More recently, the film became a BBC miniseries and also walked arousing renewed interest by being mentioned in the trilogy-phenomenon 50 shades of gray. Sometimes, even the worst books can lead to good things.
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