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Up to now, we have read four stories about four condemned women, and they were all either condemned by social conventions or restricted by them. Coincidentally, they were all works of male writers. How can a man fully understand a woman's desires or dilemma? The ....

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.... his desires without being punished. Hardy, on the other hand, was totally sympathetic with his heroine. Tess, under his pen, was a totally tragic existence condemned by God. She did not have the desire to break out of the repression of morality; instead, she upheld the moral code that caused her miserable life. Only in the end did Tess fight back and kill Alec, but she did not do it for her own liberation but for the love of another man. Hardy implied the idea that women were always subordinate to men. He applauded Tess for learning and upholding Angel's believes and gave Tess no believes of her own Like Flauber and Hardy, Tolstoy was a mora ....