Thomas Hardy

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I want connected the verist movement with the most important English author Thomas Hardy.
Hardy was born near Dorchester in 1840 and wrote eleven novels the most important is Tess of the d’Urbervilles wrote in 1890.
He was attacked by critics for his pessimism and immorality in his later novels.
Tess of D’Urbervilles caused considerable scandal among more conservative critics and readers who considered the work immoral and pessimistic.
Hardy’s novel in its moral openness and acute human sympathy stands on the borderline between Victorian realism and “20 century” modernism and his heroine Tess like many other characters of Hardy’s novels is a woman who is not of her time perhaps not of any time.
The novel is also called “A pure woman” is in fact ironic alluding sarcastically to the Victorian notion of moral purity which Hardy found limited..
The word “pure” is used to convey the idea that Tess is a woman who cannot be defined by any moral qualities.
Tess can be considered for Victorian fiction a fallen woman but Hardy not define her a fallen woman.
Tess is presented dived between a conscious part of her mind governed by convention and religious superstition, and a her deeper, instinctive vital being which follows its own law and refuses to be judged.
Hardy has a vision of the world naturalist, and with this novel we can connected with the verist movement because he show the condition of woman in the Victorian age going against critics and readers.