Model
Digital Document
Publisher
Florida Atlantic University
Description
Thomas Hardy includes in his Wessex novels images of
women oppressed by the patriarchal system. Even though he
exposes the abuses in the system, he suggests that the
women fall short of the qualities of intelligence and
language which the narrative voice respects. Lovely Tess
is naive, simple, and impulsive; Sue appears narcissistic,
revolutionary, and bizarre; Arabella, also
narcissistic, is amoral and coarse as well; thus, in Tess
of the d'Urbervilles and Jude the Obscure there is a sense
created by the patriarchal narrative voice that the women
are not capable of the tasks required for vreat ing
intellectual human communities.
women oppressed by the patriarchal system. Even though he
exposes the abuses in the system, he suggests that the
women fall short of the qualities of intelligence and
language which the narrative voice respects. Lovely Tess
is naive, simple, and impulsive; Sue appears narcissistic,
revolutionary, and bizarre; Arabella, also
narcissistic, is amoral and coarse as well; thus, in Tess
of the d'Urbervilles and Jude the Obscure there is a sense
created by the patriarchal narrative voice that the women
are not capable of the tasks required for vreat ing
intellectual human communities.
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