mine She wants to help her family So she goes to the d Urberville family There Alec takes advantage of Tess s innocence and rapes her Tess becomes a victim of rape But the society and people blame her unfairly Tess s Great Sense of Duty Tess stays strong after this incident But she never becomes truly happy She gives birth to a baby boy named Sorrow who soon dies She buries him with love and care even though the local priest refused to give the baby a proper burial place Tess tries to start a new life She works hard at Talbothats Dairy to earn money She always tries to do her duty as a daughter mother and worker This shows her great sense of duty Tess s Honest Love and Angel s Rejection At Talbothays Dairy Angel Clare falls in love with Tess Tess also loves him deeply When Angel proposes to marry Tess she refuses Because she is afraid of her past Tess thinks she is not worthy of him She even tries to confess before the wedding by writing a letter But Angel never reads the letter On the wedding night Tess tells him everything about her past But Angel cannot accept her He says O Tess forgiveness does not apply to the case This is unfair because Angel had an affair and spent two nights with a lady But the society does not blame him or consider him impure Tess forgives Angel but he leaves her Tess s Poverty and Alec s Return Angel leaves Tess and goes to Brazil When Alec returns Tess refuses him at first She says to Alec O will you go away for the sake of me and my husband But Tess s family becomes homeless after her father s death The family is starving To save her family Tess agrees to stay with Alec But she never loves him She writes letters to Angel but Angel never returns In the end when Angel returns too late Tess even kills Alec Because she wants to return to the only love of her life her Angel This shows that Tess s love for her husband is true not impure Tess s Death and Hardy s Message Tess spends a few happy days with Angel When she is caught by the police she accepts her fate quietly Tess is hanged by the law Hardy s narrator says sadly that Justice was done But we know that this is not really justice Tess s death makes her a tragic but pure heroine Hardy wrote this novel to show that society often judges women wrongly In those days a woman s value was based on her body not her heart In conclusion Tess is one of the most touching and innocent characters in English literature She is always a good and pure soul She is only a victim of rape and society s harsh judgment Tess is undoubtedly A Pure Woman Faithfully Presented