Emma: All Human Beings Are Judging
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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 answer is that they
probably did no ....
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.... hand, Homais, as a man, was able to succeed in pursuing 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 ....
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