-
Muggle
The social ethics aggravate Tess's tragedy, but also make her more painful. After Tess lost her body to Alec, Clare and others hurt Tess's words is a kind of mental torture. Clare was possessive, and in his mind Tess was only his personal possession. When he married Tess, she seemed to Him so pure and sweet. The more he liked her, however, the more he felt her confessing the past to him. That Tess had lost himself to others, Clare's heart to the image of Tess collapsed, thus to Tess verbal slander. It is the deep-rooted feudal traditional morality in Clare's heart that causes the tragedy of his love with Tess. Because She had forgiven him for all his past beauties, but he had not forgiven her for a persecution he had once suffered, instead he had abandoned her ruthlessly, which made a sharp contrast with Tess and made me, as a reader, feel sad for her.