The Fallen Woman must Die in Hardy’s Novel, Tess of the D’Urbervilles

Abstract

This research aims to examine a certain category of British women identified as “Fallen Women” and the institutions that were built to hold and rehabilitate such class known as penitentiaries and regarded as victim. In Hardy’s novel Tess of the D’Urbervilles, we take a bird’s-eye view of this image to analyze this stereotype in order to fuel the discussion.