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Tess of the DUrbervilles     Throughout the novel, Tess of the DUrbervilles, Hardy focuses on the life of Tess Durbeyfield. beginning out as a green, innocent girl, Tess matures throughout the book to have a powerful woman who was capable of thinking for herself. Further more, she was also prehensile enough to realize her importance as an individual.      At the beginning of the novel, Tess was depicted as a young girl with too much obligation for her age. She was sent out into the world at a very young age, and was unable to see the danger in life around her. Tess was the ane who had to fetch her parents from the inn because they stayed out too late. In addition to that, she was laboured to do her fathers work because he was too drunk to realize what the current situation was. Neither parent cared much near Tess her mother was everlastingly thinking about getting Tess married, and her father was thinking of ways to doctor up their social order. Due to the negligence from her parents, Alec was able to take advantage of her physically and psychicly. By giving Tesss father a horse, Alec was able to exert mental control over Tess in such a way that Tess was cause to obey.     Yet, Tess was able to overcome her conflict with Alec because she possessed a keen experience of justice and morality. She realized that she had sinned, but also came to the conclusion that she should not be punished eternally for one mistake. This realization also reflects upon Tesss maturation mentally. Moreover, because her affair with Alec also resulted in a child, she was forced to mature much more quickly than she would have liked. Tess also had the habit of blaming herself for everything that would not go as planned. The whispering that Tess break downs during her visit to Church after her affair with Alec only serves to modify her feelings that she was constantly at fault.      Tesss matu ration also continued during the period when backer deserted Tess. Throughout this time, she refused to let anybody criticize paragon. Tess also hides the truth about their separation from either set of parents, for the fear that she will have to endure further criticism. Her simplicity of faith in him is such that, "even the virtually perfect man could have hardly deserved it." Tesss love for Angel is permanent.