In your test on phases one through four, you were asked to answer the following question:
"Hardy’s mostly unmentioned subtitle, “A Pure Woman,” raises the question of Victorian ethics. Critic, and teacher, Andrew H. Miller believes nineteenth-century literature was a “response to a crisis of human purpose” and that the Victorian age was one "destitute of faith, but terrified by skepticism." (Victorian Studes, 5). Hardy could be seen as challenging the Victorian quest for faith of purpose and adding his own sense of skepticism. Therefore, his audience would have questioned his use of the word “pure” to describe Tess. What is your view? Is Tess a “pure” woman?"
Comment here on your ideas from that essay. Share your ideas and comment on each other's views in a polite and professional manner.
