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How do you figure she retains her purity? Tess' "purity" is based on her lack of sexual desire and her physical beauty, nothing more. Read more closely...

[Leanne]

I thought that Tess is a very modern novel for the time that it was written. Tess herself is a character who is presented as one to be empathised with. Hardy does this through an extraodinary use of his role as an omniscient narrator, giving a sense of completeness, and an unbiased way of presenting the information in the novel. Tess always maintains her level of purity, despite the many sins that society may perceive her to have committed.