Author Type

Graduate Student

Date of Award

1987

Document Type

Thesis

Publication Status

Version of Record

Submission Date

October 2026

Thesis/Dissertation Advisor [Chair]

Faraci, Mary

Abstract

Thomas Hardy includes in his Wessex novels images of women oppressed by the patriarchal system. Even though he exposes the abuses in the system, he suggests that the women fall short of the qualities of intelligence and language which the narrative voice respects. Lovely Tess is naive, simple, and impulsive; Sue appears narcissistic, revolutionary, and bizarre; Arabella, also narcissistic, is amoral and coarse as well; thus, in Tess of the d'Urbervilles and Jude the Obscure there is a sense created by the patriarchal narrative voice that the women are not capable of the tasks required for vreat ing intellectual human communities.

Extent

77 p.

Comments

Dorothy F. Schmidt College of Arts and Letters|Thesis (M.A.)--Florida Atlantic University, 1987.|FAU Electronic Theses and Dissertations Collection|Dorothy F. Schmidt College of Arts and Letters

Identifier

FADT14358

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