iful Tess without wanting to know of her past life or her hopes and dreams. Persistently molding her into the female version of himself, he cares not of the personality he is destroying. Only concerned with her beauty and the practical reasons of a farmer marrying a milkmaid, he is appalled when he learns that Tess is not a carbon copy of himself but her own person. "You were one person: now you are another", Angel exclaims, never realizing it was he that had formed her into a being that was not herself. In love, we find it is hard to forgive one's faults and mistakes if we did not first love the person's virtues. Angel fell in love with the woman he created and found it quite impossible to find in the object of perfection, that he had created a flaw. In his own word's Angel asks, "how can forgiveness meet such a grotesque -- prestidigitation as that!" He is a man who has forgotten the childhood fundamental teaching of forgiveness. Finally, Angel is able to forgive Tess and love her regardless of her flaws but is unable to sacrifice himself to save his true love. Angel in the end, although somewhat stronger from his moral realization, is still a weak man. When the woman of his heart has been endangered, he does not stand by her or exclaim in her defense but helplessly stands by as she is taken to her execution. Angel, if a strong man, would plead her case and explain his fault. Whether it would have helped or not he would have tried in some way to intercede for her. He does one commendable thing before falling back to his savagery by commanding the authorities to let her finish her sleep. The as she awakens he watches helplessly as she walks to her death.In conclusion, we are offered innumerable fact from this literature in which we can base our assumption that Hardy and Fitzgerald had the same view of man and his society. As you read Tess of the d'Ubervilles you will begin to see the many examples of Hardy's beliefs on t...
