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Is Tess a Pure Woman?—On the Failure of the Adaptation of the Movie Tess
XU Jian-gang
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DOI:10.17265/2159-5836/2019.09.003
China Three Gorgeous University, Yichang, China
Because of the great charm and social influence of the art of film, people regard the movie Tess is much more impressive than the original novel Tess of the D’Urbervilles. However, the character and image of Tess in the film have a considerable distance of the Tess described by Thomas Hardy. That unyielding Tess in original, who boldly resists bias and the injustice of fate, is gone and replaces it with a pathetic and vain girl who is too good near to be weak. This undoubtedly weakened the image of the artistic value of Tess and it has nothing in common with Hardy’s evaluation towards Tess—“a pure woman”. Therefore, in a sense, the adaptation of Tess is a failure.
Tess, film, adaptation, Polanski, pure
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