[Content]: " Tess of the D'Urbervilles " is Thomas Hardy's masterpiece. Tess's image, the best shape of the typical in Hardy's novels is one of the best female images in the British literary treasure-house . From the subheading of the text: "a pure woman", we can see the author give Tess a high evaluation and praise. This article analyzes Tess's purity from three aspects of "Nature's daughter," "ugly environment of the times" and "pure humanity" .
[Key words]: Tess pure nature environment of times humanity
