• PRAJAPATI VIJAYKUMAR DALSUKHBHAI

This paper examines the condition and portrayal of women in the Thomas Hardy’s novel Tess of the d’Urbervilles. Various kinds of feminism can be used to analyse the novel, however Marxism and Radical could be used prominently in this novel. The act of dehumanizing women by making her ideal and deviant seems to be an existing problem in the society. The contemporary era says that women are empowered and they are achieving the heights, but does this society really know a woman’s life. So this research paper will discuss about how women’s condition was projected during the Victorian era and the comparison with the contemporary era. The patriarchal values bent their aspects of rules according to their convenience and let women to act accordingly.

Ideal Woman, Deviant Woman, Patriarchal values, Dehumanisation, Contemporary condition.

"Feministic approach in the Tess of the d’Urbervilles", International Journal of Emerging Technologies and Innovative Research (www.jetir.org), ISSN:2349-5162, Vol.7, Issue 12, page no.356-362, December-2020, Available :http://www.jetir.org/papers/JETIR2012245.pdf

"Feministic approach in the Tess of the d’Urbervilles", International Journal of Emerging Technologies and Innovative Research (www.jetir.org | UGC and issn Approved), ISSN:2349-5162, Vol.7, Issue 12, page no. pp356-362, December-2020, Available at : http://www.jetir.org/papers/JETIR2012245.pdf