Tess of the d’Urbervilles, have a subtitle, " a pure woman "17 . This prove Tess’s unfortunate fight of marriage. She thinks the losing of the virgin's chastity does not mean losing the purity of the love. So she again and again ask Angel: “I thought, Angel, that you loved me--me, my very self! If it is I you do love, O how can it be that you look and speak so? It frightens me! Having begun to love you, I love you forever--in all changes, in all disgraces, because you are yourself. I ask no more. Then how can you, O my own husband, stop loving me?” 18She does not think that love must be equivalent to chastity, but believes that real love should be the idea of abandoning common customs, natural, simple and honest. Though she fails to get understanding from Clare at the beginning when she was ready for the happy marriage that she dreams of, she never give up, still veining for a gleam of hope for the happy marriage. However, finally she could not get rid of the evil force. Before she gets pardon from Angel, she falls into inferior trap of Alec. And when her husband appears in front of her, she, for her happiness, even the transient happiness of a few days. She killed the arch-criminal of crime --Alec. Obtain unprecedented ease and freedom. Tess has a happiest time while catching. She set up Clare her younger sister for the hope that she can obtain the happy marriage at the younger sister's body, and make Angel happy. She leaves happily finally. She has been lived again on younger sister, who get real purity marriage without prejudice and common customs.
Though the story winds up with the tragedy, we can see clearly that she keeps resisting. She, against this unjust society, false religion, moribund old tradition, and unfortunate marriage, all make enormous efforts and carry on the resistance of justice. But we have to realize that, in such a society, the evil force walks crosswise, and there is a strong backing –The protection of state apparatus and religion system. In addition, there is the spirit of the feudal ethical thought. Such a rural girl with only her own hands to work and her simple and honest, how to cross it? So the final tragedy of Tess is unavoidable, but her spirit of revolt is worth thinking deeply about.
Tess is not a weak person, but a powerful woman, though she goes through the publication to carve, spreads out before us by assuming the role of victor finally. As representatives of force of evil Alec does not succeed finally. He had to pay a price for his behavior, which has set off victory of resisting the moribund society of Tess. Tess’s right inferior contempt does not adhere rigidly to religion form to laugh at hypocritical religion. Tess’s seduction illegitimate child and philosophy of life in the future deny the correctness of ethical society. And the faith of Clare, being traditionally ethical, make him become " the slaves of the custom and stereotype "19 ,  which by contrast set Tess the extraordinary and refined figure and courageous woman to pursue happiness marriage .