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thing continues, no more novelwriting for me. A man must be a fool to deliberately stand up to be shot at. ?After the public outcry against Jude the Obscure in 1896, Hardy wrote no more novels. ?Poems of Past and Present ?The Dynasts A Pure Woman ?The traditional Christian view that equating virtue and purity with virginity is wrong. ?Hardy distinguishes between the act and the intention ?Tess is pure in her character and her soul remains unstained regardless of what happens to her body Hardy defended the subtitle in an 1892 interview with Raymond Blathwayt: “... I still maintain that her innate purity remained intact to the very last。s decline, which proves to be continuous and irreversible. She is humiliated by how her reappearance in Marlott looks to friends and neighbors. There is no longer a place for her in the family home。 novels are concerned more with the social implications of the society. ?Good choices based on sound morality have great influences on the destiny. ?Thomas Hardy is a writer who is more concerned with the headon collision of nature with man, resulting in the destruction of man. His characters are often face to face with nature and suffer at the hands of fate