The financial independence resulted by this social development led women to gain more confidence in society and created a condition for breaking the barriers towards freedom. The bourgeois ideologues feared the consequences of the women’s freedom but could not ignore the economic benefit of this change. Therefore, they introduced the philosophy of equality so that they could continue the suppression of women in the name of religion and ethics.
Thomas Hardy (1840-1928) was a Britain's critical realism novelist and poet at the end of the 19th century. Father of his architect, he himself studied architecture too. He spent his most time in homeland, which was a special prefecture. Hardy's creation period includes carrying out the transition to the stage of imperialism from non- monopoly capitalism. He sees that the capitalist system is to give help to the working people, especially who experienced misfortune and disaster, bring them to agriculture and show sympathy to them. His novel fill with his background in homeland, including the near prefecture district. This is an almost industrial at all farming region, but it is permeated by the capitalism too. Especially after the seventies, the invasion of the capitalism destroyed the whole countryside, make the foundation of the patriarchal clan system society of the countryside collapse completely. He has observed the agricultural crisis to fill in miserable consequence that the special prefecture causes in one, describe this regional peasant's disaster received. But he explains the reason why the society changes with idealism, thinks what controlled people's destiny is a kind of " fill the will of the universe"1. This is a view of fatalism.
Hardy’s masterpiece Tess of the d'Urbervilles describes the miserable experience of a rural girl. But too unfortunate to overthrow this girl who calls Tess, she relies on her own hands to work, moving people with her own sincerity. She is " a pure woman "2. Finally she winds up with the tragedy, which is why people often discuss her as the source of the tragedy. However, I saw her powerful fight, fighting against the society, the hypocritical religion. All her did was to abandon the old ethical society and to pursuit a happy marriage. She has shown in front of common people her own practical action that she is insulted, which indicates a resisting powerful woman's images.
    Tess of the d'Urbervilles, is the first famous work of Britain outstanding realistic writer, Hardy. Because Hardy had once had experience of living in the Ministry of Agriculture, he was extremely familiar with peasants' life, personality, custom, language, etc. Works of Hardy reflect capitalist factor invading Britain social economy, politics, morals, and enormous custom changes of under countryside, showed the miserable destiny of the rural working people of specific historical period. Hardy’s theme that create his novel, usually show the antinomy between people and society, personality and environment, especially through the description of issues such as love and marriage, displaying the individual confliction when people fight against social outmoded practice, religion law, morals custom. In his works, especially woman images in the works of him have deeply shown this characteristic. Tess of the d'Urbervilles, is the essential reflection of Hardy’s style and the society he wanted to show.