Tess's Female Consciousness in Tess of the D'Urbervilles

Tess of the D'Urbervilles is the representative work of Thomas Hardy, an outstanding realistic writer in the nineteenth century's literary world. In his work, Hardy has created a new image filled with female consciousness,Tess. This paper just focuses on the study of Tess' s female consciousness, from the following aspects: consciousness of self-reliance, consciousness of protest.