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she feels nervous and contradictive again and again. Tess understands that a woman’s virginity is regarded as supremely important by most of her society, and that Angle does not see her as anything but completely pure. Telling Angel of her family’s D’Urbervilles lineage is difficult for her. He takes the news well, but she does not gain confidence that her other, more shameful revelation will be met with the same excitement. No one can refuse happiness. The former rejections go to waste after Tess gladly marries Angel with a feeling of guilty and worries. She is so afraid of losing her husband that makes her life restless all the time. Later on, when she knows a similar error in Angel’s past “eight-and forty hours” dissipation with a stranger in London, she securely makes her confession and hopes to get Angle’s forgiveness. Tess has thought although Angel didn’t find the letter under the carpet he can forgive her and then they will live a happy life together. But Angel, who proves himself more judgmental and inflexible than his parent, is blind by his failure to accept Tess for who she really is. He takes Tess’s transgression as a personal attack on him, which makes him unable to see her clearly. The idealized, pure vision of Tess is destroyed. In his eyes, Tess is already lost-though she is still alive, she has partially vanished into the gloom of her fate. Although Angel remains the die-hard progressive, the pressure of conforming to English propriety coupled with his troubled view of his marriage stifles his growth. Even though he has decided to remove all the obstacles and choose a country milkmaid-Tess, as his wife, he still lacks courage to eliminate the old moral value thoroughly and get rid of the old influences. He treasures the family reputation and his dignity more than the love to Tess. There is yet a great distance between his enlightened thought and his actual deeds. However, it is because of strong love, Tess regards Angel as intelligence rather than a man. She becomes depressed as she realizes the distance between him and herself. What’s worse is that she does not accept anything which is said as Angel’s disadvantages. Angel has the same past as Tess’s, but he cannot forgive Tess as Tess forgives him. He no longer sees the woman he once has seen and has married only hours ago. For him, the lover who’s beloved has been transformed in his mind from the embodiment of purity into the tarnished reality of a fallen woman. He says to Tess, “the woman I have loving is not you,” but “another woman in your shape” [1]. Although Tess is sincere, Angel still “looked upon her as a species of impostor; a guilty woman, in the guise of an innocent” [1]. The most terrible is his blameness “Don’t, Tess, don’t argue. Those are just country people’s ways… perhaps you were weak and could not refuse this man because your ancient noble blood has run thin, because….” [1]. In this sense, Angel is colder than Alec. What he displays is extreme self-love and cold-blood. Although Tess does not give into Alec’s violence, she is wrecked by Angel’s prejudice that leaves her in total darkness in her life. Tess is treated so unequal, but she never complains about Angel’s feelings, and she only criticizes and blames herself. She loses her strength and wishes to submit her husband: “I will obey you like your wretched slave, even if it is to lie down and die.” Indeed, Tess is little more than a walking corpse. 2. Her Second Stay with Alec While endurin