Just watched the recent BBC version of Tess. Very good though perhaps miscast in the male characters ... but believable enough to evoke a deep rising for justice outside of the perversity of societal norms and (hypocritical) 'biblical values' (the kind of biblical values that have been usurped by victorian society to serve only those who can afford their kind of morality and are a stick and a stain for the rest). Thomas Hardy's portrayal of social injustice is breathtaking, deep and his anger at the hypocrisy of his society is palpable. He is able to provoke his audience to forgo their common sense and rationality and see with their eyes.
Tess is the woman of the Song ... and probably lasts just as long. A messiah snuffed out and forever youth and beauty... but her story entwined with Hardy's pen will echo for all our days. He resonated for us.
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