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e loved, but also to be obeyed. He makes all the decisions. His wife is supposed to be his faithful companion. Male domination of women is perhaps even more unsettling. Angle’s love for Tess, as pure and gentle as it seems, dominates her in an unhealthy way. Angle substitutes an idealized picture of Tess’s country purity for the real life woman that he continually refuses to get to know. When Angle calls Tess names like “Daughter of Nature” and “Artemis” [2], we feel that he may be denying her true self in favor of a mental image that he prefers. Thus, her identity and experiences are suppressed, albeit unknowingly. Tess is more close to nature and the land of life consciousness, on moral and legal norms of the existing system is skeptical. It is for this reason, she asks, she will be able to use "a similar philosophy and vision" to examine difficult to erase those days, and does not lose because of corruption, even virgin virginity asks: “A woman's virginity is a lost forever lost? …All organisms have the ability to restitution, Why only on virginity no?” [3] 4. Class Oppression On the other hand, Tess is more polished than many people, but not quite up to the level of the upper and middle classes both socially and culturally. She still represents many bad things to Mrs. Clare. Angel’s mother sees in Tess the beginning of the fall of the great Victorian era of opulence and high society. She does not accept Tess as a suitable daughter-in –law because she believes that Tess will bring down the status of the family. The Clares hope that Angle will find a suitable bride, meaning a highborn, well-bred woman of society. For them, marriage is not about love, but rather social, financial, and religious prosperity. Though old family lines retain their earlier glamour, the old economic realities make sheer wealth more important than inner nobility. Engels once made a penetrating analysis: “The English proletariat is becoming more and more bourgeois, so that this most bourgeois of all nations is apparently aiming at the possession of bourgeois aristocracy and a bourgeois proletariat as well as a bourgeoisie. For a nation which exploits the whole world this is, of course, to a certain extent, justifiable”. [4] In general, the upper and middle classes remains firmly in power, dignified, self-satisfied kindly disposes towards the rough-mannered workers and simple farmer tenants, but very conscious of their own superiority, and, as they suppose, their higher sense of values. So, the newly rich people like Simon Stoke family can spend money to buy respectable social status for itself and later generation and the newly acquired name. Alec uses not only his wealth and social status but also takes the advantage of Tess’s innocence and poverty violates her. Also, at the end, he controls Tess in a second time by means of his wealth and the poorness of Tess’s family. B. Reasons for Her Nature 1. Her Sense of Responsibility The other main reason which causes Tess’s rebellion is added to her nature. Tess is a fresh country girl who is full of the sense of responsibility for her family because of father’s laziness and mother’s simple mindedness. The horse’s death let her think she is responsible for this accident and she must earn money to support her poor family. This guilt leads her to visit the D’Urbervilles and puts her into an uncertain and potentially dangerous situation. The death of her father adds her family’s eviction because her reputati