... conventions of the 19th century and recognize the struggle that women endured, in order make equitable compromises within such a rigid civilization. Composers such as Robert Browning, Jane Austen, Ibsen and Thomas Hardy have all explored the social hypocrisies of the regency period and admit that not all people can make such compromises between their personal convictions and social convention and in some ... admire her, only him, and she cannot resist him. Finally, the final text that I am discussing is "Tess of the D"urbervilles" composed by Thomas Hardy, deemed one of the greatest wor...

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