Hamal, Prachanda2022-02-162022-02-162007https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.14540/8277The thesis explores the dehumanizing and in humanely effects on an individual imposed by Victorian morality, the kind of morality which not only demands subordination of individual wishes but also corrupts the vital force of human potential. The interaction of culture with nature and the corruption of the former over the latter is what the central inquiry that the entire thesis makes. Tess signifies nature in pure and pristine form whereas Victorian morality an impure and corrupt.en-USVictimVictorian MoralityThesis