Tess, between drama and violence

Interpretation of a Becoming Woman in the Victorian Century

Abstract

In this text, I approach a reading of the film Tess, made by Roman Polanski in 1979, as a trace of traces that describe, not without a certain critical realism, the game of truths about a woman in agricultural England of the Victorian century, in its second half. A reality that perhaps still is ours today, as children of modernity in its decline and as women challenged and subjectified in a bundle of relationships and possibilities that highlight and dispute the truths about themselves, in an ontological view of our present.