Tess! forgiveness does not apply to the case-

Social case or intellectual one?

Thats the dialogue of Angel Clare- ..where Tess pleads for forgiveness, but man is a man. Yet more than a man, his 'idea' was broken where his soggy lil heart shrunken under the luggage of his reason- found her guilty, ..a grotesque irony it makes ma'am. The suspicion of deceit when the hope is there is like a slap to your senses. The case, yes apply to neither social nor intellectual but the culmination of hope that set hold a castle of 'ideal-image'. That 'idea' believed was now questioned in foundation? The disappointment vent  in forms as deluding it a matter of principle, social, or intellect maybe. But the hysteria, the hysteric laughter of his that follows gives the reader sight into his conduct that the 'idea' recognized hath all of a sudden come to distortion. It gives man the sentiment that he was so blind as to this. There you comes to halt in ur terms with that person or comes to halt in all kinds of ur beliefs, for hath you not cured thyself of that blindness thats diagnosed as yet of case, you're n u'll be a wreck. So, he parted with Tess as we see. And as he states "u were then one person, now u r another" ..lo! its the distortion that speaks--      
Thats so far what i've to say on my account.. in my interpretation