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| Lack of control over actions |
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| However our impulses are too strong for our judgement sometimes |
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| How Blakemore is described |
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| This fertile and sheltered tract of country |
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| Tradition being carried on in Blakemore |
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| The banded ones were all dressed in white gowns, a gay survival from old style days |
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| Pastoral realism at the dance |
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| There were a few middle aged women...having a grotesque, certainly pathetic appearance |
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| Tess Naivity is shown from an early stage |
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| Bless thy simplicity Tess |
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| Tess' pride would not allow her to turn her head again |
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| Tess is naive and inexperienced |
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| phases of her childhood lurked in her aspect still |
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| Tess is left split after the rape |
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| An immeasurable chasm was to divide our heroines personality |
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| The rape is shocking but fateful - it corrupts her innocence |
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| Why was it on that beautiful feminine tissue...there should have been traced such a coarse pattern as it was doomed to receive |
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| Tess is in tune with nature - not society, she is punished for breaking a rule that she doesn't believe in |
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| She had been made to make a necessary social law, but no law known to the environment in which she fancied herself such an anomoly |
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| The reaping machine destroys nature |
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| Rabbits, hares, snakes, rats, mice, all retreated...unaware of the ephemeral nature of their refuge...all of them put to death by the sticks and stones of the harvesters" |
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| Environment is ambivalent to Tess |
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| The familiar surroundings had not darkened because of her grief nor sickened because of her pain |
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| Her baby dies just after she starts to get past her moral issues |
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| But not her moral sorrows were passing away a fresh one arose on the natural side of her which knew no social law |
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| Tess' baby died - good or bad? |
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| Poor Sorrow...doomed to be of limited brilliance, luckily perhaps for himself considering his beginnings |
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| Tess baby was doomed to failure |
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| that bastard gift of shameless nature who respects not the civil law |
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| Tess is transformed by the rape |
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| Almost at a leap Tess changed from simple girl to complex woman |
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| Tess takes comfort in her simple, natural, roots |
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| She would now be the dairymaid Tess and nothing more |
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| Nature can be kind to Tess - even if it is a coincidence |
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| She had never visited this part of the country before yet she felt akin to the landscape |
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| Religion is a topic of discussion - The pagan tradition is seen by Hardy as more "pure" |
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| Nature retain in their souls far more of the pagan fantasy of their distant forefathers than of the systematized religion taught to their race at a later date |
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| Clare has the freedom to enjoy pastoral life - doesn't realise that for some people it is the only way to live |
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| Unexpectedly he began to like the outdoor life for its own sake |
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| Clare likes Tess for what she represents |
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| What a genuine daughter of Nature that milkmaid is |
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| Tess finds happiness in Talbothays |
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| Tess had in recent life never been as happy as she was now, perhaps would never be so happy again. She was, for one thing, mentally and physically in tune with her surroundings |
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| Tess and Angel are presented at the start to have an innocent love - almost a prelapsarian ideal |
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| As if they were Adam and Eve |
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| Angel starts to see Tess as a 'lover' |
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| She was no longer a milkmaid, but a visionary essence of woman, a whole sex condensed into one form |
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| Clare is much akin to Alec in that he stalks her slightly |
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| He sat under his cow watching her |
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| Clare sexualizes Tess, and then complains when he finds out she is "corrupt" |
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| How very lovable her face was to him, but there was nothing ethereal about it, all was real vitality, real warmth, real incarnation" |
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| Clare plays around with Tess |
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| Tess was no insignificant creature to toy with and dismiss |
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| Angel claims to love her for herself |
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| It was for herself that he loved Tess, her soul, her heart, her substance |
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| It is shown how Angels love was always based on a type rather than an individual |
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| He loved her dearly though perhaps rather ideally |
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| Angel, like Alec, abuses Tess due to her naivity and lack of power |
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| His experience of women was great enough for him to know that the negative often meant nothing more than the preface to the affirmative |
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| Angel, like Alec, can be presented as quite predatory |
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| He kissed the inside vein of her soft arm |
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| Angel claims to not care about her heritage but... |
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| Society is hopelessly snobbish...you mnust spell your name correctly - D'Urberville, from this very day" |
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| Hardy idealises Tess and describes her as a... |
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| Angel tries to mould Tess |
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| To produce Tess, fresh from the Dairy, as a D'Urberville and a lady |
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| Angel goes off her when he hears about the rape |
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| I repeat, the woman I have been loving is not you...another woman in your shape |
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| Tess, as a natural being, cannot understand Angels anger |
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| I have done nothing that interferes with or belies my love for you |
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| Angel patronises Tess about the fact that they are from different walks of life with different rules |
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| Different societies, different manners |
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| Angel now decides that he dislikes her heritage |
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| Here I was thinking you a new sprung child of nature, there were you, the exhausted seedling of an effete aristocracy |
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| Tess in Angels eyes changes completely due to the rape |
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| Nothing so sweet, so pure, so Virginal as Tess had seemed possible...the little less and what worlds away |
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| He was bitterly disposed towards social ordinances |
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| Hardy uses pheasants to show that the only way out for Tess is death |
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| Pheasants...all of them writing in agony, except the fortunate ones whose torturers had ended during the night by the inability to bare no more" |
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| Tess hoped for some accident that might favour her but nothing favoured her |
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| Alec tries to justify and pass off the rape |
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| was but a momentary spasm, and considering what you had been to me it was natural enough |
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| Alec recognises her naivity but still doesn't apologise |
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| What a blind young thing you were as to possibilities |
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| Alec at his most hypocritical |
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| But has not a sense of what is right and proper have no weight with you |
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| Tess is shown to still be a bit naive with Angel near the end of the novel |
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| a triumphant simplicity of faith in Angel Clare |
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| he was in the agricultural world but not of it...with a sustained hiss |
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| Tess is governed by her natural side rather than the rules of society |
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| a vessel of emotions rather than reasons |
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| Tess doesn't feel as if she has any luck |
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| once victim, always victim, that's the law |
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| The novel shows the death of the peasantry |
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| A depopulation was also going on...the tendency of the rural population towards the large towns being really the tendency of water to flow uphill when forced by machinery |
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| Tess is condemned by Angels mum for being... |
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| At the end they don't act like adults but... |
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| Their every idea was temporary and unforefending, like the plans of two children |
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| At the end of the novel... |
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| Justice was done...and the D'Urberville knights slept on in their tomb unknowing |
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| Tess is doomed from the first few pages |
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| Like apples on our stubbard tree. Most of them splendid and sound - a few blighted |
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| Tess' dad refuses to live in the present and gets caught up in the past - perhaps a weakness of the pastoral |
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| I won't sell his old body - when we D'Urbervilles were knights in the land, we didn't sell our charges for cat's meat |
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| Tess was never in a good situation before the Slopes - just a bit of a less bad one |
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| Out of the frying pan into the fire |
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| Tess is not protected by nature or the natural gods |
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| But where was her guardian angel, where was the providence of her simple faith |
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| Tess has a tendency to worry about issues that cannot be changed |
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| O, I hope that is no ill omen for us now |
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| Tess gives in to Angel in the hope he will give her a small punishment and then forgive her |
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| I agree to the conditions, Angel; because you know best what my punishment ought to be; only, only, don't make it more that I can bear! |
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| Tess' love for Angel can not be surpassed |
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| She would have laid down her life for 'ee. I could do no more |
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| Tess' religion is of the natural type |
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| How can I pray for you when I am forbidden to believe that the great power who moves the world would alter his plans on my account |
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| Remember, my lady, I was your master once. I will be your master again. If you are any mans wife you are mine |
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| Tess for a while tries to rebel against Alec |
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| You are cruel, cruel indeed! I will try to forget you. It is all injustice I have received at your hands |
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| Tess' Ancestors don't care |
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| And the D'Urberville knights slept on in their tombs unknowing |
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| Tess' grows to hate her ancestors |
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| She had no admiration for them now; she almost hated them for the dance they had led her |
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| Tess finally realises that she cannot worry about or predict the future |
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| Don't think of what's past!" said she. "I am not going to think outside of now. Why should we! Who knows what tomorrow has in store? |
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| Tess is raped by Alec - much like the snake corrupts eve in return for experience. The name of the forest - the Chase, shows how she then has to flee from "Eden" |
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| Darkness and silence ruled everywhere around. Above them rose the primaeval yews and oaks of the Chase |
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