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        <title><![CDATA[What idea have you formed of Hardy's conception of tragedy from your...]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[What idea have you formed of Hardy's conception of tragedy from your reading of Tess of the D'Urbervilles?]]></description>
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        <title><![CDATA[I would say it would be Alex that is the worst person in the story. He...]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[I would say it would be Alex that is the worst person in the story. He had victimized Angel and had raped her by taking advantage over her, causing her to be pregnant, so he has the upper hand for threatening Tess, and later Alex killed him, ending the story tragically.]]></description>
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        <pubDate>Sat, 24 Oct 2009 20:31:35 PST</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[Tess was not raped. In the following chapter she said, "If I had gone...]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[Tess was not raped. In the following chapter she said, "If I had gone for love o' you, if I had ever sincerely loved you, if I loved you still, I should not so loathe and hate myself for my weakness as I do now!... My eyes were dazed by you for a little, and that was all." She stayed with him for a few weeks afterwards and was "dazed" by him. She was not raped because she didn't try to stop him. Thomas Hardy suggests by that statement it may...]]></description>
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        <pubDate>Fri, 23 Oct 2009 09:50:33 PST</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[In Chapter 56 of Tess of the d'Urbervilles, in which ways does Thomas...]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[In Chapter 56 of Tess of the d'Urbervilles, in which ways does Thomas Hardy build suspense?]]></description>
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        <pubDate>Sun, 11 Oct 2009 06:23:23 PST</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[This remains a gray area because Hardy delicately draws a veil over it...]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[This remains a gray area because Hardy delicately draws a veil over it and does not describe the rape/ seduction. One reason, of course, is that in a nineteenth century novel it would not be possible to provide a graphic description. But I believe it is also because Hardy wants to preserve the modesty of his "pure" heroine. She is ill-used by the world and lovingly, achingly evoked as desirable and vulnerable - much like Wessex. If one reads...]]></description>
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        <pubDate>Sun, 23 Aug 2009 07:05:17 PST</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[The act of Alec can never be considered as seduction.  Tess was...]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[The act of Alec can never be considered as seduction.  Tess was actually being raped by Alec.]]></description>
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        <pubDate>Sun, 23 Aug 2009 02:09:09 PST</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[Was Tess raped or seduced by Alec D'urberville?]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[Was Tess raped or seduced by Alec D'urberville?]]></description>
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        <pubDate>Sun, 23 Aug 2009 00:47:56 PST</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[The quote is not only all-important to Tess but also to Hardy's...]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[The quote is not only all-important to Tess but also to Hardy's overruling philosophy.  In Tess, right before the all-seeing narrator makes the aforementioned observation about justice, Tess was executed for the "murder" of Alec.  Most readers would argue that she did not truly murder Alec, but that is insignificant at this point in the novel.
After the quote, Tess's true love Angel Clare and Tess's sister, Liza-Lu, lift up their heads,...]]></description>
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        <pubDate>Tue, 28 Jul 2009 11:00:05 PST</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[dhen,
Are those your requirements? Do you have to write on those...]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[dhen,
Are those your requirements? Do you have to write on those topics? How about a feminist approach, or a constructionist/destructionist approach? A feminist approach or a destructionist approach might work well with Hardy. I have seen a few journal articles already on this subject concerning his novels.
Hardy sets his stories in small villages and towns, and is drawn to experiences of disappointment and failure. His major novels end...]]></description>
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        <pubDate>Sat, 27 Jun 2009 01:27:33 PST</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[Grammardog Guide to Tess of the D'Urbervilles]]></title>
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        <title><![CDATA[This phrase occurs  in "Tess of the d'Urbervilles" when Angel remarks...]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[This phrase occurs  in "Tess of the d'Urbervilles" when Angel remarks that Tess has the "ache of modernism" which seems to refer to Hardy's dislike, as Marcelle Clements writes in the introduction, for "the repercussions of the industrial revolution, the extinction of rural life, the implacable roles of caste, gender, and morality in Victorian England" as well as the laws of Social Darwinism. 
 In the novel, Angel Clare, of the upper...]]></description>
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        <pubDate>Sun, 3 May 2009 11:57:37 PST</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[What is meant by Hardy's pharse "ache of modernism" that Hardy uses in...]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[What is meant by Hardy's pharse "ache of modernism" that Hardy uses in "Tess of the d'Urbervilles”?]]></description>
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        <pubDate>Sun, 3 May 2009 09:17:37 PST</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[I must create an analysis of Tess of d'Urbervilles but am unable to...]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[<p>Can anyone help me? </p>]]></description>
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        <pubDate>Sun, 12 Apr 2009 03:15:15 PST</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[what does the scene between tess and the parson and its aftermath reveal...]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[what does the scene between tess and the parson and its aftermath reveal about the author?]]></description>
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        <pubDate>Fri, 6 Mar 2009 16:26:52 PST</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[What is one way we know that Alec does not take the kinship between Tess...]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[What is one way we know that Alec does not take the kinship between Tess and him seriously?]]></description>
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        <pubDate>Sun, 25 Jan 2009 20:23:21 PST</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[After he knows Tess’s impurity, he right away turns his back towards...]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[After he knows Tess’s impurity, he right away turns his back towards Tess and hurts Tess deeply by
harsh words.
Scholar LI Hong-lan criticizes Alec for he ruthlessly destroys a naive country girl. But actually after Tess
gives birth to her child with Alec, she gradually acquires the ability to overcome the moral and social stigma and
thus maintains her dignity and sense of self. She becomes brave enough to face people’s gossips. Even...]]></description>
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        <title><![CDATA[it is obviously that Angel stands for the bright and advanced class...]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[it is obviously that Angel stands for the bright and advanced class while Alec
the degenerated and hypocritical bourgeoisie. Compared with Alec, Angel is gilded with a flame of purity and
kind-heartedness. He seems to be the real angel.
However, the fact is, even Tess never cares about Alec and tells him several times that she does not love him
Alec still wants to woo her and take care of her family. On the contrary, Angel scarcely takes...]]></description>
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        <pubDate>Fri, 26 Dec 2008 13:43:49 PST</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[Alec accepts Tess’s request of possible kin without any reluctance. He...]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[Alec accepts Tess’s request of possible kin without any reluctance. He writes a letter to
provide Tess with a job. He teaches Tess how to whisper in a proper way. He saves Tess from a terrible fight with
other women. When they two lose their way in the forest at night, Alec makes a comfort nest from dead leaves for
Tess and puts his overcoat round Tess before he leaves her. All these things he does are evidence to testify his love
to...]]></description>
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        <pubDate>Fri, 26 Dec 2008 13:18:39 PST</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[ithink angel is worse than alec may be alec hurts tess but angel...]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[ithink angel is worse than alec may be alec hurts tess but angel destroys her angel do every thing that opposite to his promise he abandon her and does-not care for her moreover alec tries to help her and her family ]]></description>
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        <pubDate>Fri, 26 Dec 2008 12:16:22 PST</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[In &quot;Tess of the d'Urbervilles,&quot; the quote &quot;Remember my...]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[In &quot;Tess of the d'Urbervilles,&quot; the quote &quot;Remember my Lady, I was your master once! I will be your master again,&quot; is significant because it is a foreshadowing of what fate has in store for Tess.  Hardy was a fatalist and believed that things happen to people because of fate and the choices we make simply lead us to what was going to happen all a long. &quot;At the end of the novel, after Tess dies, Hardy writes, &quot;...]]></description>
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        <pubDate>Thu, 25 Dec 2008 23:12:07 PST</pubDate>
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