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How is Marlott described?

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“Untrodden as yet by tourist landscape painter,” and, “fertile and sheltered tract of country,”

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What is another name for may day dancing?

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“Club-walking,”

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How is Alec’s greenhouse unnatural?

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“Such roses in Early June,”

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What is the weather during the rape/seduction?

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“Half veiled mist,” and, “In a fog […] which disguises everything,”

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Where is Sorrow buried?

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“A shabby corner of God’s allotment,”

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How does Tess make a new start?

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“A thyme-scented bird singing morning in May,”

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How does Angel view nature?

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“Early association with country solitudes had bred in him an unconquerable and almost unreasonable, a version to modern town life,”

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How is Flintcomb Ash described?

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“A Starve-acre place,” which was, “uncared for,”

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How does Tess view finding Mercy’s boots?

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Tess, “read the scene as her own condemnation,” seeing, “untoward omens,”

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How is industrialisation criticised?

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“The red tyrant that the women had come to serve […] kept up a despotic demand upon the endurance of their muscles and nerves,”

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How is the owner of the red tyrant described?

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“He spoke in a strange Northern accent,” and, “Hardly [perceives] the scene around him,”

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How is Sandbourne described?

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“A Mediterranean landscape on the English channel,”

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How is Stone Henge described?

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“Heathen Temple,”

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How is Tess revealed to be dead?

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“Black flag,” and, “Justice was done,”

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How are the contours of the surrounding hills described?

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“As personal to her as that of her relatives,”

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What has happened to the Durbeyfield family?

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“How the mighty have fallen,”

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How do the family have some wealth?

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“You are the direct lineal representative of the ancient and knightly family of the D’urbervilles,”

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How is Tess marketed?

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“I hope it is an opportunity to earn some money,”

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How do the family view Tess when she is christening Sorrow?

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“Awe-stricken,”

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How does Angel feel about Tess’ lineage?

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“Perhaps Tess’ lineage had more value for himself than for anybody in the world besides,”

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How is their honeymoon described?

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“Ancestral Mansion,”

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How does the village see the Durbeyfields?

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As, “harbouring,” Tess as an, “Evil influence,”

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How does Tess feel about Liza Lou?

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“She has all the best of me without the bad of me,”

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How is Alec initially criticised?

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  • Money lender
  • Everything looked like money
  • A crimson brick lodge […] almost new
  • sham D’urberville
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How is Alec good looking?
"Swarthing complexion,"
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How does Alec guilt trap Tess?
"Swear that you will never tempt me - by your charms or ways,"
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How does Alec want to make amends to Tess?
"The whole blame was mine," and, "make me a self respecting man,"
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How does Hardy present Victorian morality?
"Tess, my girl, I was given on the way to, at least social salvation till I saw you again, " "Why then have you tempted me?"
29
How does Alec give up on his preachings?
"Remember my lady, I was your master once! I will be your master again," and, "If you are any man's wife, you are mine!"
30
How is their relationship seen by Alec?
"This is just like paradise. You are eve and I am the old other one, come to tempt you,"
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How does Tess' lineage cause her downfall?
"The old order changeth. The little finger of the Sham D'urberville can do more for you than the whole dynasty of the real underneath,"
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How does Alec blame Tess?
"O why have you treated my so monstrously," and, "You are cruel, cruel indeed,"
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How is Alec's death shown?
"What obscure stain in the D'Uberville blood has led to this aberration,"
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How is Angel initially presented as introverted?
"[He] was something education, reserved, subtle, sad, differing," and, "His presence in the room was almost forgotten,"
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What does Tess tell Angel?
"I shouldn't mind learning why-why the sun do shine on the just and unjust alike... but that's what books will not tell me,"
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What does Angel feel?
"Ache of modernism,"
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How is Angel idealised?
"To her sublime trustfulness, he was all that goodness could be,"
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How does he view Tess?
"Loves [Tess] dearly," and, "Rather ideally and fancifully,"
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How do Tess and Angel live in denial?
"Neither have the clue to the other's secret,"
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How is Angel and Tess biblically described?
"She regarded him as Eve at her second wakening might have regarded Adam,"
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What happened to the letter?
"Owing to her having in haste thrust it beneath the carpet as well as beneath the door,"
42
How does Angel admire Mercy?
"Don't you think that a young woman equally pure and virtuous as miss chance [...] would suit me infinitely better,"
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How is relief shown from Tess?
"O Angel - I am almost glad because you can now forgive me,"
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How does Angel question Tess' identity?
"You were one person, now you are another," and, "The woman I have been loving is not you,"
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How does Angel reject forgiveness?
"My god - how can forgiveness meet such as grotesque-prestidigitation as that,"
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How is Tess a sin?
"More sinned against than sinning,"
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How are Tess and Angel polar opposites?
"Different societies, different manners. You almost make me say you are an unapprehending peasant woman,"
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How is the honeymoon later described?
"In a funeral procession,"
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How are Angel's emotions heightened?
"Magnified the pores of the skin which it rolled,"
50
How is Tess described on May day?
"White gowns," with, "Red ribbons,"
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How do Tess and paganism link?
"Daughter of the soil,"
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How is Tess educated?
"Spoke two languages: dialect at home, more or less: ordinary English abroad and to persons of quality,"
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What is Tess trying to do when she goes the Alec's?
"Claim kin,"
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How is Tess' character over sexualised?
"Tess eating in an abstracted half-hypnotised state whatever D'Urberville offered her,"
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What is Tess' face?
"Trump card,"
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What does her mother advise her to do with her trump card?
"Put your best side outward,"
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How is Tess seen though Alec?
"Beautiful, feminine tissue, sensitive as a gossamer and practically blank as snow,"
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How is Tess a victim?
"But where was Tess' guardian angel?"
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What is Marlott?
"Her birthplace,"
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How does Tess recognise her previous naivety?
"She learned that the serpent hisses where the sweet bird sings," and that she was, "another girl,"
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How does the religious painter relate to her?
"Recent history," and, "Crushing! Killing!"
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How does Tess criticise her mother?
"Why didn't you tell me there was danger in men-folk,"
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What did the village do?
"They whispered to each other,"
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How does Tess seek comfort in nature?
"When out in the woods, that she seemed least solitary,"
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How does she view herself in phase 2?
"A figure of guilt intruding into the haunts of innocence,"
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What does she desire to do?
"To break a necessary social law,"
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What is she within phase 2?
"A spouseless mother,"
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How does she view the dying nature of sorrow?
"Lack of legitimacy," and, "Her darling was about to die and no salvation,"
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How are pictorial effects used?
"Singularly tall and imposing as she stood in her long white night gown,"
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How does Tess speak to the priest?
"Don't for god's sake speak as saint to sinner, but as you, yourself to me myself - poor me!"
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How is Tess' voice described?
"What a fluty voice one of those milkmaids has!"
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How is their a natural connection about Tess?
"What a genuine daughter of nature that milkmaid is!" and, "As if they were Adam and eve,"
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How is Tess' happiness shown?
"Never in her recent life been so happy as she was now, possible never would be so happy again,"
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How does she view Angel's face?
"How very lovable her face was to him,"
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How does Angel see her as a woman?
"A visionary essence of woman,"
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How does Tess see herself as a woman?
"A guilty woman in the guise of an innocent one,"
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How is she compared to a snake?
"She was yawning and he saw the red interiori of her mouth as if it had been a snake's,"
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What simile describes her warmth?
"She was warm as a sunned cat,"
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What simile describes her feelings towards the end of the novel?
"Like a hunted soul,"
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How is sympathy created for Tess?
"An honest girl who loved him - one who would have made as good or nearly as good, a practical farmer's wife as Tess,"
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How is Tess simply described?
"A figure which is part of the landscape; a field woman pure and simple,"
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Does Tess sin on purpose?
"They were not sins of my intentions,"
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How does Tess question her life?
"Why am I on the wrong side of this door," and, "I would rather be dead and buried when the time comes for you to despise me,"
84
How is fatalism shown?
"We be on a blighted star,"
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How does Tess show guilt over Prince's murder?
"Her face was dry and pale, as though she regarded herself in the light of a murderess,"
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What happened when Alec tried to initially kiss her?
Her eyes are compared to "those of a wild animal,"
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Where does the seduction/rape take place?
"The oldest wood in England,"
88
How does Tess feel betrayed by social law?
"A sense of condemnation under an arbitrary law of society which had no foundation in nature,"
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What do Marian and Izz say in a letter to Angel?
"Look to your wife... She is sore put by an enemy in the shape of a friend,"
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How is Tess' natural beauty shown?
"Flower-like mouth,"
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How does Tess feel after shaving her eyebrows?
"I will always be ugly now because Angel is not here,"
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How is Tess destined for a sexual downfall?
"A season when the rush of juices could almost be heard below the hiss of fertilisation (...) The ready bosoms existing there were impregnated by their surroundings,"
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How is Tess shown as indecent?
She had an attribute which amounted to a disadvantage just now; and it was this that caused Alec D'Urberville's eyes to rivet themselves upon her. It was a luxuriance of aspect; a fullness of growth, which made her appear more of a woman than she really was. She had inherited the feature from her mother without the quality it denoted.
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What shows Angel’s classism?
He became wonderfully free from the chronic melancholy which is taking hold of the civilised races

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