I am quite conflicted by this read.On the one hand, Hardy’s style is flawless, beautiful as he describes the country side, the dairy, drawing out the vivid landscapes of this story. His delicious bits delight the senses with heart stopping sensitivity. And then there is his Tess our protagonist…...
I watched the movie yesterday and i loved it. I can't wait to read the book too, but it was quite sad so i will need the proper motivation to start it.
I am currently sitting in a gorgeous B&B in the very county where Thomas Hardy was born, a few miles from a hill Tess herself climbed. Sydling, in case you were wondering. Dorset. It's beautiful, and this book is really location-specific - Hardy spends an inordinate amount of time describing the ...
Nothing seemed to happen in chapter 1. Ok, a major thing happens; it’s what sets off the whole chain of events, but still. It just seemed like a plain description, and to start with it’s hard to get into.The first point I felt really strongly is at Tess’s rape. As a girl in 2011, I just thought the ...
I picked up Tess to listen to during the last week of September to celebrate Banned Books Week. Originally published in 1888, this book was often censored for sexual content. It is still often included as required reading in many high schools - and is still occasionally censored. Tess Durbeyfield...
There's this Lars von Trier movie called Dancer in the Dark, starring Björk of all people. She plays a poor factory worker in rural America. She's going blind (which is not great when you work around heavy machinery), but she needs to save up enough money to pay for an eye operation for her son. To ...
The tragedy of being "a (pure) woman". Sometimes I felt like yelling at some of the characters because of their attitudes. A sad story, but, strangely, I wasn't sad after reading it.
Tess's father, Mr. Durbeyfield, is jokingly told by a minister that his family is the direct lineage of an old, noble family that was once thought to be completely gone. There's nothing left of the family's land and fortune, except the family name (d'Urberville). However, Mr. Durbeyfield and his wif...
Hardy is an incredible writer (there's a scene of someone watching Tess as she works in the field, the sun hitting her face, that I remember to this day) but I'm troubled by how his brain works.
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