...ls one can easily recognise the Greek riters vie on man a being born to endure that hich as to befall him. The English riter conceived almost all his heroes as variants of certain types, ithout endoing them ith too much inner depth. They only have to face the essential hypostases of Fate hich is the principle around hich all the Hardian stories spin. It is a notion designating the poer that predetermines events.tpar ttab Tess, the main character of the novel, is a simple innocent country girl, ho tries to escape her social background under the pressure of exterior circumstances she is forced to fight the principles of evil, embodied by Alec, but she cannot resist she sins, therefore she is punished.tpar ttab Alec is the symbol of evil, the embodiment of the ickedness and unscrupulousness of the implacable orld in hich man is obliged to live.tpar ttab Angel Clare is neither good nor bad he is not daring and he is conservative, abandoning Tess in the most difficult moments. Hardy did not succeed in portraying him very ell so he remains a rather vague character.tpar ttab Tess of the dUrbervilles is a novel ritten by a story-teller and not by a poerful analyst.tpar ttab The tldblquote Stonehengetrdblquote fragment begins ith Hardy-the-architects description of the monoliths. The authors eye for the significant details is to be mentioned. The atmosphere is set at this stage darkness, coldness, ildness, and greatness are supported by the symbolical paraphrases used by Tess and Angel to denominate Stonehenge Forest, pavilion of the night, heathen temple.tpar ttab The description of the Great Plane and its symbolic stones the Stone of Sacrifice and the Sun Stone follos. From dusk to dan, hole nature accompanies Tess. Hardy describes the elements still or moving, dark or light, colourful or colourless in such a ay to suggest Tesss thoughts and emotional states. The communion beteen character and nature may be folloed throughout the text hen Tess is falling asleep everything is dark reserve, taciturnity and hesitation are the qualities of the landscape at that moment even the night ind has died out. Then gradually, the reader is prepared for the moment of Tesss aakening the light is groing, the stones are no more dark, but they are glistening green grey. The reader is announced that something is going to happen through some significant phrases as foe example, the light is strong or the sunbeam hich shines full on Tesss face. The reader can probably feel as Tess feels, that everything has become clear, that the heroine does hatever she has to do so the memorable phrases tldblquote It is as it should betrdblquote and tldblquote I am readytrdblquote climax the hole passage. The Stonehenge scene shos the idea that Hardys novels nature does not help the characters, but only projects the human tragedy on the primordial axes.SItpar SS...
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