characters in their books‚ Jane and Tess‚ respectively‚ face similar tribulations‚ but end up with infinitely distinct outcomes in their lives because of their authors’ vastly different worldviews. Using James Sire’s A Universe Next Door‚ as a key to understanding worldviews‚ and analyzing Brontë’s Jane Eyre and Hardy’s Tess of the d’Urbervilles makes the authors’ worldviews well defined. Comparing Brontë’s and Hardy’s worldviews explains why the stories of Jane and Tess
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How the Nurse Feels is a story of a teenage girl named Tess Powell‚ who during the course of the story goes through some profound changes. Tess plays the role of the Nurse in her school’s current production of Shakespeare’s “Romeo and Juliet” But Tess has a rather bothersome problem. She is not able to play her role correctly‚ because of a failure in fully understanding and thereby expressing the emotions felt by the character. During the story she gets a crush on a boy‚ who has a small role in the
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Girl‚ the star Tess McGill (Melanie Griffith) is a hard working woman who is determined to reach the top of the stock market world by hard work. As she turns 30 she is still stuck in clerical work so when she starts working for Katherine Parker (Sigourney Weaver) she is glad that Katherine is willing to accept input and ideas from her. However‚ when Katherine goes on a skiing trip and breaks her leg she asks Tess to look after things. With that responsibility Tess simply takes over
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marriage. The woman not wishing this ’glorified’ role of wifehood‚ while still wishing to express her sexuality and satisfy her desires‚ however‚ is deemed to have ’fallen’ and is equated with a prostitute‚ ’a horrible spectre’(Dijkstra 1986: 13) Tess‚ Hetty and Ruth are ’fallen women’. To ascertain
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How do Pope and Hardy explore responsibility for the downfall of the protagonist? Pope in The Rape of the Lock and Hardy in Tess of the D’Urbervilles both explore the responsibility for the downfall in their female protagonist‚ one losing her virginity and another only a lock of hair. In Tess of the D’Urbervilles it is mainly shown to be the fault of the male aggressors such as Alec and Angel‚ whereas Pope doesn’t explore the Baron in great detail suggesting he is less at fault for Belinda’s
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When Katharine Parker‚ (Tess’ boss) breaks her leg in Europe she tells to house sit. This indicates that the relationship between Katharine and Tess was more of an extended family where they could even share ideas. When Tess finds her boyfriend in bed with another woman‚ she went to live at Katharine’s apartment. In this organization‚ having a romantic relationship with a colleague is seen as obvious. This is parlayed by Oliver Platt (Tess’ first boss) tricking Tess into a date with his lascivious
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As we know‚ Tess of the D’Urbervilles is the most famous novel of Thomas Hardy. No doubt‚ Tess is the major character in this novel. But today I’d like to talk about one of the male characters‚ named Angel Clare. He is a freethinking son born into the family of a provincial parson. This youngest of three brothers didn’t enter college as his siblings‚ but went to study agriculture so that he might become a farmer. He not only has superior intelligence‚ but also has liberal opinions which is beyond
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Kath’s failure to forgive Daniel for his actions quickly becomes the fuel of many confrontations between Tess and herself. Many harsh comments spill out in these conflicts: most notably when Kath sharply points out to Tess that “Fin can’t even turn his neck to see his back” (p154). With most of Kath’s venom aimed at Tess‚ it is definitely noticed that “the air becomes icy when Kath and Tess are near each other” (p193). Kath sacrifices and at the same time goes above and beyond to help her extended
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Emily. Wuthering Heights. Ware: Wordsworth Editions Limited‚ 1992. Print. Eagleton‚ Terry. Myths of Power: a Marxist Study to Brontes. 2nd. ed. Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan‚ 2005. Print. Hardy‚ Thomas. Tess of the D’Urbervilles. London: Penguin Books‚ 2003. Print. Kramer‚ Dale. Thomas Hardy. Tess of the d’Urbervilles. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. 1991. Print. Maurer‚ Oscar. The University of Texas Studies in English. Andrew Lang and Longman’s Magazine‚ 1882-1905.Vol.34‚ University of Texas
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if it is through death. Gatsby‚ in Fitzgerald’s novel can be argued to have not grieved from his loss of love as he never gains that realisation that he has lost love as he is so deluded with his dream of obtaining Daisy to live his American dream. Tess in Hardy’s novel does experience grief through the loss of Angel however it can be argued that through the loss of Alex her former lover she is happier as she is permitted to find a new more compatible lover‚ whilst Duffy’s poetry altogether contradicts
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