ENG 3320 Lecture Notes - Lecture 6: Ant-Zen
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Pure is a great world to challenge contemporaries on the role of women: this is what"s faked for her. Clares are educated, but not with limitless wealth: class confusion with 3 main characters. Tess with high class lineage is a farm girl. Talbothays was the best fit for tess. 138 sensual all senses are engaged. But not beautiful, even though it"s natural: indifferent towards all creatures, landscape becomes character. Hardy is sympathetic to tess" issues, narrator isn"t. Nature doesn"t have interest in what we"re doing: but it"s a very important force in novel. Overwhelming sense of unfairness doesn"t even say that we"ll be redeemed in heaven. She just suffers because she"s fated to suffer. Considered one of the greatest poets of the 21st century. Strong sense of self as artist contributed to his greatness. Writing is accessible to people wants it to be available to everyone.