https://padlet.com/bwalker37/7xum5v57oou1 en-us 2019-03-21 13:59:40 UTC 2019-04-03 03:29:51 UTC hello@padlet.com https://padlet-assets.s3.amazonaws.com/icons/Alarmclock.png bwalker37 https://padlet.com/bwalker37/7xum5v57oou1/wish/343795992 The industrial revolution plays an important role in the book Tess of the D'urbervilles. Thomas Hardy strategically embodies the ultimate destruction of industrialization through Tess's downfall by mirroring her life progressing but ultimately bringing her own end. ]]> 2019-03-21 14:07:15 UTC https://padlet.com/bwalker37/7xum5v57oou1/wish/343795992 bwalker37 https://padlet.com/bwalker37/7xum5v57oou1/wish/343812533 2019-03-21 14:32:20 UTC https://padlet.com/bwalker37/7xum5v57oou1/wish/343812533 bwalker37 https://padlet.com/bwalker37/7xum5v57oou1/wish/344344372 "Lower age at marriage and therefore higher birth rates and population density. The logic of this particular argument revolves around the notion of the need to maximize the total labour force husband and wife and children of the peasant household, providing powerful incentives for parents to have more children," page 2

" the aggregative effect being the breaking-up of the homeostatic equilibrium of pre-industrial populations. The process of proto-industrialization led to a proletarianization and impoverishment of the rural population." Page 2

Hardy, as is well known, was deeply critical of industrial modernity, and Tess has long been read as a novel concerned with the havoc wreaked by mechani- zation upon the landscape and traditional social forms of agrar- ian Wessex.8 Shires makes a nod in this direction when she links Tess’s objectification to the “new historical situation which was altering the relations of society” in the nineteenth century, ob- serving that “mechanization, especially, was changing the re- lationship of the laborer to her work, and was producing an effect of alienation” Article #2 (pg. 230)

Machines, always a disruptive and destruc- tive force in rural Wessex, are of obvious importance in Hardy’s novels, and some of the most influential early evaluations of Tesssuggest an ameliorative link between the formal “defects” of the novel and the problem of mechanization. (#2 page. 231


]]> 2019-03-22 18:13:59 UTC https://padlet.com/bwalker37/7xum5v57oou1/wish/344344372 bwalker37 https://padlet.com/bwalker37/7xum5v57oou1/wish/344347105 2019-03-22 18:20:09 UTC https://padlet.com/bwalker37/7xum5v57oou1/wish/344347105 bwalker37 https://padlet.com/bwalker37/7xum5v57oou1/wish/344348693 1) The rape scene on Page 121 proves the connection between higher birth rates and more population. The rape shows how young Tess was sent off to get married or be taken care of 

2)  Same as #1 

3) Writes on Hardy's thoughts and themes of industrialization in the book and how he views industrialization 

4) shows the destruction of machines through Tess's life. The defect off Tess and the issues with the mechanical world.]]> 2019-03-22 18:23:36 UTC https://padlet.com/bwalker37/7xum5v57oou1/wish/344348693