Hardy, Tess, and Nature by Abigail Apple https://padlet.com/aapple2/tess An exploration of Hardy's view of nature and how it affects his novel Tess of d'Urberville in respects to nature's indifference to the characters. en-us 2019-03-21 12:56:28 UTC 2019-03-25 19:08:01 UTC hello@padlet.com https://padlet-assets.s3.amazonaws.com/icons/Apple.png Thesis: aapple2 https://padlet.com/aapple2/tess/wish/343771370 Hardy's reversed perception of the relationship between the natural world and the man-made affects the way nature intercedes indifferently to the characters in his novel, 'Tess of the D'Ubervilles."]]> 2019-03-21 13:28:41 UTC https://padlet.com/aapple2/tess/wish/343771370 Convergence of the Twain Lit Crit aapple2 https://padlet.com/aapple2/tess/wish/344782189

]]> 2019-03-25 12:39:01 UTC https://padlet.com/aapple2/tess/wish/344782189 "Suddenly all of man's glory and vanity that went into building the ship become little more than useless things that sea-worms crawl in and out of. In a way then, we get to see man's creation as a kind of artifact that nature curiously observes, rather than the other way around." aapple2 https://padlet.com/aapple2/tess/wish/344874878 Because Hardy made the decission to portray nature in this way, he is telling us what he belives- that the natural world has more power than the man-made. ]]> 2019-03-25 15:27:56 UTC https://padlet.com/aapple2/tess/wish/344874878 "Hardy was a naturalist, part of Darwinst-influenced literary movement at the end of the nineteenth and beginning of the twentieth century that saw nature as indifferent to humankind." aapple2 https://padlet.com/aapple2/tess/wish/344876470 This explains why Hardy wrote nature in as something indifferent to humankind. ]]> 2019-03-25 15:30:54 UTC https://padlet.com/aapple2/tess/wish/344876470 "The heady beauty of nature at the dairy deceives Tess into believing she can find redemption despite her "sin" of having had a child out of wedlock." aapple2 https://padlet.com/aapple2/tess/wish/344877919 This quote speaks towards Tess' ignorant view of life because of the beauty that nature creates. ]]> 2019-03-25 15:33:22 UTC https://padlet.com/aapple2/tess/wish/344877919 where are your Tess quotes? megryan https://padlet.com/aapple2/tess/wish/344979803 2019-03-25 18:52:34 UTC https://padlet.com/aapple2/tess/wish/344979803