Tess Of The D'Urbervilles: Analysis Of Angel And Alec's Attitudes Toward Tess
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Tess of the D'Urbervilles: Analysis of Angel and Alec's Attitudes Toward
One of Thomas Hardy's greatest novels, Tess of the D'Urbervilles,
was published in 1891. The novel was set during this 19th century in
Wessex, Britain. Tess of the D'Urbervilles reflected the Victorian Age in
Britian during ....
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.... actions. Angel Clare's
actions and attitude toward Tess had less severe effects on her because his
intentions were good unlike Alec d'Urbervilles.
Angel and Alec have very different attitudes toward Tess. Angel
first loved Tess for her innocece: "What a fresh and virginal daughter of
Nature that milkmaid is (176)." After he came from Brazil, Angel realized
that "The beauty or ugliness of a character lay not only in its
achievements, but in its aims and impulses; its true history lay, not a ....
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