[Hardy-l] Tess

[Pauline Guerin]

They may sleep in the same bed, which certainly  suggests intimacy, but
intimacy isn't necessarily sex.   The point surely is that the adaptation
actually shows them having sex, rather than suggesting it.  Hence Royd's
argument (I think here Royd, please forgive me if I'm wrong) about
gratuitous sex.  As I say I've not seen the rest of the series, so I could
be well off track here.

 

Best

Pauline

 

but they presumably do during the idyllic period in the deserted mansion
before Tess's arrest at Stonehenge.  By the sound of things (I haven't seen
the television adaptation), they may not do so in the film but in the book
they certainly sleep in the same bed, where the caretaker sees them with
"Tess's lips being parted like a half-opened flower near his cheek". The
caretaker is "struck with their innocent appearance, and with the elegance
of Tess's gown hanging across a chair".

 

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