[Hardy-l] Tess

[Pauline Guerin]

Ah but I'm not saying they didn't have sex, I'm saying that there is merely
a suggestion, and that the reader may interpret that as they wish,
dependent, perhaps, upon the reader's own experience and/or naivety!

 

Of course Hardy couldn't have been more explicit, but is it not interesting
that some adaptations feel that the viewer cannot read suggestion, or
perhaps, shouldn't read suggestion and therefore the scene needs to be
played out?

 

I don't feel we should presume, because we simply don't know...... for sure!


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In The Woodlanders it is implied rather than explicitly stated that
Fitzpiers has sex with Suke Damson.  on the night of the Midsummer revelry.
Sometimes readers have to make assumptions about what is implied by an
author constrained by the prudery of Victorian publishing conventions.

 





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