[Hardy-l] Re: [Tess

[Stacy Hauth]

i had a thought about tess a while ago i read tess when i ws 17 and again at 27 this author helen andelin of fascinating womanhood and she liked to study feminine characters in novels so i reread tess and remember how angel said what a fair and virginal creature of nature when he saw her and its all about someone who lost her virginity and i cant remember exactly but remember when hardy wrote can virginity be repaired and how she found new life wiht angel
i also read thsi book being a woman and the author toni grant says to be a virgin and a lady and calls this a madonna quality 
and in the bible God says no israelite woman is to be a prostitute 
 
and i wass haped by this but i suddenly had the thought that its hard to be a special virgin 
and i just felt that there are so many beautiful girls out there and its hard to be special 
i remember meeting this guy i really liked at college and hed call me once every six weeks and took me to a fraternity formal 
and i believed in tess 
but i suddenly felt i was living in the wrong world
and id ecided that the only one who cares about girls being virgins is God and not men
i listen to the dennis prager show and he lectures on male sexuality etc 
and i liked the pure love between  tess and angel and i think its a good thing  


--- On Tue, 12/30/08, Rosemarie Morgan <Rosemarie.morgan at yale.edu> wrote:

From: Rosemarie Morgan <Rosemarie.morgan at yale.edu>
Subject: [Hardy-l] Re: [Tess
To: hardy-l at coyote.csusm.edu
Date: Tuesday, December 30, 2008, 10:09 PM

I look forward to hearing from other Hardyans about this recent serialisation of
*Tess,* starring Gemma Arterton. I feel this production (which my daughter, in
the UK,  copied to me last November) benefits enormously from its extended
(serialised)  length. This more generous time-scale allows for a nuanced subtle
attention to detail which would have been difficult to achieve in a shorter
framework. For example, there is now time to focus upon Alec's charm and
influence over Tess which the director achieves, in several cases, by showing
Alec's more vulnerable side & its effect upon Tess - as also in setting
him *outside* his manorial dwelling rather than within. There is also more time
to focus upon Tess's own fiery and often conflicting feelings -- as behoves
a young teen-aged girl: there's a moment, for example, when her mother,
Joan, makes some aimless remark whereupon Tess rolls her eyes in mock-drama of
exasperation: a mannerism  familiar to any parent of a teenage daughter.

The movie is, though, latterly far more harrowing than might otherwise be borne
(in reading the novel one can at least retire, temporarily, for respite and
recovery), although Hardy's own dramatic ending cannot, it seems, be
matched, in its denouement -- for its sheer agonising tragedy.

Happy New Year to all Hardyans --
Best
Rosemarie


> Happy holidays!
> 
> Paul Niemeyer
> 


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