[Hardy-l] Re: Thoughts on 'Tess'

[Stacy Hauth]

i felt that angel clare was a jerk to abandon tess and he really did nothing for her and alec seemed to want to help her and her family 
and this novel could have been called the virgin i remember angel said what  a fair and virginal creature of nature and in some part it says can virginity be restored i cant remember the exact words and its like the whole story is a trauma about how she lost her virginity 
and i noticed that the bible is strict on women also the novel had an influence on me i was with one guy mark a rich guy who took me out and im et dr fink when i was vomitin gand i preferred dr fink to mark and he wanted to know if i had a boyfriend and i just had this feeling im not a virgin and have been wtih mark all this time and i left mark 
i remember meeting a persian woman at the beuaty parlor and she said ill do anything for more beauty and my daughter is a virgin and i think i made too big a deal about virginity ih ad the tess story in me also and i think in some ways the book can be a harmful book to read  
and i  think that TEss would have done well with teh God of israel he likes the virgins refusal and doesnt like sex seeking women and if i were in heaven id call myself tess 
i listened to st paul and wanted dto be a virgin who loves God and i stayed away from men since age 25 and i felt that God is the one who loves you and a man just has sex with you 
i liked to play love songs and offer it to God and i felt that this tess novel in me prepared my heart for the bible and i just wanted to be a virgin valued by God 

--- On Wed, 1/7/09, Charles.Anesi at wellsfargo.com <Charles.Anesi at wellsfargo.com> wrote:

From: Charles.Anesi at wellsfargo.com <Charles.Anesi at wellsfargo.com>
Subject: RE: [Hardy-l] Re: Thoughts on 'Tess'
To: hardy-l at coyote.csusm.edu
Date: Wednesday, January 7, 2009, 5:42 PM

>While I have tended to look upon Alec as Hardy's stereotyped 
>Victorian melodramatic villain, Hardy does give Alec greater 
>dimension in that having seduced her he genuinely wants to love and
'possess' her 

I agree.  Polanski's Alec reminded me of Snidley Whiplash.  It was nice
to see a believable Alec for a change.  Seems to me that Alec has gotten
a bad rap -- regardless of his motives, Alec did a lot more for Tess and
her family than Angel ever did.  

The thing that has always perplexed me about the novel and its
dramatizations is the innocence of Tess.  Farms girls (or just country
girls) ignorant of the facts of life are extremely rare or possibly
nonexistent, from my observations. This incongruity hit me again as I
heard Tess, in dialogue lifted directly from the novel, complain that
her mother failed to warn her of the perils of men-folk.  Seemed
preposterous.        


Chuck Anesi
charles.anesi at wellsfargo.com
office 480-575-3478
cell 612-940-3345
fax 480-575-3519
 
** These opinions are strictly my own and not necessarily those of Wells
Fargo **

This message may contain confidential and/or privileged information. If
you are not the addressee or authorized to receive this for the
addressee, you must not use, copy, disclose, or take any action based on
this message or any information herein. If you have received this
message in error, please advise the sender immediately by reply e-mail
and delete this message. Thank you for your cooperation.


_______________________________________________
Hardy-l mailing list
Hardy-l at coyote.csusm.edu
http://coyote.csusm.edu/mailman/listinfo/hardy-l




      
-------------- next part --------------
An HTML attachment was scrubbed...
URL: http://coyote.csusm.edu/pipermail/hardy-l/attachments/20090108/ed4d7e17/attachment.html