Chapter 8
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- Created on: 29-09-15 12:41
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- Chapter 8
- Hardy devotes the entire chapter to an account of the journey to Tantridge
- How is the account of the journey used to characterise
- Alec
- sexual and violent
- 'Tib has killed one chap'
- 'Why, I always go down at full gallop'
- 'Hold on to my waist'
- wants to kiss her
- blackmailing her
- Tess
- finds herself in danger
- forced to hold on to him
- 'she grasped his waist and so they reached the bottom'
- At his mercy on a horse
- intelligent
- 'You artful hussy!'
- has a temper and passionate spirit
- 'You ought to be ashamed of yourself for using such wicked words' cried Tess with Spirit'
- 'D'Urberville's bad temper cleared up at the sight of hers'
- Alec
- set the tone of their relationship
- Setting is changing
- 'behind. the green valley of her birth, before, a grey country of which she knew nothing except her brief visit to Tantridge'
- Setting is changing
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