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Tess says, Once victim, always victim thats the law. In the light of this remark, explore ways in which Hardy presents Tesss experiences in Tess of the DUrbervilles.
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While this essay contains lots of interesting information it lacks focus and clarity. It could be improved in the following ways:
- by making a clear plan before beginning to write, in which each paragraph directly tackles the question set.
- by including a topic sentence at the beginning of each paragraph which relates back to the question and gives the reader a clear sense of how the argument of the essay is developing.
- by quoting from the text rather than the critics, and by ensuring that all quotations from secondary sources are acknowledged, and fully understood!
Marked by teacher Val Shore 17/06/2112
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Tess says, 'Once victim, always victim - that's the law.'
In the light of this remark, explore ways in which Hardy presents Tess's experiences in Tess of the D'Urbervilles.
Thomas Hardy wrote "Tess of the D'Urbervilles" in 1891 during the height of the Victorian ideals where society was restrictive to individuals and appeared controlling to its members. Tess is a modern character, who is the easiest victim of circumstance, society and male idealism. She fights the hardest fight yet is destroyed by her ravaging self-destructive sense of guilt, life denial and the cruelty of two men. Tess Durbeyfield is a victim of external and incomprehensive forces. Passive and yielding, unsuspicious and fundamentally pure, she suffers a weakness of will and reason, struggling against a fate that is too strong for her.
It is primarily the death of the horse, Prince, the Durbeyfield's main source of livelihood that commences the web of circumstance that envelops Tess. Tess views herself as the cause of her families economic downfall, "Nobody blamed Tess as she blamed herself... she regarded herself in the light of a murderess." The use of 'nobody' at the beginning of the sentence emphasises the extent of
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While this essay contains lots of interesting information it lacks focus and clarity. It could be improved in the following ways:
- by making a clear plan before beginning to write, in which each paragraph directly tackles the question set.
- by including a topic sentence at the beginning of each paragraph which relates back to the question and gives the reader a clear sense of how the argument of the essay is developing.
- by quoting from the text rather than the critics, and by ensuring that all quotations from secondary sources are acknowledged, and fully understood!
