Contrast the descriptions of Flint comb-Ash and Talbot hays showing how hardy uses the atmosphere of the places to reflect different stages in Tess’s life.
...r Alec, he raped her. A few weeks later Tess went back to be with her family, this shows that she cares for her family and what they think of her. When Alec raped Tess she fell pregnant because there was no contraception in the 19th century. When the baby was born Tess called the baby Sorrow, witch is a synonym of sadness, hardy is showing this because 3 months after the baby was born, it died. In the late eighteenth, early nineteenth centenary it was hard for a woman to have a baby outside of a marriage as it show that the woman is not pure and that they have had sex. After 2 years Tess decides to go and work at Talbot hays dairy farm, as she was walking towards Talbot hays it was “On a thyme scented bird hatching spring morning” Tess is happy and excited because she feels she can get a new start moving to Talbot hays. Tess has never visited this part of the contry before now yet she feels at home and safe here ‘Her hopes migled with the sunshine’ this quote shows Tess’s high spirts. A lot of things happen to Tess at Talbot hays. She is really happy and the main reason is that she meets a man called Angel Clare he is a young man that is on work experience at Talbot hays. Angel likes Tess because he thinks she is untouched by men, that she is still a virgin. Angel and Tess’s relationship is strong with love, after a year or so Tess and Angel get married. On there wedding night, Tess decides to tell Angel about her past, about and the rape. When Tess tells Angel about what happened in her past he acted selfishly and wanted time to himself, the reason he acted selfishly was because he had had sex before marraige and on perpose whereas tess got raped and couldnt stop alec. Angel moves to brazil to leave tess because he knows she is no longer a virgin. Tess returns to her family to give the money Angel gave to her before leaving to help them. Tess goes to Flintcomb-Ash this is not like Talbot Hays in the way that she ...