Places in Tess of the D’Urbervilles. Places are very important in this story. We are going to talk about them and how each one reflects Tess’s mood.

Marlott: Marlott was Hardy's name for Marnhull.

Tess was born and lived her childhood in Marlott. It is a small village where Tess and her family lived, when she had problems she went there to rest.

“A few weeks after the night in the Chase, on a Sunday morning in late October , Tess was walking towards her home village of Marlott . She was carrying her belongings in a heavy basket. She walked, she was thinking sadly about how much her life had changed in the past few months”

“When the carriage Tess was riding in approached Marlott she got out and continued to her home on foot. Tess found her mother washing the clothes, as usual.

She was also very unlucky and miserable in her village:

“She lit a candle and woke her younger brothers and sisters. She poured water into the washbasin and told the children to stand around her. Then she took he dying baby and help him next the basin .One of her sisters held the player book open as Tess performed the baptism”.

Tess wanted to baptise her baby but he died, she buried “Sorrow” there.

“In spite of all Tess care, by morning little Sorrow was dead”

Talbothays: The real name is Talbots.

It is a clearly beautiful valley where Tess began working because there nobody knew her past. She found a job as a milkmaid.

“ The field and farms of the Valley of the Great Dairies were much larger, and Tess saw more cows than she had ever seen before. The beauty of the valley made Tess feel much happier, and she started to sing a song she remembered from church”

And there she meets new friends Izz, Retty, Marian, and Angel Clare.

“That night, in the big bedroom she shared with three other dairymaids, one of the girls told Tess about all the people who worked in the dairy”

Over here, Angel and Tess fall in love with each other.

“Tess and Angel began to see more of each other. They were often the first two people to get up in the morning. They started to fall in love.”

“Yes, Angel dearest, I do love you,” laughed Tess as Angel kissed her cheek “

Flintcombe-Ash:

“In the winter, when there was no more work in the dairies, she heard there was work on a farm at Flintcombe-Ash…” “The land Tess passed through was bleak and bare. It reflected the sadness of her mood” “The ground was full of stones…There was not a tree or a green pasture anywhere in sight…” Tess was miserable here and she worked very hard . “They worked bent over all day long pulling vegetables out of the ground…they were blown by the wind and soaked by the rain…Tess’ only pleasure was talking about the sunny days at the Talbothays dairy and about Angle Clare. “…that day the farmer gave Tess the most difficult job. Tess had to stand next to the machine and feed the corn into it. It was backbreaking work… ” “Then, she saw Alec D’Urverbiles coming towards her across the fields”

Sandbourne:

It’s a fashionable town by the sea. Bournemouth is a large coastal resort town in the ceremonial country of Dorset, England. Bournemouth appears as Sandbourne.

“Sandbourne was a town by the sea. Angel went there by train and found a room in a hotel. He walked around the town looking for Tess. It seemed strange to him that she was living in a place where there was no farm work“

Here is the place where Tess killed Alec. He ruined Tess’s life and he said to her a lot of horrible things about Angel, husband’s Tess, so Tess killed him.

“You don’t know what has happened,Angel. I wrote to you but you, but you didn’t come to me. Then Alec found me and told me I was a fool. He said you would never come back. I was desperate and he helped my family”

“ I have returned to Alec. He’s upstairs. I hate him; he lied to me. He said you wouldn’t return. You have come back to me, but now everything is ruined. There can be nothing between us now, Please Angel, leave here and never come back”

“Angel” began Tess as she reached him, “I’ve killed him I had to, Angel. I never loved him and he ruined my life”

Stonehenge: It’s one of the most famous landscapes in the world. It’s also a unique place in the world whose origins and background are unknown.

In this place, even the wind seems to be special. In the story, it’s in this mystic place where Tess is arrested.

“They were walking across Salisbury Plain when Angel bumped into a huge stone standing in a circle with other large stones. ”This must be Stonehenge, Tess !” exclaimed Angel”.

”As the sun began to rise… Do you think we will?

“I’m glad, Angel. I suppose this happiness has to end... towards the policemen

In this place, she is tired and sad. Interesting page to visit: http://mysite.verizon.net/hardycountry/tesscountry.html

Project by:

José Ignacio Fortis Pérez Raquel Márquez Gómez Antonio Peña Cisneros

María Auxiliadora Ortigosa Gutiérrez

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