Thomas Hardy sometimes uses the landscape to reflect mood of his characters.

Thomas Hardy sometimes uses the landscape to reflect mood of his characters.

Choose two brief extracts (about two pages each) where he does this; one

when Tess is happy and another when she is not. How does Hardy reflect

Tess's mood through landscape in these extracts?

1) Thomas Hardy sometimes uses the landscape to reflect mood of his

characters. Choose two brief extracts (about two pages each) where he

does this; one when Tess is happy and another when she is not. How

does Hardy reflect Tess's mood through landscape in these extracts?

How does Lawrence use setting and place in 'Tickets Please'? How do

these two writers manage to convey a sense of the time at which these

stories are written?

The first extract I have chosen to analyse in Tess of the

D'Urbervilles when Tess is happy is In the Rally XVI on page 132-134.

This melts in to the happy mood of Tess as she has set out from home

for the second time to the Talbothays dairy, where she meets Angel. In

employing the Nature motif into Hardy's work, he has been able to use

it to describe the character feelings. The second extract in which

nature echo's Tess's not so happy mood is 'The Maiden No More' XVI,

pages 109-110.

Hardy has used the language in the Rally XVI extract to show what

state of mind Tess is in. Firstly he uses adverbs that help to set the

mood, and give the landscape a more vivid description. Examples of

some of the adverbs Hardy uses are, 'luxuriantly', 'intensely',

'wonderfully', 'profusely', 'continually'. These words are all

associated with happiness and cheeriness and do not give the text a

sense of gloom, and are generally enthusiastic words. Tess also

describes the landscape as being, 'more cheering' in the Rally, and

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...ters have used the settings to set their characters moods.

Hardy has distinctly done this making it quite obvious for a reader to

pick out grammatical and philosophical elements. Lawrence has used the

setting to determine what will happen to the characters and what sort

of climax or twist that he wants to build into the story. This is

evident in the beginning of Tickets Please when a gloomy atmosphere is

set, making one of the protagonist's Annie, feeling dull and not

aroused. Then Lawrence uses the exciting funfair to set the mood of

love and passion, and then finally the climax of the fight, fortified

by description of the room.

In conclusion both writers have similar ways of expressing the scenery

through usage of grammatical tools, but different ways of displaying

this, and have variations in their style of writing and the intensity

of the language.