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Tess of the d'Urbervilles Critical Essay #2
In the following excerpt, Yale University critic Miller discusses interpretations of the novel, focusing on its repetitive structure.
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episodes of Tess of the dUrbervilles take place in a line, each following
the last. Ultimately they form a row traced out in time, just as Tess's course
is traced across the roads of southern England. Each episode in Tess's life,
as it occurs, adds itself to previous ones, and, as they accumulate, behold,
they make a pattern. They make a design traced through time and on the landscape
of England, like the prehistoric horses carved out on the chalk downs. Suddenly,
to the retrospective eye of the narrator,...
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