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Summary Points
Tess’s journey from
Marlott to the Cricks’
dairy in the Valley of the
Great Dairies three years
on from previous
chapter
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On her walk she
sings to herself an almost
pagan chant and soon
arrives at the dairy in
time for milking
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‘grew to rankness’ – a land of plenty but perhaps
too much
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Though happy the new valley is not quite the innocent idyll of Tess’s
childhood in Blackmoor: ‘There the water flower was the lily: the crowfoot
here
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‘Dark trees’ – represent the contrast between Tess’s new hope and the
ever-present shadow of her past
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Chapter XVI

Links to the Pastoral
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May- spring, the season of new beginnings and new life but also of hard work and hardship:
Tess’s newfound happiness and good fortune is accompanied by the blight of her past
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Hardy describes this particular journey as a ‘pilgrimage’
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Characterisation (make notes on
how the characters are
presented)
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Tess
Tess is somewhat recovered from the ordeal
of losing her child: ‘three years… silent
reconstructive years
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She is the image of the pagan singer and of
her heritage when she approximates her
beliefs with the Church chant
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Now in good spirits and ‘full of zest for life’
she begins anew
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The cows
The shadows of the cows here are described
to resemble those of Alexander Caesar and
the Pharaohs – pastoral- nature cares for Tess
when corrupt people won’t

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