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... nature of things against his characters , that he is manipulating fate against them . Hardy's worst failure here is certainly ' Father Time's ' killing of Sue's children in Jude , and his suicide : ' Done because we are too menny ...
... nature of things against his characters , that he is manipulating fate against them . Hardy's worst failure here is certainly ' Father Time's ' killing of Sue's children in Jude , and his suicide : ' Done because we are too menny ...
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... nature fights against Henchard , but it is nature interpreted by superstition ; and it is the poetic quality of the whole that makes the superstition credible . The poetry heightens and deepens our sense of Henchard's tragic fate . Two ...
... nature fights against Henchard , but it is nature interpreted by superstition ; and it is the poetic quality of the whole that makes the superstition credible . The poetry heightens and deepens our sense of Henchard's tragic fate . Two ...
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... nature something like a law obliging the artist to a fanatical scrupulosity , as it were a physical incapacity to depart from nature's truths in exchange for any other . This is as inescapable as the requirements of geometry . The ...
... nature something like a law obliging the artist to a fanatical scrupulosity , as it were a physical incapacity to depart from nature's truths in exchange for any other . This is as inescapable as the requirements of geometry . The ...
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