Engines are ruining the countryside, imperfecting it, and turning it mechanical.

The environment in Tess’s world is being changed constantly. She is caught up in it all, and is overwhelmed by it.

“I wished to see that the characters were very confused, just as I am, at the particular change that was going on now, with machines”.

Machines are a very new invention, and they seem to process things much faster than the human hand can do.

In many ways, they can be bad. ‘The big red tyrant that the women had come to serve’. Machines seem to be like the devil, as is explained in this ex

Some topics in this essay:
Flintcomb Ash, D’Urbervilles Engines, Thomas Hardy, , portrayed book, “i hate,