... the density of population, and whole new range of sights, sounds and sensations for Pip to adapt to. His fears are stated in the opening of lines of Volume II, chapter 1: "I had some faint doubts whether it was not rather ugly, crooked, narrow and dirty" (GE p163). There is a more subtle recognition of the differences where Pip describes, at the end ... Hardy's choice of subject matter for his narrative. However, as critics have noted, Tess is a transgressive work not only by virtue of its somewhat controversial narrative. At the beginning of chapter 2, Hardy describes the village of Ma...

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