Seduction, Rape, and Coercion  

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Conly, Sarah

Jenis: Article from Journal - ilmiah internasional
Dalam koleksi: Ethics: An International Journal of Social Political and Legal Philosophy vol. 115 no. 1 (Oct. 2004), page 96-121.
Topik: Perselingkuhan; Sex; Morality; Legitimate

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Perpustakaan Pusat (Semanggi) Nomor Panggil: EE44.19 Non-tandon: 1 (dapat dipinjam: 0) Tandon: tidak ada

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In Tess of d'Urbervilles, the innocent Tess is object of Alec d'Urberville's dishonorable intentions. Alec uses every while he can think of to seduce the poor and ignorant Tess, who works keeping hens in his mother's house: he flatters her, he impresses her with a show of wealth, he gives help to her family to win her gratitude, and he reacts with irritation and indignation when she nonetheless continues to repulse his advances, causing her to feel shame at her own ingratitude and confusion as to what is right. Tess, anchored both her ownsense of virtue and her distrust of Alec's character, continues to hold out until one fatal night when, through Alec's machinations, they are lost together in a wood. At Tess's insistence Alec laves her to scout out the paqth not go into detail at this critical juncture. Rather, he reflects "why it was that upon this beautiful feminine tissue, sensitive as gossamer, and practically blank as snow as yet, there should have been traced such a coarse pattern as it was doomed to receive; why so often the coarse appropriates the finer thus, the wrong man the woman, the wrong woman the man, many thousand years of analytical philosophy have failed to explain to our sense of order."

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