![]() This ultimately foreshadows Anastasia’s sadness at the end of the novel – when she realises that she should have stayed away from Christian. Anastasia should then know that she should stay away from Christian, and Christian is telling her this by sending her this card. She demonstrates this when she rejects José’s advances, recognising them as advances. She does have her friend, Katie however to help her, and by Tess’s logic, because Anastasia reads books, she should know enough about men, and the danger they could present to her. Like Tess, Anastasia is an innocent virgin, and does not know much about men. Tess chastises her mother as she was not warned by her mother about the dangers of men. ![]() ![]() Anastasia is writing an essay on ‘Tess’ at the novels start, and after interviewing Christian Grey, he sends her copies of first editions of ‘Tess.’ Enclosed is a card with the quote: ‘Why didn’t you tell me there was danger? Why didn’t you warn me? Ladies know what to guard against, because they read novels that tell them of these tricks.’ This quote is spoken to Tess by her mother, after she is raped by Alec D’Urberville. E.L James’s ‘Fifty Shades of Grey’ is no literary masterpiece, but what intrigued me the most about it was the numerous references to Thomas Hardy’s ‘Tess of the D’Urbervilles.’ For me personally, it is this that makes the book problematic. ![]()
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