7997300
Description
Flashcards by Alice Vincent, updated more than 1 year ago
|
Created by Alice Vincent
over 9 years ago
|
|
| Question | Answer |
| "Natural shyness of the softer sex" | Women weaker then men |
| "White garmets, no whites were alike among them" | Different levels of white and purity |
| "white flowers" | Purity and nature |
| "few middle aged and even elderly women" | Critical of old age, symbolises loss of beauty |
| "Those under whose bodices the life throbbed quick and warm" | Women as sexual beings |
| "Some had beautiful eyes, others a beautiful nose, others a beautiful mouth and figure, few, if any had all" | Emphasis on apperance |
| "as each and all of them were warmed without by the sun" | Angelic, all important individuals |
| "she was a fine and handsome girl - not handsomer than some others" | Sets Tess apart from the rest, symoblic possession |
| "mobile peony mouth" | Nature, innocent like a flower |
| "she wore a red ribbon in her hair" | Sense of lust, danger and seduction |
| "i wont walk another inch with ye, if you say any jokes about him" | Tess embarassed by her father, protective |
| "The dialect was on her tongue to some extent, despite the village school" | Realistic diaglouge |
| "for all her bouncing womanliness" | Hardy's intrusion, sexualising Tess |
| "three young men of a superior class" | class division |
| "uncribbed uncabined aspect" | open minded, allusion to mcbeth, his open mindedness and spirit foreshadows to a time where he will be full of doubts and fears |
| "implying that he had hardly as yet found the entrance to his professional groove" | Not found himself yet, self- consious |
| "I am inclined to go and have a fling with them. Why not all of us just for a minute or two - it will not detain us long?" | Angels willingness not to cornform to society's class division |
| "troop of country hoydens" | Three brothers are embarassed to be seen by the girls/ class divide |
| "pedigree, ancestral skeletons, monumental record, the D'urberville lineaments, did not help Tess in her life's battle yet" | Her new found 'ancestry' has not helped her in life, ironic as it hinders her later on in the book |
| "his eyes lightened on Tess Durbeyfield" | When Angel first saw Tess |
| "Bending himself to a rapid walk, he dismissed the subject from his mind" | distance between lovers |
| "they did not speak so nicely as the strange man had done" | The country girls are picky about men |
| "Tess could boast of were in main part of her mother's gift" | Inherited beauty from mother |
| "There was a dreaminess, a preoccupation, an exaltation, in the maternal look which the girl could not understand' | dream- like state |
| "A sort of halo, an occidental glow" | Fairy-tale image |
| "but she's tractable at bottom. leave her to me" | Tess's mother can easily manipulate her/ Tess is easily manipulated |
| "but Joan Durbeyfield must mind that she don't get green malt in flower" | Local boozers talk about Tess and her mother, this is an idiom for 'Innocent woman pregnant out of wedlock" and foreshadows the rape of Tess |
| "Tess sat up in bed, lost in a bague interspace between a dream and this information" | Tess in a dream world, no clue of reality |
| "A blighted one" | Tess answering her sibling's question, shows her pessimistic view of the world, and maybe Aurthorial intrusion as Hardy was a well known pessimistic writer |
| "from the wound his life's blood was spouting in a stream, and falling with a hiss into the road" | Brutal imagery |
Want to create your own Flashcards for free with GoConqr? Learn more.