chapter 3 quotes Flashcards
“M W T, W H N, A A, L O T E O T W”
“Monday washing tub, which now, as always, lingered on to the end of the week”
- nothing gets done/finished in the Durbeyfield house
- amount of children prevents Joan from fulfilling her duty as a mother, properly
“T C F T”
“The complete fortune teller”
- a book of old superstitions
- book ties into the idea of everything being controlled by an external force
- Joan uses for guidance
“A C F F”
“A curious fetishistic fear”
- Tess is also superstitious of the bool due to her mother
- reminds us Tess is only a child and still uses her parents as guidance
- tragic because her parents are irresponsible and easily influenced
“W I D U A G M?”
“Will it do us any good mother?”
- tess asking Joan about the discovery of their heritage
- she’s skeptical and arguably wiser than her parents, not as easily convinced
- her parents are blinded at this idea of new prosperity
“W T W T T J A T V A W J”
“when they were together, the Jacobean and the Victorian ages were juxtaposed”
- Hardy is highlighting their cultural and educational differences
- ‘Tess’ was set before the 1870 education act, she would have been taught by someone trained in London, and therefore speaks differently to the local dialect
“A T Y S W P I T D S”
“all these young souls were passengers in the Durbeyfieldship’
- theme: fate.
- this quote is typical of a naturalistic novel, as naturalism believes that our future is widely decided by our inheritance and environment.
- The children have no control over their fate according to this quote.
- once a ship has sailed it is hard to change course
- This is a factor into Tess’s tragic end, because she was not taught of the dangers of men
