Critics Flashcards
what kind of guy is brad?
Kristen Brady
“By giving increased prominence to the villainy of both Alec d’Urberville and Angel Clare, Hardy was able to half suggest that [Tess was more a passive victim of male aggression and idealisation than an active participant in her own disastrous fate”]
James “heck my man”
James Heffernan
rape
“To read Alec as a rapist is grossly to underestimate him. Like Satan, the role he jestingly but also revealingly plays, [he seeks not to pinion the body of his victim but to master her mind, to exploit her weakness”]
clear
Jane Shilling
[“Whatever happens to her, however cruel her destiny, she has a clear sense of herself, and the strength to remain true to it.] Which is more than can be said for either of the men whose passion is the instrument of her tragedy”
Mark “as if”
Mark Asquith
“Angel abandons her, masking his prurient disgust at her sexual history with spurious Christian principles”
Kath”Least” Rogers
Kathleen Rogers
“She is the least flawed of Hardy’s protagonists, but also the least human”
Sarah “Slayer”
Sarah Maier
tess
“Tess is a woman who embodies strong powers of will, reason, and moral integrity”
he’s a fan of alliteration
Tony Tanner
“It dogs her, disturbs her, destroys her. She is full of it, she spills it, she loses it.
Watching Tess’s life we begin to see that her destiny is nothing more or less than the colour red”
James “heck my man”
James Heffernan
Alecs Death
“She kills Alec because in seducing her a second time, he threatens to make her his
“creature”… to take possession of her soul”
Sarah “slayer”
Sarah Maier
Overcome
“Through her self-determination, Tess is able to overcome her past”
Johnathon Bailey
John Bayley
“Hardy was so jealously protective of his heroine that he edited out her deflowering and a good deal more besides”
Sarah “slayer”
Sarah Maier
Angel
“Angel does not wish to educate Tess in order to encourage her emancipation; the education that he has in mind would further domesticate her”
Rehder likes to read
R.M. Rehder
“His idea of tragedy represents a combination of Greek, Shakespearean and Biblical tragedy”
