Dreams Flashcards
Paragraph 1
(TGG + TRM)
Thomas Hardy
The dreams of lower class women are presented as futile and pointless in TGG, however in TRM her dreams become possible despite her lower class and barrier to love.
1) “Valley of ashes”
2) “her life violently extinguished, knelt in the road and mingled her thick dark blood with the dust” (Blood mixing with dirt / ash)
3) “With the influence of the dress her personality had also undergone a change”.
TRM-
1) “You used to call home-life a hag-ridden dream, and you’d sigh and you’d sock”
2) “And now you have bracelets and bright feathers three!”
3) “Your hands were like paws then”, “little gloves fit as on any a lady”
Paragraph 2
(TGG + SWIB)
Lord Byron
In both texts, women are made to be the object of peoples dreams and desires - so much so that they’re idealized in an obsessive-like way.
TGG-
1) “and Daisy, gleaming like silver, safe and proud above the hot struggles of the poor”
2)
3) “The green light”
SWIB-
1) “Like the night of cloudless climes and starry skies”
2) “Brow”, “Glow”, “Below” (Half rhymes).
3) “and all that’s best of dark and bright”.
Paragraph 3
(TGG + TRM)
Thomas Hardy
The American Dream / The Dream of rising in social class becomes the center of society, which causes old values to be abandoned in favor of the new dream.
TGG-
1) “The eyes of Doctor T.J Eckelburg are blue and gigantic - their retinas are one yard high”
2) “‘His eyes dimmed a little by many paintless days, under sun and rain, brood on over the solemn dumping ground”
3) “‘Terrible place isn’t it’, said Tom, exchanging a frown with Doctor Eckleburg”
TRM-
1) “but now you’re talking quit fits ‘ee high for compa-ny!”
2) “You left us in tatters, without shoes or socks”
3) “You ain’t ruined, said she”.
