Linear And cyclic Time Patterns Flashcards
What do linear and cyclic time patterns represent?
A deterministic view of life
- Hardy’s pessimism
- reveals extensive nature of Hardy’s interpretation of determinism
What happens at the end of the text?
Tess emerges from the determining patterns of society and nature - moves out of conventional time into a moment that does not involve a concept of duration
What happens in Bramshurst court
Tess’s life takes on a new dimension - For Hardy, Tess’s triumph becomes possible only with the assistance and participation of the nan he loves
What does Tess remove herself from?
How does Hardy frequently present Angel and Tess?
In scenes occurring at either dawn or dusk ‘they met daily in that strange and solemn interval, the twilight of the morning’
- escaping the concept of time
What does Tess move away from?
The linear interpretation of her life that condemns her seduction by Alec
What can she realise with Angel’s love?
All the potentiality of her own personal tendency for neutralised time in which both the past and future seem cancelled out of the present
What happens in Brazil?
Angel gives up linear interpretation of time - no longer able to condemn Tess on the grounds he did after her wedding night confession
‘Had asked himself why he had not judged Tess constructively rather than biographically’
What does Tess lose a sense of?
Duration with Angel’s acceptance of her ‘I could walk for ever and ever with your arms round me’
