Narrative Flashcards
1
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How does serialisation the narrative of a text
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- Victorian literature has a fairly leisurely pace as the story was published in instalments and the author could not afford to disclose the main plot too soon
2
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How does serialisation affect tess
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Hardy unlike most Victorian authors does not rely on subplots to maintain momentum
- he uses picaresque structure get focusing on only very few central characters
3
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The pace of Tess
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- has relatively few adventures b to the changing effect of these are life changing
- Hardy aims for a long anticipated build up to the single event
4
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How does a hardy use dialogue to explore characterisation
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- Tess not allowed any eloquence in her speech: her purity lies in her simplicity ; her complexity in her unspoken feeling
5
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Alec and Angel dialogue
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Much more eloquent - indicates they are less sincere and more persuasive/ manipulative. Words are a form of power for them, power over the much more inarticulate Tess
6
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Examples of melodrama
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- Alecs murder, with the blood dripping through the ceiling
- the deaths of the slaughtered pheasants around Tess
- Angels sleepwalking
- the durbeyfields camping out by Kingsbere vaults
7
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Symbolic melodrama
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- Tess’s boots being found by Mercy Chant
- the sign painter with his texts in red paint
- Tess’s letter slipping under carpet
8
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Letters first half
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- few letters
- Hardy omits letter time angel that falls under carpet - this letter would be interesting as throughout the novel the details of Tess’s liaison with Alec are left fairly obscure
- Joans letter to tess- he missspells giving the letter a comical aspect , illuminated the inter generational advancement in education
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Letters second half
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- absence is a growing factor, letters are more frequent but not plentiful (Angel forbids her to write)
- Hardy uses letters to suggest non- communication or communication too late or disregarded - this is intensified by the fact that all letters must past through
