Quotes by theme

Question 1

The past: the amphitheatre / dark pasts

Answer 1

Casterbridge ‘concealed dead men of Rome’

Question 2

The past: restoring corn / restoring the past

Answer 2

‘To fetch it back entirely is impossible; Nature won’t stand as much as that’ - (DF to MH)

Question 3

The past: the past as a burden

Answer 3

‘Encumbered with no recollections’ (referring to EJ)

Question 4

The past: MH attempts to return to the past

Answer 4

‘You’ll take my surname now’ (MH to EJ)

Question 5

The past: MH rejects past

Answer 5

‘Judge me by my future works’ (MH to SH)

Question 6

Nature: CB as surrounded by nature (3 quotes)

Answer 6

‘stockade of gnarled trees’
‘engirdling trees’
‘rectangular frame of deep green’

Question 7

Nature: contrast between nature and humans (auction scene)

Answer 7

‘peacefulness of inferior nature’

Question 8

Nature: MH is punished for not working w/ nature

Answer 8

‘monotonous smiting of earth by heaven’

Question 9

Nature: nature as an obstacle

Answer 9

‘springes formed by the brambles’

Question 10

Nature: contrasting characters’ emotions

Answer 10

‘The freshness of the September morning’ (MH, after auction)

Question 11

Gender: LT’s sexuality is treated differently than MH’s

Answer 11

'’Tis a humbling thing for us, as respectable women, that one of the same sex could do it’

Question 12

Gender: implicit connotation of men with strength / bravery

Answer 12

‘Say the words out like a man’

Question 13

Gender: Hardy disagrees with MH’s view of what was appropriate for women

Answer 13

‘other ideas reigned then’

Question 14

Gender: EJ is defined by her beauty by CB

Answer 14

‘as soon as CB though her artful it thought her worth notice’

Question 15

Gender: MH is aware of the double standards against LT

Answer 15

‘was of course ruin to her’

Question 16

Gender: SH is defined by her appearance

Answer 16

‘the only attraction of the young woman’s face’

Question 17

3 quotes about class

Answer 17

‘My poverty does not press me down’
‘Blood built it and wealth enjoys it’
‘no right to sit there in judgement of me’

Question 18

3 quotes about women

Answer 18

• ‘was of course ruin to her’
• ‘as soon as CB thought her artful it thought her worth notice’ / ‘the only attraction of the young woman’s face’
• ‘tis a humbling thing for us, as respectable women’

Question 19

2 quotes about men

Answer 19

• ‘it’s womanliness sat tragically’
• ‘say the words out like a man’

Question 20

quotes about fate / nature / external force

Answer 20

• ‘it’s ourselves that are ruled by the powers above’ (DF)
• ## ‘nothing is as you wish it’ (SH)

Question 21

5 quotes about the past

Answer 21

• CB ‘retained the primitive habit of helping one another in time of need’
• CB ‘concealed the dead men of Rome’
• ‘judge me by my future works’
• ‘to fetch it back is entirely impossible - nature won’t stand as much as that’
• ‘encumbered with no recollections’