Quotes by theme Flashcards
The past: the amphitheatre / dark pasts
Casterbridge ‘concealed dead men of Rome’
The past: restoring corn / restoring the past
‘To fetch it back entirely is impossible; Nature won’t stand as much as that’ - (DF to MH)
The past: the past as a burden
‘Encumbered with no recollections’ (referring to EJ)
The past: MH attempts to return to the past
‘You’ll take my surname now’ (MH to EJ)
The past: MH rejects past
‘Judge me by my future works’ (MH to SH)
Nature: CB as surrounded by nature (3 quotes)
‘stockade of gnarled trees’
‘engirdling trees’
‘rectangular frame of deep green’
Nature: contrast between nature and humans (auction scene)
‘peacefulness of inferior nature’
Nature: MH is punished for not working w/ nature
‘monotonous smiting of earth by heaven’
Nature: nature as an obstacle
‘springes formed by the brambles’
Nature: contrasting characters’ emotions
‘The freshness of the September morning’ (MH, after auction)
Gender: LT’s sexuality is treated differently than MH’s
'’Tis a humbling thing for us, as respectable women, that one of the same sex could do it’
Gender: implicit connotation of men with strength / bravery
‘Say the words out like a man’
Gender: Hardy disagrees with MH’s view of what was appropriate for women
‘other ideas reigned then’
Gender: EJ is defined by her beauty by CB
‘as soon as CB though her artful it thought her worth notice’
Gender: MH is aware of the double standards against LT
‘was of course ruin to her’
Gender: SH is defined by her appearance
‘the only attraction of the young woman’s face’
3 quotes about class
‘My poverty does not press me down’
‘Blood built it and wealth enjoys it’
‘no right to sit there in judgement of me’
3 quotes about women
- ‘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’
2 quotes about men
- ‘it’s womanliness sat tragically’
- ‘say the words out like a man’
quotes about fate / nature / external force
- ‘it’s ourselves that are ruled by the powers above’ (DF)
- ## ‘nothing is as you wish it’ (SH)
5 quotes about the past
- 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’
