Social Critisism Flashcards
What quote is said through the omniscient narrator in phase the 1st to criticise the judgement of people and what is the context?
‘However our impulses are too strong for our judgement sometimes’ - parson acts as a mouthpiece for Hardy, saying that people don’t judge properly before acting. This is shown when John durbeyfield adores the parsons treatment and falls for it
What quote in phase the 1st compares Jacobean society to Victorian society using Tess and her mother comparatively and what does it suggest?
‘When they were together the Jacobean and Victorian ages were juxtaposed’ - this comes after Tess is praised for being motherly, educated and having immense pride, therefore suggesting that those in Victorian society are better educsted
What quote in phase the 1st shows Tess’ maternity and motherlike actions, perhaps critiquing society and showing a generational change?
‘Tess became humanely beneficent towards the small ones’
On the night Tess is raped, why do we feel as though Alec is getting closer to Tess and what quote supports this?
Tess is in town with the country people, when Alec shows up and says ‘what my beauty - you here so late?’
In phase the 3rd, what key social rule did Angel break and how does this reflect the double standard in society?
Angel was nearly ‘entrapped by an older woman’ meaning he was close to adultery with an older woman, and he tells this to Tess openly, whereas Tess feels the need to keep this hidden from him
At the end of phase the third, what is a key quote which foreshadows the true nature of Angel and how he accepts Tess, relating to her being ‘imperfect’?
‘It was the touch of imperfect upon the would be perfect that gave the sweetness’
What is a key quote in phase the second, where Hardy attempts to get the reader to empathise with Tess despite her going against ‘society’?
‘She had been made to break an acceptable social law’
At the start of phase the fourth, what key question shows that society discriminate towards Tess, and their marriage?
‘Dared he to marry her? What would his mothers and brothers say?’
Key quote in phase the fourth by Angel’s mother, showing that she wants him to marry somebody of standard, and why does Angel’s response add to tragedy?
‘Is she of a family such as you would care to marry into’/‘mercy chant is a lady’ - to which Angel responds by saying Tess is a lady, which makes the rejection worse
In phase the fourth, how does Tess transgress from social expectations, what is a quote to support this and why is this significant?
What is a key quote using irony in phase the fourth, where he criticises social conventions and says her qualities are what matter to him?
He says that ‘distinction does not consist in the facile use of a contemptible set of conventions, but in being numbered among those who are true, honest/as you are’
