Tess of D'Urberville

Question 1

Presentation of Jack Durbeyfield

Answer 1

Pg3 Empty egg-basket
Pg3 rickety legs, bias gait
Pg3 patch…quite worn away at its brim where his thumb came in taking it off

Question 2

Presentation of Blackmoor/Marlott

Answer 2

Pg9 engirdled and secluded region…fertile and sheltered tract of country
Pg9 Fields never brown and the spring never dry
Pg9-10 dark green…azure…ultramarine

Question 3

Indications that Marlott isnt what’s it as it seems

Answer 3

Pg10 hollow trunked trees

“the serpent hisses where the sweet birds sing” [pg 87]

Question 4

Presentation of Tess at Mayday dance

Answer 4

Pg11 Each had a private little sun for their should to bask in
Pg12 “mobile peony mouth
Pg11 “red ribbon in Tess’s hair” among the “white company”

Question 5

Initial presentation of Angel

Answer 5

uncribbed, uncabined

Question 6

Presentation of Tess’s house

Answer 6

Pg18 yellow melancholy of this one-candle spectacle

Question 7

Presentation of the Durbeyfield household

Answer 7

Pg23 passengers of the Durbeyfield ship…. Little captives

Question 8

Prince’s death

Answer 8

The pointed shaft of the cart had entered the breast of the unhappy Prince like a sword,

his life’s blood was spouting in a stream” [pg 34]
splashed from face to skirt with the crimson drops.

stood firm and motionless as long as he could; till he suddenly sank down in a heap” [pg 34]

Question 9

Presentation of Alec

Answer 9

smoking…black moustache

touches of barbarism in his contours”

“She parted her lips and took [the strawberries] in … in an abstracted half-hypnotized state” [pg 44]

Question 10

The pre-lude to the Chase

Answer 10

“Darkness and silence ruled everywhere around … Where was Providence?” [pg 83]
“This beautiful feminine tissue… and practically blank as snow…coarse pattern as it was doomed to receive” [pg 84]

Question 11

Alec self apology

Answer 11

a damn bad fellow. I was born bad, and I have lived bad, and I shall die bad

remained like a marble term while he imprinted a kiss upon her cheeks… as though she were nearly unconscious

Question 12

Church Sermons at Marlott

Answer 12

“THY, DAMNATION, SLUMBERETH, NOT.” [pg 92]

Against the peaceful landscape, the blue air of the horizon…these staring vermilion words shone forth” [pg 92]

Question 13

Tess arriving at Talbothays

Answer 13

On these lonely hills and dales, her quiescent glide was of a piece with the element she moved in… an integral part of the scene”

shreds of convention, peopled by phantoms and voices antipathetic to her…
a cloud of moral hobgoblins

break an accepted social law, but no law known to the environment

Question 14

Description of Tess’s baby Sorrow

Answer 14

Pg 107“little prisoner of flesh”

The ecstasy of faith almost apotheosised her”

“that bastard gift of shameless Nature who respects not the social law” [pg 111]

Question 15

Tess decides to go to the Tlabothays

Answer 15

“The irresistible, universal, automatic tendency to find sweet pleasure somewhere” [pg 122]
“Court beauty on a palace wall; copied… the outline of Alexander, Caesar, and the Pharaohs” [pg 124
milk oozed forth and fell in drops to the ground.” [pg 124

Question 16

Images of sexuality at Talbothay natural world

Answer 16

Mists of pollen” “profusion of growth” “blooming weeds”[pg 145
“drew forth the buds and stretched them into long stalks,

Question 17

Mutual idelisation between Tess and Angel

Answer 17

“Tess seemed to regard Angel Clare as an intelligence rather than as a man” [pg 148]“

virginal daughter of Nature” [pg 141] (old copy)

deeming his preoccupation to be no more than a philosopher’s regard of an exceedingly novel, fresh, and interesting specimen of womankind.” [pg 153]
“Artemis, Demeter”

Question 18

Biological determinism in terms of sexuality

Answer 18

“they were converging, under an irresistible law, as surely as two streams in one vale.

Question 19

Cruelty of nature and sexuliarty

Answer 19

like a great inflamed wound in the sky” [pg 160]
“Three Leahs to get one Rachel” [pg 171]

writhed feverishly under the oppressiveness of an emotion thrust on them by cruel Nature’s law… had neither expected nor desired.

Question 20

The fundamental sexual drive

Answer 20

Pg185 flesh and blood could not resist it…He was driven towards her by every heave of his pulse
Pg 189 see life… unwarped, uncontorted, untrammeled by those creeds which futilely attempt to check what wisdom would be content to regulate.

Question 21

Angels’ parents’ altruism

Answer 21

Pg200 “The only pain to me was pain on his account.”

Question 22

Tess’s innate sexual drive

Answer 22

Pg202 the red interior of her mouth as if it had been a snake’s
Pg 203 She regarded him as Eve at her second walking might have regarded Adam
Pg203 the ardour of his affection being so palpable that she seemed to flinch under it like a plant in too burning sun

Question 23

(The parallels of Angel and Alec)

Answer 23

Pg204 she had not calculated upon this sudden corollary (Angel’s proposal)
Pg221 blackberries..would fling the lash of his whip

Question 24

Commenting on the fact that Tess must reveal her past when accepting

Answer 24

Pg212 Snatch ripe pleasure before the iron teeth of pain could have time to shut upon her

Question 25

Train station setting

Answer 25

Pg223 they reached the feeble light, which came from the smoke lamp of a little railway station;
[pg223 a poor enough terrestrial star
Pg22. Modern life stretched out its steam feeler… touched the native existence and quickly withdrew its feeler again, as if what it touched had been uncongenial
Pg223 hissing of the train

Question 26

Tess’s idealised love for Angel

Answer 26

Pg230 There was hardly a touch of earth in her love for Clare
Pg230 more spiritual than animal

Question 27

Tess’s trauma never dissipated

Answer 27

Pg233 it enveloped her as a photosphere… keeping back the gloomy spectres that would persist i their attempts to touch her
Pg233 she knew they were waiting like wolves just outside the circumcrsinning light

Question 28

The fireplace talk whereby Tess and Angel confesses

Answer 28

Pg268 this red-coaled glow, which fell on his face and hand, and on hers…pressings her forehead against his temple

slid down upon her knees beside his foot, and from this position, she crouched in a heap

Forgive me as you are forgiven! I forgive you

Her cheek was flaccid, and her mouth… a round little hole

Question 29

Indifference of surrounding via objective correlative

Answer 29

Nothing in the substance of things. But the essence of things had changed
All material objects around announced their irresponsibility with terrible iteration

Question 30

Angel’s basis for rejecting Tess

Answer 30

“Another woman in your shape”…a guilty woman in the guise of an innocent one
I thought by giving up…a wife with social standing,… I should secure a rustic unsophistication as surely as I should secure pink cheeks
Pg286-287 lay hidden a hard logical deposit…had blocked his way with the Church; it blocked his way with Tess

Question 31

Depiction of nature

Answer 31

Pg290 vulpine slyness of Dame Nature…hoodwinked by her love for Clare into forgetting it might result in vitalization that would inflict upon others what she had bewailed as a misfortune to herself.

Question 32

Tess starts to desire death

Answer 32

Pg294 If only they could fall together, and both be dashed to pieces, how fit, how desirable
Pg297 stepping out of her stone coffin…that beatific interval was over

Question 33

Changing setting of the Talbothays after Tess’s confession

Answer 33

Pg299 The gold of the summer picture was now grey, the colors mean, the rich soil mud, and the river cold

Question 34

Changing setting of Marlott after Tess’s confession

Answer 34

Pg306 beheld casually that the beds had been shifted… Her old bed had been adapted for two younger childer. There was no place here for her now.
Pg307 the perception that her word could be doubted even here, in her own parental house, set her mind against the spot.

Question 35

Angel approaching his family home

Answer 35

Pg309 Clare found himself descending the hill…the tower of the church rose into the evening sky…
Pg309 humanity… the pensive sweetness of Italian art, to… the leer of a study by Van Beers

Question 36

Angel’s internal conflict

Answer 36

Pg309 ‘Be not perturbed’ said the pagan moralist…But he was perturbed. ‘Let not your heart be troubled…’ said the Nazarene…but his heart was troubled all the same.
Pg310 This was what he had got by apostasy, and his punishment was deserved
Pg313 words of King Lemuel…a virtuous woman… looketh well to the ways of her household, and eateth not the bread of idleness.
Pg315 slave to custom and conventionality

Question 37

Angel tries to seduce Retthy

Answer 37

Pg320 Why not be revenged on society by ruling his future domesticities himself, instead of kissing the pedagogi rod of convention
Pg321 fell into reverie…momentary levity…incredible folly
Pg322she flung herself down on the bank in a fit of racking anguish

Question 38

Tess leaves Marlott for the third time for Flintcomb ASH

Answer 38

Pg324 instead of a bride with boxes and trunks which others bore, we see her a lonely woman with a basket and a bundle in her own portage
Pg330 several pheasants …some pulsating feebly, some contorted, some stretched out — all of them writhing in agony

Question 39

Tess defacing herself

Answer 39

Pg332 nipped her eyebrows off, and thus insured against aggressive admiration…’

Question 40

Setting of Flintcomb Ash landscape

Answer 40

pg334The stubborn soil, the air was dry and cold…roads were blown white and dusty

Question 41

Farming at Flintocomb Ash

Answer 41

Pg339 the rain raced along horizontally upon the yelling wind, sticking into them liek glass splinters

Question 42

Alec’s supposed conversipn

Answer 42

Pg363 The lip-shapes that meant seductiveness were now made to express supplication; … animalism had become fanaticism. Paganism Paulismins.
Pg364 the lineaments … seemed to complain….diverted from their hereditary connotation to signify impression for which nature did not intend them.
Pg365 He who had wrought her undoing was now on the side of the spirit, while she remained degenerate

Question 43

The converted Alec criticises Tess

Answer 43

Pg384 You temptress…you dear witch of Babylon
Pg385 ever since his reformation seemed to wake and come together as in a resurrection.
He went out indeterminately, hardly responsible for his acts

Question 44

Mechaised farming at Flintcomb Ash

Answer 44

Pg386 red tyrant kept up a depsotic demands upon the endurance of their muscles
Pg386 the engine which was to act as the primum mobile of this little world
Pg388 He was in the agricultural world, but not of it. He served fire and smoke

Question 45

Tess and Alec broke into violence

Answer 45

Pg394 scarlet oozing appeared where her blow had alighted

Pg394 I was your master once! I will be your master again. If you are any man’s wife you are mine.

Question 46

Angel’s self realisation

Answer 46

“He was Crivelli’s dead Christus” [pg 438]
“he had seen the virtual Faustina in the literal Cornelia,
eyes were blinded with tears” [pg 441]

Question 47

Tess’s father’s grave

Answer 47

“In Memory of John Durbeyfield, rightly D’Urberville, of the once powerful family of that Name…” [pg 444]

Question 48

Presentation of sandborne

Answer 48

“Yet the exotic had grown here, suddenly as the prophet’s gourd;

Question 49

Death of Alec

Answer 49

“a gigantic ace of hearts.” [pg 455]

Question 50

The only true happiness Tess and Angel felt

Answer 50

“his horror at her impulse amazement at the strength of her affection” [pg 459]
“empty mansion”, “the rooms were all in darkness”, “shutters were tightly closed” [pg 462]
“A shaft of dazzling sunlight reveled carved running figures… Atalanta’s race” [pg 463]

Question 51

Tess and Angel arrive at the Stonehenge

Answer 51

“Tess, really tired by this time, flung herself upon an oblong slab” [pg 468]
“the stone was warm and dry, in comforting contrast to the rough and chill grass around”

Question 52

The setting of Stonehenge

Answer 52

whole enormous landscape bore that impress of reserve, taciturnity, and hesitation

Question 53

Tess wants Angle to marry Liza Lu

Answer 53

She has all the best of me without the bad of me; and if she were to become yours it would almost seem as if death had not divided us” [pg 469
“This happiness could not have lasted. It was too much. I have had enough;

Question 54

Labouring at Flintomb Ash with machines

Answer 54

Pg397 shaken bodily by its spinning…had thrown her into a stupefied reverie in which her arms worked on independently from her consciousness
Pg397 long red elevator like Jacob’s ladder, on which perpetual steam of threshed straw asencede