Tess of D'Urberville Flashcards
Presentation of Jack Durbeyfield
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
Presentation of Blackmoor/Marlott
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
Indications that Marlott isnt what’s it as it seems
Pg10 hollow trunked trees
“the serpent hisses where the sweet birds sing” [pg 87]
Presentation of Tess at Mayday dance
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”
Initial presentation of Angel
uncribbed, uncabined
Presentation of Tess’s house
Pg18 yellow melancholy of this one-candle spectacle
Presentation of the Durbeyfield household
Pg23 passengers of the Durbeyfield ship…. Little captives
Prince’s death
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]
Presentation of Alec
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]
The pre-lude to the Chase
“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]
Alec self apology
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
Church Sermons at Marlott
“THY, DAMNATION, SLUMBERETH, NOT.” [pg 92]
Against the peaceful landscape, the blue air of the horizon…these staring vermilion words shone forth” [pg 92]
Tess arriving at Talbothays
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
Description of Tess’s baby Sorrow
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]
Tess decides to go to the Tlabothays
“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
Images of sexuality at Talbothay natural world
Mists of pollen” “profusion of growth” “blooming weeds”[pg 145
“drew forth the buds and stretched them into long stalks,
Mutual idelisation between Tess and Angel
“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”
Biological determinism in terms of sexuality
“they were converging, under an irresistible law, as surely as two streams in one vale.
Cruelty of nature and sexuliarty
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.
The fundamental sexual drive
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.
Angels’ parents’ altruism
Pg200 “The only pain to me was pain on his account.”
Tess’s innate sexual drive
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
(The parallels of Angel and Alec)
Pg204 she had not calculated upon this sudden corollary (Angel’s proposal)
Pg221 blackberries..would fling the lash of his whip
Commenting on the fact that Tess must reveal her past when accepting
Pg212 Snatch ripe pleasure before the iron teeth of pain could have time to shut upon her
Train station setting
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
Tess’s idealised love for Angel
Pg230 There was hardly a touch of earth in her love for Clare
Pg230 more spiritual than animal
Tess’s trauma never dissipated
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
The fireplace talk whereby Tess and Angel confesses
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
Indifference of surrounding via objective correlative
Nothing in the substance of things. But the essence of things had changed
All material objects around announced their irresponsibility with terrible iteration
Angel’s basis for rejecting Tess
“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
Depiction of nature
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.
Tess starts to desire death
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
Changing setting of the Talbothays after Tess’s confession
Pg299 The gold of the summer picture was now grey, the colors mean, the rich soil mud, and the river cold
Changing setting of Marlott after Tess’s confession
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.
Angel approaching his family home
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
Angel’s internal conflict
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
Angel tries to seduce Retthy
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
Tess leaves Marlott for the third time for Flintcomb ASH
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
Tess defacing herself
Pg332 nipped her eyebrows off, and thus insured against aggressive admiration…’
Setting of Flintcomb Ash landscape
pg334The stubborn soil, the air was dry and cold…roads were blown white and dusty
Farming at Flintocomb Ash
Pg339 the rain raced along horizontally upon the yelling wind, sticking into them liek glass splinters
Alec’s supposed conversipn
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
The converted Alec criticises Tess
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
Mechaised farming at Flintcomb Ash
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
Tess and Alec broke into violence
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.
Angel’s self realisation
“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]
Tess’s father’s grave
“In Memory of John Durbeyfield, rightly D’Urberville, of the once powerful family of that Name…” [pg 444]
Presentation of sandborne
“Yet the exotic had grown here, suddenly as the prophet’s gourd;
Death of Alec
“a gigantic ace of hearts.” [pg 455]
The only true happiness Tess and Angel felt
“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]
Tess and Angel arrive at the Stonehenge
“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”
The setting of Stonehenge
whole enormous landscape bore that impress of reserve, taciturnity, and hesitation
Tess wants Angle to marry Liza Lu
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;
Labouring at Flintomb Ash with machines
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
