Tess Of the D'Urbervilles Quotes Flashcards
“peony mouth”
Phase 1: the maiden
Chapter 2
Innocence and purity, Tess blends in eight he vale around her.
“When they were together the Jacobean and Victorian are juxtaposed”
Phase 1: the maiden
Chapter 3
Unity of Time, shows how modern Tess is in her own home.
“blighted one”
Phase 1: the maiden
Chapter 4
Linking to fate and foreshadowing, shoes how cynical Tess is and that she understands the situation she is in
“like a sword”
Phase 1: the maiden
Chapter 4
Symbolic, a noble death for a Prince. Foreshadowing Tess’ death
“nobody blames Tess like she blames herself.”
Phase 1: the maiden
Chapter 4
Tess is the most responsible in her family.
“breadwinner”
Phase 1: the maiden
Chapter 4
The horse is the person who generates money, not the father. Context
“full lips, badly moulded”
Phase 1: the maiden
Chapter 5
Contrasts Tess’ mouth, suggesting he more experienced and has darker intentions.
“thus the thing began.”
Phase 1: the maiden
Chapter 5
Link to fate, foreshadowing what will happen between Alec and Tess.
“not the first mother compelled to love her offspring resentfully.”
Phase 1: the maiden
Chapter 9
Context, morals and beliefs in Victorian society.
“owing to this fog, which so disguises everything.”
Phase 1: the maiden
Chapter 11
Pathetic fallacy, the fog hides the evil of the rape.
“it was to be.”
Phase 1: the maiden
Chapter 11
Links to fate, the idea that it is inevitable Tess would get raped.
“T’is mater, after all, and what do please God.”
Phase 2: Maiden no more
Chapter 12
Link to fate, the idea her rape was a will from God. Context of lower class girls.
“she looked upon herself as a figure of Guilt intruding into the haunts of Innocence.”
Phase 2: Maiden no more
Chapter 13
Metaphor showing how Tess feels out of place in her home.
“they did not blame her.”
Phase 3: the Rally
Chapter 23
Glimmer for hope for Tess as she realises people don’t always blame her.
“her eyes open, yet unseeing.”
Phase 3: the Rally
Chapter 24
Metaphor showing how after all that has happens, she is still naive.
“the impressionable peasant leads to larger, fuller, more dramatic life than the pachydermatous King.”
Phase 4: the Consequence
Chapter 25
Link to tragic hero and whether the common man is more fitting.
“her ripe mouth tragical”
Phase 4: the Consequence
Chapter 27
Contrasts the initial description of her mouth, showing how much she has gone through.
“society is hopelessly snobbish.”
Phase 4: the Consequence
Chapter 30
Context to Victorian society and how they were obsessed with status and reputation.
“she accordingly drifted into passive responsiveness to all things her lover suggested”
Phase 4: the Consequence
Chapter 32
Context, women were very submissive to their husbands in Victorian society.
“Elizabethan bridge.”
Phase 4: the Consequence
Chapter 34
Unity of Time, the couple are travelling to a less modernised place.
“quick tempered.”
Phase 5: the Woman Pays
Chapter 36
An example of her hamartia.
“like the majority of women, she accepted the momentary presentment as if it were the inevitable.”
Phase 5: the Woman Pays
Chapter 36
Hardy is suggesting women believe everything happens because of fate.
“Gods not in his heaven; all’s wrong with the world.”
Phase 5: the Woman Pays
Chapter 37
Linking fate to God, and how his absence creates disorder.
“he was incensed against his fate.”
Phase 5: the Woman Pays
Chapter 40
Angel doesn’t understand why fate had given him an impure girl.
“no railway had climbed as yet”.
Phase 5: the Woman Pays
Chapter 44
Flintcomb-Ash is an isolated area untouched by the Industrial Revolution.
“that’s just like you women. Your mind is enslaved to his.”
Phase 6: the Convert
Chapter 46
Linking to fate and a Victorian woman’s morals.
“once a victim, always a victim - that’s the law.”
Phase 6: the Convert
Chapter 47
Foreshadowing her death, also referring to unspoken rules of Victorian society.
“Tess had descended with such hopes and ascended with such shattered purposes.”
Phase 7: fulfilment
Chapter 54
Summarising the metaphor of the landscape in Hardy’s Wessex and how it foreshadows what will happen in each location.
“Ixionian wheel”
Phase 7: fulfilment
Chapter 56
Unity of Time. Ixion was a wrongdoer condemned by the Gods to be chained to wheel which would spin forever. Maybe how Tess feels / is portrayed and linking to the Wheel of Fortune.
“older than the centuries; older than the d’Urbervilles.”
Phase 7: fulfilment
Chapter 58
Unity of Time, suggesting there are more important things before her ancestors.
“the President of the Immortals had ended his sport with Tess.”
Phase 7: fulfilment
Chapter 59
Tess’ fate finally caught up with her, and she is finally at peace.