Tess Quotes Flashcards
Nature and modernity quotes
‘Untinctured by experience’
‘The fields never brown and the springs never dry’
‘An immeasurable social chasm was to divide our heroines personality thereafter’
Sorrow= ‘that bastard gift of shameless nature’
‘What a fresh and virginal daughter of nature that milkmaid is’
‘Tess in her recent life had never so happy as she was now… Physically and mentally suited among these new surroundings’
‘The wen I have been loving is not you… Another woman in your shape’
‘Thus Tess walked on; a figure which is part of the landscape; a field-woman pure and simple’
Threshing machine= ‘red tyrant that the woman has to serve’
‘She had all the best of me without the bad of me’
Tess is hung in the city- ‘large red building’ links to red tyrant.
Social criticism quotes.
‘You are the lineal representative of the ancient and knightly family of the d’Urbevilles…’
‘Tis because we be on a blighted star’
‘An immeasurable social chasm was to divide our heroines personality thereafter’
‘Why didn’t you tell me there was danger?… Ladies know what to guard against because they read novels… I haver had the chance of discovering in that way’
‘So passed away sorrow the undersured-that intrusive creature, that bastardised first of seamless nature who respects not the civil law’
‘I am not good enough-not worthy enough’
‘The women I have been loving is not you… Another woman in your shape’
‘How can forgiveness meet such a grotesque prestigiyation as that’
‘I was your master once… If you a re any mans wife you are mine!’
Tess injustice and fate quotes.
‘Tis because we be on a blighted star, and not a sound one…’
‘Tess d’Urbevilles mailed ancestors… Had dealt the same measures even more ruthlessly towards peasant girls of their time’
‘I wish I had never been born’
‘Never in her life… Had she ever intended to do wrong’
‘Once victim,always victim- that’s the law’
‘It is as it should be’
‘Justice was done and the president of the immortals… Had ended his sport with Tess’
