The past and forgiveness

Question 1

The ring- inescpapable past

Answer 1

“Its associations had about them something sinister, its history proved that”

Question 2

Furmity woman- outing past

Answer 2

“The man who sold his wife in that fasjion is the man sitting there in that great big chair”

Question 3

Susan- capacity to forgive

Answer 3

“You may judge, and forgive if you can a woman you once deeply wronged, as she forgives you”

Question 4

Lucettes determination to bury the past

Answer 4

“I have taken her name- as a means of escape from mine”
“I don’t value such past matters”
“I won’t be a slave to the past- Ill love where i choose”
“The one condition which will make any future happiness possible for me is that the past connection between our lives be keot secret”

Question 5

The grusome history of Casterbridge

Answer 5

“Casterbridge announced old Rome in every street”
“An old hoary place o’ wickedness”

Question 6

The door

Answer 6

“A door in the wall which was studded with rusty nails speaking of a generation before”

Question 7

Henchard’s past expereinces dictate him

Answer 7

“If any of his men be ever so little overtook by a drop, he’s down upon em”
“Unduly sensitive on such points by reason of his past”

Question 8

The continuity of Henchard’s past impulsivity and irascibility

Answer 8

“There was a temper under the thin bland surface, the which, artifically intensified, had banished a wife”