Technical vocab Tess

Morbid interest in sexual matters (Victorian readership)

Prurient, salacious, Lascivious

Unable to be changed (Tess)

Obstinate, obdurate, held in aspic - believes she’s a thing of shame

To do with the Church (Mr. Clare)

Ecclesiastical

promiscuous sex (Alec)

debauchery

Tess as the perfect wife

Archetypal, quintessential,

Alec’s change from predatorial to religious

Transmogrification

Scheming(Alec)

conniving

Insensitive (society in general)

Impervious

Decayed (the d’urbeville name)

decrepit

Seeming/apparent (Tess’s apparent reason for going to the d’urbevilles is for financial help, but in actuality, her family hope she will be married off to become a ‘lady’)

ostensible

reject (tess)

rebuff

Harmonious (Talbothays)

Euphonious

Rooted in nature (Talbothays)

Biophilic

Condemn (Hardy)

Vituperate, excoriate

fate is pre-ordained

determinism

Alec after converting

sanctimonious hypocrite

Excluded from society

ostracised, marginalised, social pariah

Inevitable

Inexorable, ineluctable

Seasonal movement of livestock - akin to Tess, she is a symbol of Nature

transhumant pastoralism

Relating to the countryside

Bucolic setting

Forest like - rape scene

sylvan

rural

agrestic

disobedient

recalcitrant

weakened

atrophied

urge/provoke action - tess’s family about her going to ‘seek kin’ at the Slopes

goaded

hypocritical - angel

pharisaical

Self blame - tess

Self-castigation

shameful

ignominious

hardships

tribulations

tess’s glorified lineage

exalted

predatory

rapacious

someone who believes the world can be improved through deliberate human effort and action - Hardy

Meliorist

Public outcry

furore

way of thinking

paradigm - angel rejects his father’s religious paradigm

mariam is laila’s narrative…

counterpart