Simplified: Tess of the D'Urbervilles Characters (copy)
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25 Terms
Jack’s lack of self-respect
“I’ll sell the title… a thousand pound… a hundred… twenty!”
Parson Tringham
“You are extinct… gone down, gone under.”
“How are the mighty fallen.”
Tess caring for her siblings
“a deputy maternal attitude”
Joan’s accusative nature
“Why didn’t ye think of doing some good for your family?”
Tess’s Neotenous features
“mobile peony mouth and large innocent eyes”
Tess’s narrative objectification
“bouncing handsome womanliness”
“a luxuriance of aspect, a fulness of growth”
“her top lip was distracting, infatuating, maddening”
Tess’s Lack of Experience
“untinctured by experience.”
Tess’s Passivity
“she stood helplessly”
“Do what you like with me, mother.”
Alec’s control of Tess
“she was more pliable under his hands”
“She sat now, like a puppet.”
Tess’s confusion and betrayal
“I was a child… why didn’t you tell me there was danger?”
Sorrow the Undesired
“little prisoner of the flesh”
“a child’s child”
“Her darling was about to die, and no salvation.”
Tess’s Self-perception
“She regarded herself in the light of a murderess.”
“She looked upon herself as a figure of guilt.”
Hardy’s elevation of Tess
“Our heroine”
“a divine personage”
Tess’s Dream State
“Tess fell more deeply into a reverie than ever.”
Car Darch
“till lately a favourite of D’Urbervilles”
Tess trying to overcome her pride
“She would be the dairymaid Tess and nothing more.”
Alec promising his death
“I’ll never do it any more against your will. My life upon it now!”
Flintcombe Asch
“starve Acre place”
Tess’s innocence
“never in her life had she ever intended to do wrong”
Alec’s house
“everything looked like money”
“red brick lodge”
“crimson” - colour imagery
Alec posessive
“my big beauty”
“my pretty girl”
“my pretty coz”
Alec evil
“kiss of mastery”
“stole a kiss”
“you temptress Tess”
the chase foreboding
“but where was Tess’s guardian angel?”
Angel mean
“the woman I have been loving is not you”
“you were one person, now you are another”
