Resistance to change
- Created by: Emily
- Created on: 10-06-15 14:24
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- How far do you agree that writing in the pastoral tradition reflects a resistance to change
- Tess
- Modern developments and change portrayed negatively
- The railways 'poor enough terrestrial star' stood in humiliating contrast to natures 'celestial ones'
- The countryside- and therefore tradition- presented as better than modernity and change
- The 'hissing' of the train
- Choice of hissing- references to Satan in Eden, and corruption of nature
- The railways 'poor enough terrestrial star' stood in humiliating contrast to natures 'celestial ones'
- Social change- Tess's suffering is a result of being caught between changing worlds
- Angel symbolises changes in ideas, e.g. spirituality
- 'rather ideally'
- Alec and Angel are the cause of Tess's suffering- linking change to distress
- Alec represents social change- a middle class family posing as nobility
- 'everything looked like money'
- Alec and Angel are the cause of Tess's suffering- linking change to distress
- Angel symbolises changes in ideas, e.g. spirituality
- Hardy shows resistance to mechanisation in 'The consequence'
- Threshing machine- 'red tyrant', 'insatiable swallower'
- Analyse tyrant- mechanisation as cruel and oppressive
- Engineer- 'creature of the trophet', 'plutonic master', 'served fire and smoke'
- Hellish imagery- expresses Hardy's view on agricultural change
- Threshing machine- 'red tyrant', 'insatiable swallower'
- Modern developments and change portrayed negatively
- Pastoral Poetry
- Agricultural developments are portrayed as against nature
- The Mower against Gardens
- 'Adulterate fruit'
- Adulterate- suggests sinful, against God, corrupt
- 'forbidden mixtures'
- 'Forbidden' demonstrates extreme resistance- it is not allowed
- 'Adulterate fruit'
- The Mower against Gardens
- National change has negative consequences
- The Deserted Village
- 'A garden, and a grave'
- While Britain blooms the countryside .
- 'Wealth accumulates and men decay'
- 'Virtues fled'
- Change leads to rural virtues
- Changes force rural people to emigrate
- to 'poisonous fields' and 'intolerable days'
- 'A garden, and a grave'
- The Deserted Village
- Social commentary suggests change is necessary
- Elegy
- Poverty prevented rural people reaching their potential
- 'Chill Penury repressed rage'
- Prevented them from being the next 'Hampden', 'Milton' or 'Cromwell'
- 'Their lot forbad'
- The voice suggests this is unfair- it is implied that he would welcome change
- Poverty prevented rural people reaching their potential
- Elegy
- Agricultural developments are portrayed as against nature
- AYLI
- Change presented positively
- Duke Fredericks conversion
- 'Thrown into neglect the pompous court'
- Oliver's change of character
- Comparison of Orlando and Oliver at the start of the play and at the end
- Duke Fredericks conversion
- Change is responsible for resolution of issues and uniting lovers
- Move from court to forest has positive effects...
- Allows Rosalind and Orlando to confess their love for each other
- Oliver's change of character
- Comparison of Orlando and Oliver at the start of the play and at the end
- Move from court to forest has positive effects...
- Change presented positively
- Tess
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