Phase 1 description of Tess- "vessel of emotion tinctured by experience’
Prince's death- "Blighted star"
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D'Urberville mansion-"Everything looked like money - like the last coin issued from the Mint"
Tess's guilt at Prince's death- ‘Tis all my doing’. ‘Tess felt it with a dreadful sting of remorse’
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Tess' ****: 'where was Tess's guardian again?"
Alec and Tess: But I don't want anybody to kiss me, sir!
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Fate after the ****- 'It was to be.' There lay the pity of it"
****: 'immeasurable social chasm"
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Tess' innocence: ‘You did not tell me there was danger in men-folk’
When Alec sees Tess in Phase 2- 'Bad fellow’ and ‘you shall have by return whatever you require’
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Tess's change status- “She would be dairymaid Tess and nothing more”
Biblical signs Thou shalt not commit ‘The words entered Tess with accusatory horror’
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‘Lineal representative of the ancient and knightly family of the d’Urbervilles’
John's fatal error- John deciding to not sell Prince’s body- ‘I won’t sell his body. ‘When we were knights of this land. He served us well and I won’t part with him now’
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Joan sending Tess ‘to claim kin’
Tess’ beauty (her fatal)- ‘she was a fine and handsome girl’ and ‘her large innocent eyes’. ‘Mobile peony mouth’. ‘Wore a red ribbon in her hair’
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Alec’s predatory nature- ‘a thorn of the rose remaining in her breast, that accidentally pricked her chin’
Alec’s description of Tess- ‘my pretty girl’/ ‘my pretty coz’
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Kiss of mastery’ by Alec’
Tess binding in the field in Phase 2- ‘her moral sorrows’ begin to fade
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Landscape always in flux- ephemera: ‘compounded of old landscape long forgotten’
Tess is described as ‘a fly on a billiard table of indefinite length’
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Angel’s love affair of Tess: ‘genuine daughter of Nature’
Tess sees Angel as an ‘intelligence’
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‘A visionary essence of a women’
The spirit of the age: ‘the ache of modernism’
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“I wish I had never been born' - After Angel leaves
Compared to the Greek goddesses ‘Artemis’ and ‘Demeter’
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‘My poor, poor Tess, my dearest darling Tess! So sweet, so good, so true!’” P. 279. Angel's dream- Freudian
“`Dead! dead! dead!’”
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Tess sees the plight of the pheasants- relates to their suffering.“Under the trees several pheasants lay about, their rich plumage dabbled with blood; some were dead, some feebly twitching a wing
Tess's death- “Justice was done, and the President of the Immortals, in Aeschylean phrase, had ended his sport with Tess.”
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Meeting Angel- Phase 1. Tess's pride would not allow her to turn her head again'
socially mobile- ‘passed sixth standard’ and ‘spoke two languages’
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Tess's beauty- She was akin to the landscape" "Daughter of Nature
****- "where was Tess's guardian again?"
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The ****- ‘I was a child when it happened '
The ****- "blue narcotic haze"
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Sorrow's death- 'unmarked grave'. 'lack of legitimacy". "Where all unbaptized infants, notorious drunkards, suicides and others of the conjectural condemned are laid"
rural acceptance of Tess- ‘the village was shutting its eyes’
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Tess to Angel- "Call me Tess,"
Tess compared to her ancestors ‘Her fine features were questionably traceable in these exaggerated forms’
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Other cards in this set
Card 2
Front
D'Urberville mansion-"Everything looked like money - like the last coin issued from the Mint"
Back
Tess's guilt at Prince's death- ‘Tis all my doing’. ‘Tess felt it with a dreadful sting of remorse’
Card 3
Front
Tess' ****: 'where was Tess's guardian again?"
Back
Card 4
Front
Fate after the ****- 'It was to be.' There lay the pity of it"
Back
Card 5
Front
Tess' innocence: ‘You did not tell me there was danger in men-folk’
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