Ch11

Question 1

Quote showing fog surrounding Angel and Alec

Answer 1

“A faint luminous fog enveloped them”

Question 2

Analysis of “a faint luminous fog enveloped them”

Answer 2

Fog cuts them off from help and allows Alec to rape her,Nature is an agent of Tess’s own fate,partially causing her own fate as it leaves Tess vunerable to Alec’s actions

Question 3

Quote showing Tess ‘sleepwalking’ into tragedy

Answer 3

Only once was she overcome by actual drowsiness

Question 4

Quote showing Tess feeling guilty about Alec giving the children toys

Answer 4

I almost wish you had not

Question 5

Quote showing Tess’s ruin from the rape

Answer 5

“Why so often the coarse appropriates the finer thus”

Question 6

Analysis of “coarse appropriates the finer”

Answer 6

Tess’s purity is ruined by the ‘coarse pattern’ of Alec,she was ‘doomed to recieve’ this showing unconsentual nature and shows how this has gone on for centuries

Question 7

Quote showing fate of Tess’s rape

Answer 7

“It was to be” there lay the pity of it

Question 8

Analysis of “ “it was to be” there lay the pity of it” and “an immeasurable social chasm”

Answer 8

Immesurable social chasm between the two meant this was bound to happen and has happened many times before
Fate and the gods have caused this to happen.Higher class men have abused and taken advantage of lower class women for centuries
-Social chasm shows how she will now be shunned from society and lose her identity as a ‘pure woman’

Question 9

Quote showing the setting and darkness having control in the rape

Answer 9

Darkness and silence ruled everywhere around

Question 10

Quote showing Tess being punished for her ancestors actions

Answer 10

“To visit the sins of the fathers upon the children”