Ch14

Question 1

Quote showing threshing machine

Answer 1

Rabbits,hares,snakes,rats,mice,retreated

Question 2

Significance of reaping machine

Answer 2

Commentary on the decimation of the country side.Animals represent the people forced to move into the cities,urban world encroaches on the countryside and destroys lives

Question 3

Quote showing sarcastic tone regarding Tess’s baby

Answer 3

The baby’s offence against society in coming into the world

Question 4

Quote showing the beauty of Tess in the baptism

Answer 4

Her eye-pupils shone like a diamond

Question 5

Quote showing Tess becoming almost pure and forgiven during the baptism

Answer 5

Abstracted from her form and features the little blemishes

Question 6

Quote showing where child was buried and how church is unforgiving in true nature

Answer 6

Corner of God’s allotment where he lets the nettles grow

Question 7

Significance of the revealing of Tess’s child

Answer 7

-Reveal makes her “shame” visible to others and criticises Tess’s condemnation whilst men like Alec face few consequences
-Child is a living symbol of Tess’s suffering his brief life shows how Tess’s trauma is overlooked by society
-Sorrow symbolises how innocents suffer in a cruel indifferent world

Question 8

Significance of the baptism of sorrow

Answer 8

-Compassion of Tess contrasts sharply with the coldness of institutional religion
-Baby’s name reflects Tess’s own feelings at that point
-Use of light and shadow adds to the emotional intensity and solemnity of the moment