Ch31

Question 1

Quote showing perfection of Angel

Answer 1

“She thought every line in the contour of his person the perfection of masculine beauty;his soul the soul of a saint”

Question 2

Analysis of “she thought every line…the perfection of masculine beauty;his soul;the soul of a saint”

Answer 2

-Places Angel on pedestal
-Idealises him like he idealises her,both characters guilty of seeing each other as symbols rather than people
-His masculine beautiful is undermined in his fragility when faced with Tess’s weakness

Question 3

Quote showing dangerous imagery of the past

Answer 3

Dismissed the past trod upon it and put it out,as one treads on a coal that is smouldering and dangerous

Question 4

Analysis of “dismissed the past trod upon it and put it out,as one treads on a coal that is smouldering and dangerous”

Answer 4

-Imagery of dangerous threat of the past
-Metaphor of ‘smouldering coal’ creates idea of the coal not being able to go out,similarly to Tess being unable to escape the past reflecting the fatalistic view of the novel

Question 5

Quote showing the imaginative and impassioned love for Tess

Answer 5

“Love more inclined to the imaginative and erethral”

Question 6

Analysis of “love more inclined to the imaginative and ethereal”

Answer 6

-Shows his impassioned love for Tess
-Reflects his own idealised version of Tess and her purity,reflecting the rigid moral doctrines of society
-Has a fantasy view of what the love should be like