Ch43

Question 1

What is a quote showing Flintcomb Ash

Answer 1

“Starve-Acre place”

Question 2

Analysis of “starve-acre place”

Answer 2

Harsh conditions of Flintcomb ash contrasted to Talbothays’s “long thatched sheds”
-More perjorative use of pastoral
-Dorset lowest agricultural wages of any county at the time

Question 3

Quote showing an anthropomorphic representation of the landscape presenting it as seemingly hurting within the story at Flintcomb Ash

Answer 3

“Outcrop of siliceous veins in the chalk formation

Question 4

Quote showing the women being dehumanised by their work at Flintcomb Ash

Answer 4

“Their movements showed a mechanical regularity”

Question 5

Quote showing the women being dehumanised by their work at Flintcomb Ash

Answer 5

“Their movements showed a mechanical regularity”

Question 6

Metaphor giving nature agency and showing it as actively participating and contributing in Tess’s suffering

Answer 6

It came on in stealthy and measured glides like the moves of a Chess player

Question 7

Quote showing new birds from north

Answer 7

“Gaunt spectral creatures”

Question 8

Quote showing Tess’s isolation and inescapability within both metaphorical society and physically at Flintcomb ash

Answer 8

“Like a bird caught in a clap net”