Phase 4- The consequence Flashcards
…torturing ecstasy…pleasure girdled about with pain
Antithetical suggests love as pleasure and pain
She’s brim full of poetry-actualized poetry…she lives what paper-poets only write
Idealises Tess
…she regarded him as Eve at her second waking might have regarded Adam.
Biblical Reference
…as if trying to make to open air drive away her sad constraint
Tess find reprieve in nature
…two ardent hearts against one poor conscience
Love is a physical struggle of biological desire against social laws and conscience
Tess had never before known a time in which the thread of her life was so distinctly twisted of two strands, positive pleasure and positive pain
Simultaneous extremes of Tess’s emotions
No object could have looked more foreign to the gleaming cranks and wheels than this unsophisticated girl…
Talbothays as out of sync with rest of modernisation and industrialisation, Tess as a symbol of rural life, incongruous to new setting
…her instinct for self-preservation was stronger than her candour.
Guilt as Tess’s hamartia
The ‘appetite for joy’ which pervades all creation, that tremendous force which sways humanity to its purpose, as the tide sways the helpless weed was not to be controlled by vague lubrications over the social rubric.
Social vs Natural laws, NARRATIVE INTERVENTION, places her happiness over social constructs, her succumbing to Angel was fated
…he was all that goodness could be…perfection of masculine beauty…soul of a saint…intellect…of a seer
Tess’s idealisation of Angel
…like the skim of a bird which has not quite alighted.
Comparison of Tess to a bird
…who had been caught during her days of immaturity like a bird in a springe.
Comparison of Tess to a Bird (MRS DALLOWAY COMPARISON)
She had deserved worse yet she was the chosen one.
Fate presides and overtakes her life
…like a torrid waste…in this red-coaled glow…each diamond on her neck gave a sinister wink like a toad’s…
Lead up to Tess’s confession
