2/7/2021Tess

Ibrahim 2022-04-19 09:02:43

Life inspiration from the movie: Wedding ceremony: organ musical instruments Girls wearing white dresses with floral ornaments and dancing in circles until dusk blows the sea breeze / Picking strawberries and roses to make brooches / Newlywed Yaner giving his wife ancestral earrings and necklaces Learn English by the way: just a whim of mine on a whim/antiquarian archaeologist/chasten yourself by thinking...feeling guilty thinking about XX/don't be so forward/do you a mischief/you look good/claim kin confession/coax her into anything Coaxed her to promise everything/coy shy/stone blind is completely blind/all is vanity Storyline: Sir John accidentally learned that he had a noble family tree, and sent a slightly reluctant Tess to cling to the rich relative Mrs. Deborah but was deceived/ Bring Tess to pick bright red strawberries and pink roses / Make crosses and white chrysanthemums on the baptismal cemetery for illegitimate children / Angel Claire scorn old family / The two marry each other under the witness of the priest. Why can't the male protagonist forgive Tess? Did Tess' ignorance cost her, one was physical possession, the other was spiritual pure possession. Imaginative: Tess's story reminds me of the girls in "Resurrection" and "Gone With the Wind". Should you be toyed with by men? Rape, abandon, make use of, the men in Tess' life are unreliable, sent to cling on by an alcoholic father, deprived of virgin by a distant cousin, unforgivable by a man he likes, envied by women, coveted by men , Just like in "The Beautiful Legend of Sicily", those men who can't get the heroine will despise her, and they will stink the grapes if they can't get them!

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Tess quotes

  • John Durbeyfield: I'm the head of noblest branch of the family and I got my pride to lean on.

    [passes out]

  • Alec d'Urberville: Tell me, do you like strawberries?

    Tess: Yes, when they're in season.

    Alec d'Urberville: Here they already are.