Distance Learning AP English
Literature & Composition
Week 10
Agenda for 31 October 2011
•Attendance
•I’ll email Sungard Student Reports to site
Paraprofessionals tonight, when finished
•Cold-Call Responses to Study Questions,
Discuss Tess, chapters 25—30, and augment
your already copious notes
Advance Planner: Assignment Due Dates
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Today 10/31: read Phase the Fourth,
Chapters 25—30, Informal Oral Reports
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Tuesday 11/1 : Tess of the d’Urbervilles, read
Phase the Fourth, Chapters 31—34, Informal
Oral Reports
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Wednesday 11/2 : Tess of the d’Urbervilles,
read Phase the Fifth, Chapters 35—39,
Informal Oral Reports
Determinism
Hardy believed in the theory that
human beings’ free will is not enough
to overcome the tremendous forces
present in modern life, especially the
economic, social, physical, and
sensual forces. Follow Tess throughout
the story and note how her fate or
Tess Chapter 25
1.
In Chapter 25, one of the reasons for Angel’s
visit home is to ask advice of some of his
friends. What is the specific nature of that
advice? In what profession are Angel’s
brothers Felix and Cuthbert engaged? Whom
did his only sister marry and where is she
now?
Angel Clare decides to visit friends and sound them on the question of whether a farmer should marry a lady or a farmwoman. Emminster: Clare sees Mercy Chant—the woman whom his parents hoped that he would eventually marry. Reverend Cuthbert, the oldest brother, a scholar and
Cambridge dean. The eldest sibling is a sister, who married a missionary presently residing in Africa.
Clare’s family can see the change in Clare from scholar to farmer. Felix hopes that his youngest brother will remember that “high thinking may go with plain living” (176). Mrs. Crick’s present of
Tess Chapter 26
1.
In Chapter 26, as Angel tries to decide
whether he should marry a lady or a
farmwoman, we learn that his parents already
have someone in mind they would like to see
their son Clare marry. Who is it and what are
her social connections? How might this affect
Angel and Tess?
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Michaela Isbell
Clare’s father has set aside the unused
tuition money for land. Clare asks his father about a farm woman as his wife. Just as long as she’s Christian, is his father’s reply. Father and mother both push Mercy Chant. Angel defends Tess: “she lives what paper-poets only write” (180). The Clares’ middle-class prejudice is evident; nevertheless, they agree to see Tess. Angel’s experience with
"Is she of a family such as you would care to marry into--a lady, in short?" asked his startled mother, who had come softly into the study during the conversation.
"She is not what in common parlance is called a lady," said Angel, unflinchingly, "for she is a cottager's daughter, as I am proud to say. But she IS a lady, nevertheless--in feeling and nature."
"Mercy Chant is of a very good family."
"Pooh!--what's the advantage of that, mother?" said Angel quickly. "How is family to avail the wife of a man who has to rough it as I have, and shall have to do?"
"Mercy is accomplished. And accomplishments have their charm," returned his mother, looking at him through her silver spectacles.
"As to external accomplishments, what will be the use of them in the life I am going to lead?--while as to her reading, I can take that in hand. She'll be apt pupil enough, as you would say if you knew her. She's brim full of poetry--actualized poetry, if I may use the
expression. She LIVES what paper-poets only write... And she is an unimpeachable Christian, I am sure; perhaps of the very tribe, genus,
Tess Chapter 26
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Angel’s father speaks of a recent triumph over
a particular sinner in a theological debate.
Who is it? What might this foreshadow?
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Nikeisha Cross
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Father tells of his encounter with one
Tess Chapter 27
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Angel returns to Talbothays during the nap time
between milkings. When Tess awakens, Hardy makes
a Biblical allusion. To what two Biblical characters
does he allude? Explain the significance of this
allusion. Later, when Angel tells Tess about his
father’s encounter with landowner near Tantridge,
what is Tess’s reaction?
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Joshua Brann
Angel returns to Talbothays during nap
between milkings. Tess awakens, Adam and Eve allusion (187). Skimming time, Angel
dismisses Deborah, Tess tells Angel that she “cannot be your wife” it’s his parents. Angel has paved the way. Religion—High, Low,
Broad—is something Tess has no concept of; she only knows that some sermons make her sad. Angel tells Tess about his father’s
Tess Chapter 28
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In Chapter 28, why does Tess initially refuse Angel?
What does she wish somebody would tell Angel
about?
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Jalyn Jones
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Tess pressed to explain her rejection. “I’m not
worthy” (191). She loves him as he loves her, yes;
but to marriage, no. Tess wishes that somebody
would tell Angel about her past. Tess to tell of
Tess Chapter 29
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In Chapter 29, what happened to the
widow-woman with an annual income of 50£
who married Jack Dollop? Why is this story
significant? What mighty it foreshadow?
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Jessica Kendall
Jack Dollop marries; but not the matron’s
daughter. He marries a widow-woman with an annual income of 50£. But this income is lost when she remarries, a secret she kept from Dollop. The milkmaids are polled as to
whether the widow should have told in
Tess Chapter 30
1.
In Chapter 30, during their Wagon trip to
station, Tess and Angel pass an old
manor-house. What does Angel tell Tess about
its history? How is this significant? What is
Angel’s reaction when Tess tells Angel that
she’s a d’Urberville?
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Catherine Craig
Wagon trip to station: rhetoric of castles and
enchantment. Weather changes to rain. Tess, not dresses for this weather, must cover under sailcloth close to Angel. Tess must answer before the trip ends. They pass an old manor-house. Clare tells Tess its history as a d’Urberville estate. At the train station: rhetoric of modernity’s intrusion into the
pastoral. Return trip: Tess begins her story; she’s a d’Urberville. Angel is “uninterested in this news”
(205). Tess must use d’Urberville name; she prefers not. Allusion to Alec at The Chase. Tess doesn’t tell all. Yes! Tess “proves” her love with passionate
They crept along towards a point in the expanse of shade just at hand at which a feeble light was beginning to assert its
presence, a spot where, by day, a fitful white streak of steam at intervals upon the dark green background denoted intermittent moments of contact between their secluded world and modern life. Modern life stretched out its steam feeler to this point three or four times a day, touched the native existences, and quickly withdrew its feeler again, as if what it touched had been
uncongenial.
They reached the feeble light, which came from the smoky
lamp of a little railway station; a poor enough terrestrial star, yet in one sense of more importance to Talbothays Dairy and
mankind than the celestial ones to which it stood in such
Then there was the hissing of a train, which drew up almost silently upon the wet rails, and the milk was rapidly swung can by can into the truck. The light of the engine flashed for a second upon Tess Durbeyfield's figure, motionless under the great holly tree. No object could have looked more foreign to the gleaming cranks and wheels than this unsophisticated girl, with the round bare arms, the rainy face and hair, the suspended attitude of a friendly leopard at pause, the print gown of no date or fashion, and the cotton bonnet drooping on her brow.
She mounted again beside her lover, with a mute obedience characteristic of impassioned natures at times, and when they had wrapped themselves up over head and ears in the sailcloth again, they plunged back into the now thick night. Tess was so receptive that the few minutes of contact with the whirl of
material progress lingered in her thought.
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