PROSE
“TESS OF THE D’URBERVILLES”
I.
THEME
ANALYSIS
1. Faithfulness
a. Definition : The faithfulness is the action or
activity which always standing beside/ belief/ support/ keeping heart to the
people who loved to.
b. Quotation :
-
Chapter
29, page 88
“She loved him so passionately, and he was so
godlike in her eyes; and being, though untrained instinctively refined, her
nature cried for his tutelary guidance.”
c. Explanation :
It gave evidence that
in the story, there was the scene where Tess kept her feeling for Angel, the
one and only she loved.
2. Honesty
a. Definition : Honesty is the quality of being
honest
b. Quotation :
-
Chapter
30 page 91
“But my history. I want you to know it – you must
let me tell you – you will not like me so well!”
“ .. there was a trouble in my family; father was
not very industrious, and he drank a little.”
“I-I-am nor a Durbeyfield, but a d’Urbervilles –
a descendant of the same family as those that owned the old house we passes.
And – we are all gone to nothing!” said Tess to Angel.
c. Explanation :
It is clear there were
some honesty sentences showed by the character (Tess) who tells the true story
in her unlucky life to someone she believe (Angel).
3. Love
a. Definition : Love is a very strong feeling of
affection towards someone who you are romantically attracted to.
b. Quotation :
-
Chapter
30 page 92
“Now then, Mistress Teresa d’Urbervilles, I have
you. Take my name, and so you will escape yours! This secret is out, so why
should you any longer refuse me?” said Angel
“If it SURE to make you happy to have me as your
wife, and you feel that you do wish to marry me VERY, VERY much –“
“I do, dearest, of course!”
c. Explanation :
It’s so cool the
analyst takes this conversation among Tess and Angel when they were falling in
love and accept the weakness each other, no matter what has happened or what
will happen.
4. Sacrifice
a. Definition : Sacrifice means something that is
valuable or important; you give it up, usually to obtain something else for
yourself or for other people.
b. Quotation :
-
Chapter
31 page 97
“Tess –going to MARRY him –a gentleman!”repeated
Izz Huett
...
“He ought to marry one of you,” murmured Tess.
She cried,”... You would be better for him then – I don’t know what I’m saying!
O! O!
-
Chapter
32
“Don’t let them tease you about the boons”
c. Explanation :
In chapter 31 page 97,
there was feeling of giving up in one moment for the people (her friends who
love Angel) she loved too with do nothing for someone (Angel) she loved
In chapter 32
Angel tried to protect
someone he loved and didn’t care what people judge.
5. Regret
a. Definition : Regret is the situation that you have
done, but you wish that you had not done it.
b. Quotation :
“Why didn’t you stay and love me when I – was
sixteen; living with my little sisters and brothers, and you dances on the
green? O, Why didn’t you, why didn’t you!” she said, impetuously clasping her
hands.
Angel began to comfort and reassure her, thinking
himself...
“Ah! Why didn’t I stay!” he said, “That just what
I feel. If I had only known! But you must not be so bitter in your regret...”
c. Explanation :
At these quotations,
it can be identified that Tess regretted the past time when both had a chance
to be together then why Angel didn’t come to her life from the time being. It’s
not what she wanted, the bad fate which made her met to Alec was the worst
moment she had.
II.
CHARACTER
ANALYSIS
1. Angel Clare
a. Optimist
-
Chapter : 27 (page 82)
“O, Mr. Clare -- I cannot be your wife – I cannot be!”
“But Tess...” ... and holding her still more greedily
close. “Do you say no? Surely you love me?”
“O yes! And I would rather be you’re that anybody’s
in the world”...”but I CANNOT marry you...
“Then why you refuse me?”... “It is too sudden to be asked thus, my
pretty?”...”if you will let it pass, please, Tessy, I will give you time...”
ð Tess refused Angel to
marry him, but here, Angel never gave up making Tess believe with him as a
proven that he really loved her. At this moment, when Angel was falling in love
to Tess, he really wanted to marry her even Tess always refused him with her
reason.
b. Conscientious
-
Chapter : 25 (page 75 pr.3)
“Despite his heterodoxy,
faults, and weaknesses, Clare was a man with a conscience”.”....possessed as
great a dimension as the life of the mightiest to himself.”
ð Angel is figured as a
conscience man who always follow his voice of heart before do something
c. Ambitious
-
Chapter
26 page 79
“What
kind of wife do you think would be best for me as a thrifty hard-working
farmer?”
ð It
was for his father, the first question as a beginning for main aim. Then his
father answer that question with the final choices is
“Mercy Chant is of a very good family”
said his father
ð After
has debated to her father, he asked to her mother
“Mother,
I beg your pardon, but.... I may worse than choose her.”
“It
was for herself that he loved Tess, her soul, her heart, her substance....”
ð Angel
debated with his parents to convey them that he was falling in love not for
Mercy but for Tess
2. Mr. Clare
a. Religious
Chapter 26 page 78
When Angel asked what
kind of wife his father think it would be best for him, then there’s an answer
from Mr. Clare
“A truly Christian woman...”
ð From this statement,
it’s able to take conclusion that Angel’s father chooses a factor of
religiousness.
“Mr. Clare was a clergyman within the last 20
years...”
“His father ‘s hill – surrounded little town, the
Tudor Church...” (Page
76)
ð Here is enough proven
that Mr. Clare was a parson who has to be a holy person of his religion
b. Wise
Chapter 26 page 78
“This considerateness on old Mr. Clare’s part led
Angel onward...”
“... who will be a help and a comfort to you...”
ð His policies with
several reason is considered to make his son gets better
c. Critical
Chapter 26 page 80
“O no. The original
d’Urbervilles decayed and disappears sixty or eighty years ago....”
“Yes, certainly. It
would be desirable.”
ð Mr. Clare gave the
statement reasonably to his son Angel. He also asked the question in detail
from what Angel said critically.
3. Reverend Felix
a. Charming
“And therefore, we
must make the best of it” (chapter 25)
= he has a spirit to
motivate Angel
b. Careless
“Felix, though an
offshoot.... was less self-sacrificing and disinterested.” (Chapter 25 page 77)
= he didn’t pay much
attention
c. Unkind
“He was less ready
than his father to pardon it as a slight to his own teaching.” (Chapter 25 page
77)
= he is a type of person who hard to forgive
something.
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