Sorry, I'm apparantly a really slow reader, I'm only on page 307. I did want put some quotes up from the book that I found interesting. I like the book a lot more than I did at the beginning, but it bugs me how much Thomas Hardy explains. . . and re-explains! It's a little too wordy for me, but I am liking it better. I'll let you know what I think when I'm done reading it (hopefully soon, sorry I'm so slow on this one)!
"Let the truth be told-women do as a rule live through such humiliations, and regain their spirits, and again look about them with interested eye"
Page 130
I liked this quote, I think women do posses a certain strength that allows us to live through difficult times and rise again from the ashes (so to speak).
"Her refusal, though unexpected, did not permanenetly daunt Clare. His experience of women was great enough for him to be aware that the negative often meant nothing more than the preface to the affirmative; and it was little enough for him not to know that in the manner of the present negative there lay a great exception to the dallygins of coyness."
Page 213
This quote actually made me mad. I feel it is this attitude and opinion that allowed Alex to feel justified in raping Tess at the beginning of the book. I realize this quote is talking about Angel, but I think it can apply to the general feeling of men from this era. . . and possibly many men today. It made me mad.
This next quote I just had to include because the end of it reminded me of the 13th article of faith. . . since Beckee references parrallels between the LDS church and this book. . .when I read this, I laughed:
"I won't have you speak like it, dear Tess! Distinction does not consist in the facile use of a comtemplitvle set of conventions, but in being numbered among those who are true, and honest, and just and pure, and lovely, and of good report-as you are, my Tess."
Page 235
"Meanwhile Clare was meditating, verily. His thoughts had been unsuspended; he was becoming ill with thinking; eaten out with thinking, withered by thinking; scourged out of all his former pulsating feleous domesticity."
Page 288
I liked this quote because it described perfectly the way I have felt before when really thinking about something and trying to figure out in my head what to do. I had literally become ill with thinking. I liked the way Thomas Hardy worded it.
Okay, those are my thoughts so far in the book. . . I'll report back when I'm finished-hopefully soon! Thanks.
Andrea
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Isn't that what this book makes you do? That is, think until you are ill, or think until you are mad because you didn't care to know that description in such depth and now you wasted all those brain cells on it?!?
I loved the other quotes you posted. Sometimes I feel like Hardy's topics are all over the place, and full of morals that he's sticking to the reader.
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