Post your group's selected quotations here (along with a page reference for each quotation). Use this as a bank of evidence to prepare for your Paper 2 exam. :)
“Springing to her accustomed perpendicular like a bowed sapling, and satisfying herself that nobody was in sight, she seated herself in the manner demanded by the saddle, though hardly expected of the woman, and trotted off in the direction of Tewnell Mill.” (pg. 15)
This reveals Bathsheba’s almost rebellious nature towards the norms of society and her strength and ability to do things that most men do and women can’t. whether it’s owning and managing her own farm or riding side saddle as if she was born to do so, she is very strong in her womanhood. “That will do!” exclaimed Bathsheba. “Loosen my hands. I won’t have them held! Turn the winch.” (pg. 115)
This reveals Bathsheba’s independence and how she doesn’t like to be held down by anyone, especially men and how she can fully support and fend for herself.
“Don’t – don’t! I won’t listen to you – you are so profane!” she said, in a restless state between distress at hearing him and a penchant to hear more. (pg. 150)
This reveals the weaker side of Bathsheba for she can’t resist compliments and Troy’s suave nature and although she tries to be rejecting and biting towards him, she can’t help to be shallow and superficial and actually fall for his obvious trap.
“I am weak, and foolish, and I don’t know what, and I can’t fend off my miserable grief!...God prepared a gourd to shade me, and like the prophet thanked him and was glad. But the next day he prepared a worm to smite the gourd, and wither it; and I feel it is better to die than to live.” (pg. 225)
-He finds any other person to blame but himself in explaining his obsession with Bathsheba, even to the extent of blaming God for her rejection of him.
“A few months earlier Boldwood’s forgetting his husbandry would have been as preposterous an idea as a sailor forgetting he was in a ship.” (pg. 224)
-This shows the complete indifference from who he used to be, as common necessities are overlooked as he is completely controlled by whim.
“His manner had lapsed quite from that of the firm and dignified Boldwood of former times, and such a scheme as he had now engaged in he would have condemned as childishly imbecile only a few months ago.” (pg. 200)
-In trying to convince Troy to leave Bathsheba he reducing himself to nothing for the sake of a woman who doesn’t even love him. Months before though, he could care less about the feelings of the women around him.
Oak’s motions, though they had a quiet energy, were slow, and their deliberateness accorded well with his occupation (pg 10).
He at once sat astride the very apex and began with his crook to beat off the fiery fragments which had lodged thereon, shouting to the others to get him a bough, and a ladder, and some water (pg 41).
Thank God I am not married: what would she have done in the poverty now coming upon me! (pg 33).
Oak meditatively looked upon the horizon of circumstances without any special regard to his own standpoint in the midst (pg 257).
(276) “With a face of perplexed dismay Troy turned the corner and then beheld the wreck the stream had made” The wreck of the grave reveals the mayhem that he had caused between multiple characters: Bathsheba, Fanny and Boldwood (not so much with Gabriel). The washing away of the flowers shows that he is not suitable to be the one to plant them. He’s pretty much caused her death. In the end, he was there to face what he had caused himself.
(289) “There was the little coil of pale hair which had been as the fuze [fuse] to this great explosion” The lock of hair in Troy’s watch that he gave to Bathsheba shows that he loved Fanny best. It was obvious that a big piece of his heart belonged to Fanny and this was something that caused Bathsheba to be greatly jealous of Fanny. This also shows Troy’s characterization, in that he only sees beauty in women and that it is through his charm and position as sergeant Troy that he is able to pull women into his life whether they want to or not.
(238) “Bathsheba, don’t be so fitful and jealous. You knew what married life would be life, and shouldn’t have entered it if you feared these contingencies.” This shows Troy and how he’s laying it up front to Bathsheba that if she didn’t want to face the troubles of marriage between him and her, she shouldn’t have accepted the proposal. Yet, he was the one to make her fall in love with him. This also shows his fickleness. Just because she’s married him doesn’t mean that he can simply take advantage of that marriage and create a situation that would make Bathsheba heartbroken.
Bathsheba
(164) “Bathsheba loved Troy in the way that only self-reliant women love when they abandon their self-reliance” Bathsheba’s characterization Her independence and how that changes throughout the story as she falls in love with Troy Foreshadowing her downfall
(123) “Do not desert me Gabriel!” This reveals Bathsheba and how she tries to reject Gabriel but her life always finds ways of needing him again at the most difficult times, that is, through relationships and farm handling.
(239) “Now anything short of cruelty will content me. Yes the independent and spirited Bathsheba is come to this!” This is the point where Bathsheba breaks down and finally admits that she has lost her independence.
(150) “Don’t – don’t! I won’t listen to you – You are so profane!” she said, in a restless state between distress at hearing him and a penchant to hear more.
Do I just post my quote here??? I'm confused..... hmmm
Well, one of my group's quotes that I chose was:
"This woman is more to me, dead as she is, than ever you were, or are, or can be." (pg. 263)
**This quote is said by Troy to Bathsheba. It is significant because it reveals a part of Troy's character and the dishonest relationship Troy and Bathsheba had together.
"'Gabriel, will you stay on with me?' she said...'I will,' said Gabriel. And she smiled on him again." p. 124
"'If I only knew one thing - whether you would allow me to love you and win you and marry you after all - if I only knew that!' 'But you never will know,' she murmured. 'Why?' 'Because you never ask!'" p. 347
"'And you better!' she said gratefully. 'Thank you for your devotion a thousand times Gabriel! Gooe night - I know you are doing your very best for me.'" p. 222
"'Pray don't speak of it sir,' said Oak hastily. 'We don't know what may happen. So many circumstances arise. There's many a slip, as they said - and I would advise you - I know you'll pardon me this once - not to be too sure.'" p. 320
"'The real sin, ma'am, in my mind lies in thinking of ever wedding with a man you don't love honest and true.'" p. 311
Pg. 44 “The voice was unexpectedly attractive: it was the low and dulcet note suggestive of romance; common in descriptions, rare in experience.” - this quote reveals how Fanny is still a girl with fantasy of romance and kind of foreshadows how she will run to marry Troy out of foolishness. She lacks experience in life, thus lacking wisdom and knowledge about the world, which leads her to make wrong decisions for herself, and ultimately her death and her baby’s in the end. Her inexperience and her voice, suggestive of romance, reveal her state of mind at that time, when she was planning on running off, or getting married, with Troy.
Pg. 231 “I’ll believe that the end lies five posts forward, and no further, and so get strength to pass them.” - She keeps her hopes up even in her most desperate times, thus revealing a optimistic (but sometimes foolish) characterization of Fanny. She is not devastated that Troy sent her to Casterbridge Union alone and even when she finds out that Troy married Bathsheba. Her faith keeps her moving forward but this is, again, extremely self-destructive.
Pg. 78 “Yes. O Frank- you think me forward I am afraid! Don’t dear Frank- will you – for I love you so. And you said lots of times you would marry me, and – and – I- I – I” - This is when Fanny runs off to Troy in the beginning to get married, and in this quote, we can see that Fanny is not afraid to show her emotions to others, especially her affections for Troy, and this reveals how she is inexperienced and irrational that lead her to make wrong decisions. She doesn’t expect much from Troy or anyone else, and this shows how low her expectations of the world are. She is driven by her emotions and dedicated. Like the first quote, where her voice was suggestive of romance, she is easily driven by the romance in her life. She is very naive, trusting Troy without a doubt. She's also pleading to Troy, thus this reveals how Fanny is weaker than Bathsheba.
“ I don’t allow strangers to be bold and impudent- even in praise of me.” (Pg. 149)
“But I was coming away, when he suddenly said he had that day seen a woman more beautiful than I, and that his constancy could not be counted on unless I at once became his…. And I was grienved and troubled….And then between jealousy and distraction, I marrried him!” (Pg. 221)
“But she has her faults…And the greatest of them is- well, what it is always…Vanity.” (Pg. 7)
1. “Yes. O Frank—you think me forward I am afraid! Don’t dear Frank – will you—for I love you so. And you said lots of times you would marry me, and – and—I—I—I—“ pg. 78
2. “I’ll believe that the end lies five posts forward, and no further, and so get strength to pass them.” Pg. 231
3. “Gabriel’s fingers alighted on the young woman’s wrist. It was beating with a throb of tragic intensity. He had frequently felt the same quick hard beat in the femoral artery of his lambs when overdriven. It suggested a consumption too great of a vitality, which, to judge from her figure and magnitude, was already too little.” Pg. 45
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Paula, Hannah, Helen, Geehee
Pg.8 "the wind in breezes-one rubbing the blades heavily, another raking them piercingly, another brushing them like a soft broom."
Pg 131 "we learn that it is not the rays which bodies absorb, but those which they reject that give them the colors they are known by"
Pg 164 "when a strong woman recklessly throws away her strength she is worse than a weak woman who has never had any strength to throw away."
pg 223 "fighting against fire in the same spot as desperately as he was fighting against water now- and for a futile love of the same woman."
Pg. 311 his career depends entirely upon my treatment of him. O Gabriel, I tremble at my responsibility, for it is terrible.
Bathsheba
“Springing to her accustomed perpendicular like a bowed sapling, and satisfying herself that nobody was in sight, she seated herself in the manner demanded by the saddle, though hardly expected of the woman, and trotted off in the direction of Tewnell Mill.” (pg. 15)
This reveals Bathsheba’s almost rebellious nature towards the norms of society and her strength and ability to do things that most men do and women can’t. whether it’s owning and managing her own farm or riding side saddle as if she was born to do so, she is very strong in her womanhood.
“That will do!” exclaimed Bathsheba. “Loosen my hands. I won’t have them held! Turn the winch.” (pg. 115)
This reveals Bathsheba’s independence and how she doesn’t like to be held down by anyone, especially men and how she can fully support and fend for herself.
“Don’t – don’t! I won’t listen to you – you are so profane!” she said, in a restless state between distress at hearing him and a penchant to hear more. (pg. 150)
This reveals the weaker side of Bathsheba for she can’t resist compliments and Troy’s suave nature and although she tries to be rejecting and biting towards him, she can’t help to be shallow and superficial and actually fall for his obvious trap.
Hannah - Boldwood quotes :)
“I am weak, and foolish, and I don’t know what, and I can’t fend off my miserable grief!...God prepared a gourd to shade me, and like the prophet thanked him and was glad. But the next day he prepared a worm to smite the gourd, and wither it; and I feel it is better to die than to live.” (pg. 225)
-He finds any other person to blame but himself in explaining his obsession with Bathsheba, even to the extent of blaming God for her rejection of him.
“A few months earlier Boldwood’s forgetting his husbandry would have been as preposterous an idea as a sailor forgetting he was in a ship.” (pg. 224)
-This shows the complete indifference from who he used to be, as common necessities are overlooked as he is completely controlled by whim.
“His manner had lapsed quite from that of the firm and dignified Boldwood of former times, and such a scheme as he had now engaged in he would have condemned as childishly imbecile only a few months ago.” (pg. 200)
-In trying to convince Troy to leave Bathsheba he reducing himself to nothing for the sake of a woman who doesn’t even love him. Months before though, he could care less about the feelings of the women around him.
Michael and GeeHee's quotations
Gabriel Oak's characterization
Oak’s motions, though they had a quiet energy, were slow, and their deliberateness accorded well with his occupation (pg 10).
He at once sat astride the very apex and began with his crook to beat off the fiery fragments which had lodged thereon, shouting to the others to get him a bough, and a ladder, and some water (pg 41).
Thank God I am not married: what would she have done in the poverty now coming upon me! (pg 33).
Oak meditatively looked upon the horizon of circumstances without any special regard to his own standpoint in the midst (pg 257).
Joyce, Hyojung, Michael
Pg. 311 "The real sin ma'am in my mind lies in thinking of ever wedding with a man you don't love honest and true"
- Oak
Pg. 26 "I hate to be thought men's property in that way."
- Bathsheba
Pg. 147 "It was a fatal omission of Boldwood's that he had never once told her she was beautiful."
- Narrator
Pg. 222 "But Oak was generous and true, and dismissed his reflections."
- Narrator
Pg. 164 "Bathsheba loved Troy in the way that only self-reliant women love when they abandon their self-reliance."
- Narrator
JOYCE & HYOJUNG
Troy
(276) “With a face of perplexed dismay Troy turned the corner and then beheld the wreck the stream had made”
The wreck of the grave reveals the mayhem that he had caused between multiple characters: Bathsheba, Fanny and Boldwood (not so much with Gabriel). The washing away of the flowers shows that he is not suitable to be the one to plant them. He’s pretty much caused her death. In the end, he was there to face what he had caused himself.
(289) “There was the little coil of pale hair which had been as the fuze [fuse] to this great explosion” The lock of hair in Troy’s watch that he gave to Bathsheba shows that he loved Fanny best. It was obvious that a big piece of his heart belonged to Fanny and this was something that caused Bathsheba to be greatly jealous of Fanny. This also shows Troy’s characterization, in that he only sees beauty in women and that it is through his charm and position as sergeant Troy that he is able to pull women into his life whether they want to or not.
(238) “Bathsheba, don’t be so fitful and jealous. You knew what married life would be life, and shouldn’t have entered it if you feared these contingencies.” This shows Troy and how he’s laying it up front to Bathsheba that if she didn’t want to face the troubles of marriage between him and her, she shouldn’t have accepted the proposal. Yet, he was the one to make her fall in love with him. This also shows his fickleness. Just because she’s married him doesn’t mean that he can simply take advantage of that marriage and create a situation that would make Bathsheba heartbroken.
Bathsheba
(164) “Bathsheba loved Troy in the way that only self-reliant women love when they abandon their self-reliance” Bathsheba’s characterization
Her independence and how that changes throughout the story as she falls in love with Troy
Foreshadowing her downfall
(123) “Do not desert me Gabriel!” This reveals Bathsheba and how she tries to reject Gabriel but her life always finds ways of needing him again at the most difficult times, that is, through relationships and farm handling.
(239) “Now anything short of cruelty will content me. Yes the independent and spirited Bathsheba is come to this!” This is the point where Bathsheba breaks down and finally admits that she has lost her independence.
(150) “Don’t – don’t! I won’t listen to you – You are so profane!” she said, in a restless state between distress at hearing him and a penchant to hear more.
Do I just post my quote here??? I'm confused..... hmmm
Well, one of my group's quotes that I chose was:
"This woman is more to me, dead as she is, than ever you were, or are, or can be." (pg. 263)
**This quote is said by Troy to Bathsheba. It is significant because it reveals a part of Troy's character and the dishonest relationship Troy and Bathsheba had together.
"So desolate was Bathsheba...she appeared to have outlived the only true friendship she had ever owned..." p. 345
John Bang and Sung Guk
Gabriel Oak Quotes
"'Gabriel, will you stay on with me?' she said...'I will,' said Gabriel. And she smiled on him again." p. 124
"'If I only knew one thing - whether you would allow me to love you and win you and marry you after all - if I only knew that!' 'But you never will know,' she murmured. 'Why?' 'Because you never ask!'" p. 347
"'And you better!' she said gratefully. 'Thank you for your devotion a thousand times Gabriel! Gooe night - I know you are doing your very best for me.'" p. 222
"'Pray don't speak of it sir,' said Oak hastily. 'We don't know what may happen. So many circumstances arise. There's many a slip, as they said - and I would advise you - I know you'll pardon me this once - not to be too sure.'" p. 320
"'The real sin, ma'am, in my mind lies in thinking of ever wedding with a man you don't love honest and true.'" p. 311
Pg. 7 "'Vanity'"
Group Quotes
Michelle, Yoorina, Sasha, Minsoo
"I hate to be thought men's property in that way" pg. 22
"Gabriel...glanced back to where he had witnessed her performance over the hedge, and said "vanity."" pg. 7
"You are nothing to me- nothing, A ceremony before a priest doesn't make a marriage. I am not morally yours." pg. 264
"When a strong woman recklessly throws away her strength, she is worse than a weak woman who has never had strength to throw away."
"There is no regular path for getting out of love as there is getting in"
Fanny Robbin
Pg. 44 “The voice was unexpectedly attractive: it was the low and dulcet note suggestive of romance; common in descriptions, rare in experience.”
- this quote reveals how Fanny is still a girl with fantasy of romance and kind of foreshadows how she will run to marry Troy out of foolishness. She lacks experience in life, thus lacking wisdom and knowledge about the world, which leads her to make wrong decisions for herself, and ultimately her death and her baby’s in the end. Her inexperience and her voice, suggestive of romance, reveal her state of mind at that time, when she was planning on running off, or getting married, with Troy.
Pg. 231 “I’ll believe that the end lies five posts forward, and no further, and so get strength to pass them.”
- She keeps her hopes up even in her most desperate times, thus revealing a optimistic (but sometimes foolish) characterization of Fanny. She is not devastated that Troy sent her to Casterbridge Union alone and even when she finds out that Troy married Bathsheba. Her faith keeps her moving forward but this is, again, extremely self-destructive.
Pg. 78 “Yes. O Frank- you think me forward I am afraid! Don’t dear Frank- will you – for I love you so. And you said lots of times you would marry me, and – and – I- I – I”
- This is when Fanny runs off to Troy in the beginning to get married, and in this quote, we can see that Fanny is not afraid to show her emotions to others, especially her affections for Troy, and this reveals how she is inexperienced and irrational that lead her to make wrong decisions. She doesn’t expect much from Troy or anyone else, and this shows how low her expectations of the world are. She is driven by her emotions and dedicated. Like the first quote, where her voice was suggestive of romance, she is easily driven by the romance in her life. She is very naive, trusting Troy without a doubt. She's also pleading to Troy, thus this reveals how Fanny is weaker than Bathsheba.
Bathsheba
“ I don’t allow strangers to be bold and impudent- even in praise of me.” (Pg. 149)
“But I was coming away, when he suddenly said he had that day seen a woman more beautiful than I, and that his constancy could not be counted on unless I at once became his…. And I was grienved and troubled….And then between jealousy and distraction, I marrried him!” (Pg. 221)
“But she has her faults…And the greatest of them is- well, what it is always…Vanity.” (Pg. 7)
Bathsheba
pg. 26 "I hate to be thought men's property in that way."
Fanny Robbin
1. “Yes. O Frank—you think me forward I am afraid! Don’t dear Frank – will you—for I love you so. And you said lots of times you would marry me, and – and—I—I—I—“ pg. 78
2. “I’ll believe that the end lies five posts forward, and no further, and so get strength to pass them.” Pg. 231
3. “Gabriel’s fingers alighted on the young woman’s wrist. It was beating with a throb of tragic intensity. He had frequently felt the same quick hard beat in the femoral artery of his lambs when overdriven. It suggested a consumption too great of a vitality, which, to judge from her figure and magnitude, was already too little.” Pg. 45
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