#tess durbeyfield

[unpopularopinioncraig]

Swear to god, I’ve never wanted to kick two men harder in the dick that I do with Alec D’Urberville and Angel Clare from Tess of the D’Urbervilles.

#Thomas Hardy #tess of the d'urbervilles #Tess Durbeyfield #Alec D’Urberville #Angel Clare #Why the fuck are these two men such goddam fuckwads

[pintsofguinnesmakeyoustrong]

reading tess of the d'urbervilles. i hate this guy so much its unreal

#like alec is objectively worse but #angel is like the human equivalent of a soggy napkin #moral backbone of a chocolate eclair ass mf #tess of the d'urbervilles #tess durbeyfield #thomas hardy #angel clare #classic lit memes #classic lit #classic literature #english lit #english literature #19th century

[rosepompadour]

If ever a girl looked as if she had been made of roses, that girl was her.

George Eliot, Adam Bede (1859)

#if i had stuck with english as my major i would have written a doozy of a thesis on hetty sorrel and tess durbeyfield #there's just so much to unpack when you put them side by side! #but in my head they're both alive and well and running a cute bakery in london ˚˖𓍢ִ໋🌷͙֒✧˚. #adam bede #george eliot #literature

[luckystrike-x]

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#tess durbeyfield and laura palmer are so similar #the wessex's may queen and twin peaks prom queen #same struggles #both thomas hardy and david lynch seemed to have so much genuine fondness for them #and in both instances i can't help wanting to save them so badly #also they both use the disappearing angel imagery as a way to represent people failing them #ive read tess almost a year ago and it still haunts me genuinely one of the best book i've ever read #it's currently 4am so obviously it's literaryy critix time!

[maureen-corpse]

there’s a new norton critical edition……………

#thinking of her…..tess durbeyfield

[vintagestagehotties]

Hot Vintage Stage Actress Round 1

Minnie Maddern Fiske: Tess Durbeyfield in Tess of the d'Urbervilles (1902 Broadway); Becky Sharpe in Becky Sharpe (1904 Broadway); Madame Sand in Madame Sand (1917 Broadway)

Hilda Trevelyan: Wendy in Peter Pan (1904 West End); Maggie Wylie in What Every Woman Knows (1908 West End); Jane Thing/Cinderella in A Kiss for Cinderella (1916 West End)

Propaganda under the cut

Minnie Maddern Fiske:

mrs fisssskkkeee. girls who love animals are hot amd thats a Proven fact. sorry am a lil tipsy rn but i just love her

Hilda Trevelyan:

The original Wendy in Peter Pan! She played the role off and on for seven seasons and became one of J.M. Barrie's muses.

#vintagestagehotties #vintagestagepoll #vintage tournament #vintage poll #minnie maddern fiske #mrs fiske #hilda trevelyan #ladies round 1 #vintage ladies

[haveyoureadthispoll]

When Tess Durbeyfield is driven by family poverty to claim kinship with the wealthy D’Urbervilles and seek a portion of their family fortune, meeting her ‘cousin’ Alec proves to be her downfall. A very different man, Angel Clare, seems to offer her love and salvation, but Tess must choose whether to reveal her past or remain silent in the hope of a peaceful future.

#book: tess of the d'urbervilles #author: thomas hardy #genre: classics #genre: historical fiction #year: 1800s

[dreamy-conceit]

She philosophically noted dates as they came past in the revolution of the year. Her own birthday, and every other day individualized by incidents in which she had taken some share. She suddenly thought, one afternoon, that there was another date, of greater importance than all those; that of her own death; a day which lay sly and unseen among all the other days of the year, giving no sign or sound when she annually passed over it; but not the less surely there. When was it?

— Tess Durbeyfield (character), written by Thomas Hardy, 'Tess of the d'Urbervilles'

#thomas hardy #tess of the d'urbervilles #foreshadowing #death #predicting your death #quotes #literature #english lit

[iphijaania]

anything: happens

tess durbeyfield: what if i killed myself

#rereading tess of the d'urbervilles to remind myself on how insanely relatable she is #only thing is she shouldve killed angel too #literature #lettos says #tess of the d'urbervilles

[holymovies]

Nastassja Kinski in Tess, 1979

Director: Roman Polanski

In England, at the end of the 19th century, the humble Durbeyfield family discovers that they are actually descended from the illustrious d'Urberville clan. Durbeyfield's beautiful young daughter, Tess, is sent to the nearby d'Urberville mansion to rekindle her relationship with her wealthy relatives. Thus begins the entry of the innocent Tess into a game of illusions and seductions in which she could find the love of her life.

#natasha kinski #roman polanski

[pintsofguinnesmakeyoustrong]

so glad the notes clarified this i thought tess rode up to trantridge in a fucking Citroen Relay

#tess of the d'urbervilles #totd #thomas hardy #classic literature #classics #tess durbeyfield #Citroen Relay #english literature #english lit #english lit memes

[thebeesareback]

I sometimes think of fictional characters who just seem to have the worst luck possible. They act with agency, but the author is out to get them and everything which could go wrong does. They just never have a good moment. For example, Tess Durbeyfield from Tess of the d'Urbervilles by Thomas Hardy, or Catlyn Stark from A Song of Ice and Fire by George RR Martin. At some point it becomes almost funny, because it's so ridiculous that this could happen. My number one unlucky girly is Sephy Hadley from the Noughts and Crosses series. Across five books my good bitch:

1- deals with her alcoholic mother

2- is nearly killed in a terrorist attack

3- gets kidnapped

4- is raped (she and the narrative don't consider it rape, but I have reservations)

5- watches her kidnapper/rapist/boyfriend die

6- sees her sister get stabbed

7- receives a letter from her dead kidnapper/rapist/boyfriend telling her how much he hates her, right after she had his baby (Callie)

8- develops post-natal depression

9- nearly kills Callie after a mental breakdown (unsurprising, really)

10- Callie is groomed by a terrorist

11- Sephy's mother gets breast cancer

12- Sephy's mother takes the material intended for Callie to use as a suicide bomb and instead blows herself up

13- Sephy's daughter Callie is shot and spends several weeks unconscious and in hospital

14- Sephy is blackmailed an extorted by a gang member from the gang who shot Callie

15- Sephy's husband is killed in a hit-and-run orchestrated by her ex-boyfriend

16- Sephy's son (with her dead husband) is abducted by her daughter's ex-boyfriend's baby mama

17- Sephy's daughter's ex-boyfriend (falsely) accuses Sephy of murder

18- Sephy tries to rescue her son from a car bomb but is shot and killed

anyway poor Sephy :(

#noughts and crosses #knife edge #noughts & crosses #checkmate #double cross #crossfire #endgame #nought forever #malorie blackman #malorie blackman writer

[cameliias]

People who don’t like the character of Tess Durbeyfield are the biggest red flags to me.

#Tess of the D'Urbervilles #no literally #because the way some people drag her to filth??? #like congrats you missed hardy's point completely #she's my unproblematic favorite she did nothing wrong #not one thing #she did nothing wrong

[sayitwithsarcophilus]

By the “escapism vs an exact mirror of the evils of contemporary society” dichotomy, Thomas Hardy novels are escapist because Tess Durbeyfield’s experiences with sexism/classism/rape culture/etc. are unlikely to match 1:1 with a modern reader’s.

#i'm also sceptical of the idea that mirroring the prejudices of the writer's milieu #is a sign of Socially Aware specfic #because there's a lot of cold war era straigh dude scifi #where the period-typical sexism/heteronormativity/etc #is pretty clearly the writer not bothering to second-guess their own assumptions about how societies work #rather than intentional social commentary or critique

[daughterats]

types of girls, heroines of classic literature edition

anna karenina: flair for the dramatic, still reads children's books, always drinks tea with her cake, looks fantastic in velvet, gets excited when it snows

cosette: bakes sweets for her friends, the nicest person in any room, owns too many heart shaped lockets, wears pink blush every day, still enjoys milk and cookies, would do anything for those closest to her

holly golightly: always sleeping, takes taxis everywhere, never lets her emotions show, more issues than vogue, only wears ballet flats, regularly has champagne for breakfast, collects perfume ads, loves the rain

daisy buchanan: takes bubble baths, wears a lot of sparkly headbands, always drives over the speed limit, constantly flirting, can't make decisions on her own, wears pink all the time, confetti in her hair

isabel archer: loves old bookstores, owns more than one beret, eats french pastries at coffee shops, too busy to date, passionate about literature and history, intensely american but secretly wants a british accent

marguerite gautier: likes glittery makeup, has a season pass to the ballet, keeps bonbons in her evening bag, has a charge account at all the best boutiques, owns pink silk bed sheets, keeps too many perfume bottles on her vanity table, writes love letters exclusively in french

emma bovary: sits around in lingerie and cries, always falling in love, watches too many black-and-white films from the 1940s, keeps a diary, survives on rose macarons, would rather be in paris

tess durbeyfield: always in a silk hair ribbon, looks like a sweetheart but will definitely kill you, stress baker, only wears pastel shades, eats frosting out of the tube, has a heart of gold and tons of girl friends

catherine barkley: hopeless romantic, long shiny hair, eats dessert first, stronger than she looks, loves being kissed, wears extravagant nightgowns, saves perfumed love letters, only wants to be with her boyfriend and a few close friends, loves europe, smells like cinnamon

natasha rostova: wants to be a ballerina inside a snowglobe, reads a lot of fairy tales, has snowflakes on her eyelashes, secretly twirls in ball gowns in front of her bedroom mirror, always laughing

estella havisham: signature look of liquid eyeliner and red lipstick, wants to be alone, frosty brunette, has a closet full of louboutins, drinks a glass of wine every night, too sarcastic for her own good

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[alicemarion]

types  of  girls,  heroines  of  classic  literature  edition.

anna  karenina:  flair  for  the  dramatic,  still  reads  children's  books,  always  drinks  tea  with  her  cake,  looks  fantastic  in  velvet,  gets  excited  when  it  snows

cosette:  bakes  sweets  for  her  friends,  the  nicest  person  in  any  room,  owns  too  many  heart  shaped  lockets,  wears  pink  blush  every  day,  still  enjoys  milk  and  cookies,  would  do  anything  for  those  closest  to  her

holly  golightly:  always  sleeping,  takes  taxis  everywhere,  never  lets  her  emotions  show,  more  issues  than  vogue,  only  wears  ballet  flats,  regularly  has  champagne  for  breakfast,  collects  perfume  ads,  loves  the  rain

daisy  buchanan:  takes  bubble  baths,  wears  a  lot  of  sparkly  headbands,  always  drives  over  the  speed  limit,  constantly  flirting,  can't  make  decisions  on  her  own,  wears  pink  all  the  time,  confetti  in  her  hair

isabel  archer:  loves  old  bookstores,  owns  more  than  one  beret,  eats  french  pastries  at  coffee  shops,  too  busy  to  date,  passionate  about  literature  and  history,  intensely  american  but  secretly  wants  a  british  accent

marguerite  gautier:  likes  glittery  makeup,  has  a  season  pass  to  the  ballet,  keeps  bonbons  in  her  evening  bag,  has  a  charge  account  at  all  the  best  boutiques,  owns  pink  silk  bed  sheets,  keeps  too  many  perfume  bottles  on  her  vanity  table,  writes  love  letters  exclusively  in  french

emma  bovary:  sits  around  in  lingerie  and  cries,  always  falling  in  love,  watches  too  many  black-and-white  films  from  the  1940s,  keeps  a  diary,  survives  on  rose  macarons,  would  rather  be  in  paris

tess  durbeyfield:  always  in  a  silk  hair  ribbon,  looks  like  a  sweetheart  but  will  definitely  kill  you,  stress  baker,  only  wears  pastel  shades,  eats  frosting  out  of  the  tube,  has  a  heart  of  gold  and  tons  of  girl  friends

catherine  barkley:  hopeless  romantic,  long  shiny  hair,  eats  dessert  first,  stronger  than  she  looks,  loves  being  kissed,  wears  extravagant  nightgowns,  saves  perfumed  love  letters,  only  wants  to  be  with  her  boyfriend  and  a  few  close  friends,  loves  europe,  smells  like  cinnamon

natasha  rostova:  wants  to  be  a  ballerina  inside  a  snowglobe,  reads  a  lot  of  fairy  tales,  has  snowflakes  on  her  eyelashes,  secretly  twirls  in  gowns  in  front  of  her  bedroom  mirror,  always  laughing

estella  havisham:  signature  look  of  liquid  eyeliner  and  red  lipstick,  wants  to  be  alone,  frosty  brunette,  has  a  closet  full  of  louboutins,  drinks  a  glass  of  wine  every  night,  too  sarcastic  for  her  own  good

#study.