Cultural allusion: “It produces the poetry of Roger, the paintings of West, the state craft of North, the spiritual guidance of Tomline” (177).
BIblical allusion: “He often reminds me of the Apostle Paul” -speaking of Clym- (281).
Cultural allusion: He “scanned the outer boundary of the garden, as one might have done had it been the birth place of Shakespere, the prison of Mary Stuart, or the Chateau of Hougomon” (278).
Biblical allusion: “Neighbours, how do we know but that something of the old serpent in God’s garden, that gied the apple to the young woman with no clothes, lives on in adders and snakes still?” (294).
Artistic allusion: “The brilliant lights and sooty shades which struggled upon the skin and clothes of the persons standing round caused their lineaments and general contours to be drwan with Dureresque vigour and dash” (23).
Durer was an artist that was extremely detailed in his work. This passage also has great alliteration with the “s” words!
Biblical Allusion: ” . . . Crucified as a blasphemer. Also, on the other hand, that it will never cause him to be applauded as a prophet, revered as a priest, or exalted as a king.” (156)
This may be stretching it – but the Pharisees and Sadducees called Jesus a blasphemer because He claimed He was God, and they only saw Him as a man. Even though Christ was not a blasphemer, He was crucified because of this public perception.
Many say Christ is only a prophet, others call him a priest, and many call Him their King.
The untameable, Ishmaelitish thing that Egdon now was it always had been” (Hardy 5).
Ishmael was the son of Abraham and Hagar as well as the brother of Isaac. (Isaac’s mother was Sarah.) In Genesis, he is referred to as “a wild donkey of a man,” which, in a funny way, describes Egdon. One might say Egdon was “a wild donkey of a heath,” because it is raw nature, unable to be changed. There is also something heathen about the heath, but I cannot quite put my finger on it. Ishmael is the oddball of Abraham’s family as the heath is a bit of an oddball of nature.
“Mrs. Yeobright was far too thoughtful a woman to be content with ready definitions, and, like the ‘what is wisdom?’ of Plato’s Socrates, and the ‘What is truth?’ of Pontius Pilate, Yeobright’s burning question received no answer.” (180)
This is two allusions in one. One is an allusion to Socrates/Plato’s The Apology. And the second is in the Bible. It is when Pontius Pilate asks Jesus “What is truth”, to which Jesus does not reply.
-Stephen
“Cry about one thing in life, cry about all… And yet we say, ‘a time to laugh!’” (219)
This is a reference to Ecclesiastes 3:4 “a time to weep and a time to laugh, a time to mourn and a time to dance.” Thomasin says this when she is really sad. Lamenting that it seems that all she does is mourn and cry about goings on. Even though in the Bible it says that there is a time to laugh, she doesn’t see one coming.
-Stephen
“And the king rose up to meet her, and bowed himself unto her, and sat down on his throne, and caused a seat to be set for the king’s mother; and she sat on his right hand. Then she said, I desire one small petition of thee; I pray thee, say me not nay. And the king said unto her, Ask on, my mother: for I will not say thee nay.” (401)
This is a direct quotation from 1 Kings 2. It is almost the last thing of the novel. And it shows Clym’s wish that he could have reconciled with his mother. If he could see her again, he would not say “nay”.
-Stephen
“It was a night which led the traveller’s thoughts instinctively to dwell on nocturnal scenes of disaster in the chronicles of the world… the last plague of Egypt, the destruction of Sennacherib’s host, the agony in Gethsemane” (Hardy 321).
This quote is three allusions in one. The last plague of Egypt was the one in which all the firstborn children of the households whose door’s were unmarked with lamb’s blood were killed in the night by the angel of death. Sennacherib was a king of ancient Assyria who destroyed Babylon, rebuilt Nineveh, and invaded Judea. In Herodotus’ Histories the king’s armies were destroyed by divine appointment through Egyptian armies (according to those on the side of Egypt). The garden of Gethsemane is where Jesus awaited in utter agony the soldiers who were to lead him to his death. The night of Eustacia’s death was reminiscent of these disastrous nights. Hardy is foreshadowing her suicide by allusion.
“A thin, pallid, almost spectral form, wrapped in a blanket, and looking like Lazarus coming from the tomb.” (371)
This is used to describe Clym after Eustacia dies. It is an allusion to the Bible when Jesus raised Lazarus from the dead. He had been dead for four days when Jesus resurrected him. He came out of the tomb rapped in the burial clothes, and I’m sure he didn’t look to good, being dead for a while. This is the impacted that the allusion should do to us. Clym looked as if he had been dead for days because something had died along with, first his mother, then his wife.
-Stephen
“Wildeve came like Amerigo Vespucci, and received the honours due to those who had gone before” (32).
Amerigo Vespucci was given more credit than he deserved (Having the Americas named after him), as he was an early explorer of the New World, and the continents of North and South America were named after him. (Thanks Haley!! ) Wildeve was given more credit than he deserved for his “patch” of land that was “redeemed from the heath, and after long and laborious years brought into cultivation” (32). Wildeve did not do the work that was required to make the land ‘fruitful’, yet received credit for it.
cultural reference: “It had sprung up on the night, or rather early morning, like Jack’s bean stalk”.
This allusion explains itself. It’s alluding to the fable of Jack and the beanstalk! Which i personally hated as a child. There is no morality, no life lesson learned in that fable… kind of like return of the native….
Cultural allusion: “It produces the poetry of Roger, the paintings of West, the state craft of North, the spiritual guidance of Tomline” (177).
BIblical allusion: “He often reminds me of the Apostle Paul” -speaking of Clym- (281).
Cultural allusion: He “scanned the outer boundary of the garden, as one might have done had it been the birth place of Shakespere, the prison of Mary Stuart, or the Chateau of Hougomon” (278).
Biblical allusion: “Neighbours, how do we know but that something of the old serpent in God’s garden, that gied the apple to the young woman with no clothes, lives on in adders and snakes still?” (294).
—Karla
Artistic allusion: “The brilliant lights and sooty shades which struggled upon the skin and clothes of the persons standing round caused their lineaments and general contours to be drwan with Dureresque vigour and dash” (23).
Durer was an artist that was extremely detailed in his work. This passage also has great alliteration with the “s” words!
alyssa
Biblical Allusion: ” . . . Crucified as a blasphemer. Also, on the other hand, that it will never cause him to be applauded as a prophet, revered as a priest, or exalted as a king.” (156)
This may be stretching it – but the Pharisees and Sadducees called Jesus a blasphemer because He claimed He was God, and they only saw Him as a man. Even though Christ was not a blasphemer, He was crucified because of this public perception.
Many say Christ is only a prophet, others call him a priest, and many call Him their King.
-Katie A.
When Hardy describes Eustacia in the chapter, Queen of night, he alludes to Mount Olympus, the Fates, the Sphinx, Hades, Heloise, and Cleopatra.
“On Olympus she would have done well with a little preparation. She had the passions and instincts which make a model goddess . . . ” (58)
“When her hair was brushed she would instantly sink into the stillness and look like the Sphinx.” (59)
“Her power was limited, and the consciousness of this limitation had biassed her development. Egdon was he Hades . . . ” (60)
“In heaven she will probably sit between the Heloises and the Cleopatras.” (64)
- Kristen
The untameable, Ishmaelitish thing that Egdon now was it always had been” (Hardy 5).
Ishmael was the son of Abraham and Hagar as well as the brother of Isaac. (Isaac’s mother was Sarah.) In Genesis, he is referred to as “a wild donkey of a man,” which, in a funny way, describes Egdon. One might say Egdon was “a wild donkey of a heath,” because it is raw nature, unable to be changed. There is also something heathen about the heath, but I cannot quite put my finger on it. Ishmael is the oddball of Abraham’s family as the heath is a bit of an oddball of nature.
-Hayley Whited
“Mrs. Yeobright was far too thoughtful a woman to be content with ready definitions, and, like the ‘what is wisdom?’ of Plato’s Socrates, and the ‘What is truth?’ of Pontius Pilate, Yeobright’s burning question received no answer.” (180)
This is two allusions in one. One is an allusion to Socrates/Plato’s The Apology. And the second is in the Bible. It is when Pontius Pilate asks Jesus “What is truth”, to which Jesus does not reply.
-Stephen
“Cry about one thing in life, cry about all… And yet we say, ‘a time to laugh!’” (219)
This is a reference to Ecclesiastes 3:4 “a time to weep and a time to laugh, a time to mourn and a time to dance.” Thomasin says this when she is really sad. Lamenting that it seems that all she does is mourn and cry about goings on. Even though in the Bible it says that there is a time to laugh, she doesn’t see one coming.
-Stephen
“And the king rose up to meet her, and bowed himself unto her, and sat down on his throne, and caused a seat to be set for the king’s mother; and she sat on his right hand. Then she said, I desire one small petition of thee; I pray thee, say me not nay. And the king said unto her, Ask on, my mother: for I will not say thee nay.” (401)
This is a direct quotation from 1 Kings 2. It is almost the last thing of the novel. And it shows Clym’s wish that he could have reconciled with his mother. If he could see her again, he would not say “nay”.
-Stephen
“It was a night which led the traveller’s thoughts instinctively to dwell on nocturnal scenes of disaster in the chronicles of the world… the last plague of Egypt, the destruction of Sennacherib’s host, the agony in Gethsemane” (Hardy 321).
This quote is three allusions in one. The last plague of Egypt was the one in which all the firstborn children of the households whose door’s were unmarked with lamb’s blood were killed in the night by the angel of death. Sennacherib was a king of ancient Assyria who destroyed Babylon, rebuilt Nineveh, and invaded Judea. In Herodotus’ Histories the king’s armies were destroyed by divine appointment through Egyptian armies (according to those on the side of Egypt). The garden of Gethsemane is where Jesus awaited in utter agony the soldiers who were to lead him to his death. The night of Eustacia’s death was reminiscent of these disastrous nights. Hardy is foreshadowing her suicide by allusion.
-Hayley W.
“A thin, pallid, almost spectral form, wrapped in a blanket, and looking like Lazarus coming from the tomb.” (371)
This is used to describe Clym after Eustacia dies. It is an allusion to the Bible when Jesus raised Lazarus from the dead. He had been dead for four days when Jesus resurrected him. He came out of the tomb rapped in the burial clothes, and I’m sure he didn’t look to good, being dead for a while. This is the impacted that the allusion should do to us. Clym looked as if he had been dead for days because something had died along with, first his mother, then his wife.
-Stephen
“Wildeve came like Amerigo Vespucci, and received the honours due to those who had gone before” (32).
Amerigo Vespucci was given more credit than he deserved (Having the Americas named after him), as he was an early explorer of the New World, and the continents of North and South America were named after him. (Thanks Haley!!
) Wildeve was given more credit than he deserved for his “patch” of land that was “redeemed from the heath, and after long and laborious years brought into cultivation” (32). Wildeve did not do the work that was required to make the land ‘fruitful’, yet received credit for it.
-Katie A.
My personal facorite is on 352:
cultural reference: “It had sprung up on the night, or rather early morning, like Jack’s bean stalk”.
This allusion explains itself. It’s alluding to the fable of Jack and the beanstalk! Which i personally hated as a child. There is no morality, no life lesson learned in that fable… kind of like return of the native….
-Janielle