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Pastoral Mode
Gabriel Oak
The Pastoral Tragedy
Bathsheba
Miscellaneous
100
In pastoral works, rural life is contrasted with what?
What is city life?
100
What is the defining feature of Gabriel's character?
What is temperance - he rejects extremes?
100
What causes the Pastoral Tragedy?
What is Gabriel's younger dog?
100
What is Bathsheba's last name?
What is Everdene?
100
Hardy aligns good relationships with what?
What is the Pastoral world?
200
Pastoral narratives often feature characters with what occupation?
What is shepherds?
200
What is it about Gabriel that suggests he is a pastoral king?
What is his "low-crowned hat" (p.34)?
200
Gabriel has two dogs. What is the name of the elder one?
What is George?
200
What is Bathsheba's greatest fault?
What is her vanity?
200
What does Boldwood lack that leads him to misunderstand his relations with Bathsheba?
What is experience?
300
What does the pastoral idealize?
What is rural life, the rural past, nostalgia, time, or space?
300
Gabriel embodies what kind of virtues?
What are Christian virtues?
300
The loss of his sheep symbolizes Gabriel's loss of what type of independence?
What is financial independence?
300
What is Bathsheba carrying the first time Gabriel sees her?
What is a mirror?
300
What percentage is the second assignment worth?
What is 15%?
400
What does pre-lapsarian mean?
What is innocent, such as we were before the Fall of Man (from Eden)?
400
Gabriel is even-tempered, and so his foil is quite volatile. Which character serves as a foil to Gabriel?
Who is Boldwood?
400
The moral of the Pastoral Tragedy is that perfect conduct cannot be achieved in a world that requires what?
What is compromise?
400
Who serves as a tempting figure for Bathsheba, goading her into sending the valentine?
Who is Liddy?
400
What is significant about the sheep that Gabriel loses?
What is they were pregnant?
500
From what poem did Hardy get the title of his novel?
What is Thomas Gray's "Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard?"
500
When Gabriel is sharpening his shears, what mythical figure does Hardy compare him to?
Who is Eros?
500
In Hardy's narrative, the status of Gabriel's work also represents the status of what?
What is the state of his relationship with Bathsheba?
500
What does Bathsheba do to decide who she will send the proposal valentine to?
What is she flips the book on it (her hymn book)?
500
What is Gabriel compared to in a simile in the first paragraph of the novel
What is the rays of the rising sun?