Sunday, January 30, 2011
The not so sweet prince by Furzan A
Like the horse, Prince, Tess has a high-class name, but lives a life of menial physical labor. Interestingly, Prince’s death occurs right after Tess dreams of ancient knights, having just heard the news that her family is from an aristocratic descent. Also, the horse is pierced by the forward-jutting piece of metal on a mail coach, which is just like a medieval joust. In an odd way, Tess’s dream of medieval glory comes true, and her horse dies a heroic death. Yet her dream of meeting a prince while she kills her own Prince, and with him her family’s only means of financial sustenance, is a tragic foreshadowing of her own story, because later in the novel Tess meets Alec who brings her both his lofty name, D'Urberville and, indirectly, her own death later.
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I never made that connection about the dream and what happened to the horse! But now that you mention it, you're right. It's really ironic and tragic about what happened to Prince, and that is only a taste of what Tess will have to face in the future.
ReplyDelete--Dayna M.
Wow i never found the irony in that until you just stated it. It really makes you think about how when everything seems to be going right in Tess' life, Hardy mixes things up and introduces some sort of tragedy in her life. Like for instance, when she decided to take control of her life at the end and take revenge for the man who raped her, she ends up being executed and giving the love of her life away to her sister.
ReplyDelete-Jehan T.
Ah! I began to make this connection, but I really thought it was just pure coincidence. However, after reading your analysis, it makes more sense. It was a foreshadow of her own life and definitely ironic. The funny thing is, it took me a while to realize how Prince died.
ReplyDeleteBoa K.
Wow, I know the above three posts said it as well but I never thought about it that way. Irony really does come in all shapes and sizes. Your connections you made are really smart and intuitive. I never would have thought it that way
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