| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Salome by Oscar Wilde: la terre, et que toutes les femmes apprendront e ne pas imiter les
abominations de celle-le.
HERODIAS. Vous entendez ce qu'il dit contre moi? Vous le laissez
insulter votre epouse?
HERODE. Mais il n'a pas dit votre nom.
HERODIAS. Qu'est-ce que cela fait? Vous savez bien que c'est moi
qu'il cherche e insulter. Et je suis votre epouse, n'est-ce pas?
HERODE. Oui, chere et digne Herodias, vous etes mon epouse, et vous
avez commence par etre l'epouse de mon frere.
HERODIAS. C'est vous qui m'avez arrachee de ses bras.
HERODE. En effet, j'etais le plus fort . . . mais ne parlons pas de
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from The Tenant of Wildfell Hall by Bronte Sisters: either is, or pretends to be, quite reconciled to her lot. She
professes to have discovered numberless virtues and perfections in
her husband, some of which, I fear, less partial eyes would fail to
distinguish, though they sought them carefully with tears; and now
that she is accustomed to his loud voice, and abrupt, uncourteous
manners, she affirms she finds no difficulty in loving him as a
wife should do, and begs I will burn that letter wherein she spoke
so unadvisedly against him. So that I trust she may yet be happy;
but, if she is, it will be entirely the reward of her own goodness
of heart; for had she chosen to consider herself the victim of
fate, or of her mother's worldly wisdom, she might have been
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Return of the Native by Thomas Hardy: Clym hastily put together the logs on the hearth,
raked abroad the embers, which were scarcely yet extinct,
and blew up a flame with the bellows.
"Dry yourself," he said. "I'll go and get some more wood."
"No, no--don't stay for that. I'll make up the fire.
Will you go at once--please will you?"
Yeobright ran upstairs to finish dressing himself.
While he was gone another rapping came to the door.
This time there was no delusion that it might be Eustacia's--the
footsteps just preceding it had been heavy and slow.
Yeobright thinking it might possibly be Fairway with a note
Return of the Native |
