birdsong quotes Flashcards
Elizabeth essay 3 points
1 ignorant
2 Faulks voice
3 modern day feminist
Elizabeth as ignorance 5 quotes
1 “Elizabeth bensons signed in impatience”
2 “she had returned from a two day business trip”
3 “for her generation there was no intensity”
4 “ugly arch” “nobody told me” “dumped in a meadow”
5 “morbid to dwell on it” “ancient history” “depressing”
Elizabeth as vessel for change Faulks voice X5 quotes
1 "ancient history" 2 "mildly curious" 3 "danger of loosing touch with the past" 4 "it mattered passionately" 5 "a promise made by her grandfather"
Elizabeth as feminist X3
1 “she liked living alone”
2 “she began to feel helpless and dependent”
3 “you say you run it, you’re the boss? are you”
4 “does it matter?” “I don’t think it does”
5 “he’s never going to leave his wife
jean as the maternal healer
1 "im drawn to the idea of independence" 2 "I am her only friend" 3 "she felt him beginning to sob" 4 "I understand you must be strong" 5 "let me hold you" "because I love you"
Isabelle X5 quotes
1 “my wife is a mysterious creature”
2 “disappointed her father by not being the son he wanted”
3 “he felt a simple elation of victory”
4 “she’s coming with me”
5 “she became content with it more than she accepted it” “Azaire became desperate”
Stephen before war X5 quotes
1 “he pulled her towards him”
2 “he was a boy, he was the dearest boy”
3 “the terrible piling up of the dead”
4 “keener psychical life than she was receiving”
5 “wrapped both of his arms around her so that she could not escape”
Stephen during war quote X5
1 you a cold bastard Wraysford
2 felt himself grow cold
3 this is a test of how far men can be degraded
4 animal matter less dear, less valuable than the flesh of the men he had seen die”
5 then I will have them for you
Stephen after war
1 he never really recovered
2 let me hold you
3 kind gentle
4 because I love you
Jack Firebrace essay points three
religion, jack and shaw, role of minors
religion Jack Firebrace points
1 he was a gift from god 2 do my duty as a christian 3 supported by a wooden cross 4 my boy, my darling boy 5 come home to me 6 innocence was a kind of hope
Jack Firebrace and shaw
“admiring huge back, with the muscles slabbed and spread across his shoulder blades”
pre war society quotes mysogony
1 she is a woman of nervous temperament. it signifies nothing
2 a man bored by his houseful of a woman
3 he subsequently experiences a kind of emotional powerlessness towards Isabelle
pre war setting, azaires house and the river somme
lilac willows cultivated to give shade and quietness to their owners flank wagons squared off patches of grass and wildflowers river somme broke into small calnals unregarded passageways
hypocrisy in pre war society
strong formal front iron railings sold display her to his friends unregarded passageways medieval a tour of azaires business operations we need to retrench