Burial Rites Flashcards
quote relating to Blondal’s power
“Your father’s title comes with responsibility”
power: Agnes claims to be a
“We are peasants”
power: what is society to people in power
“Blöndal knows you slave to his will”
how does Agnes get known that she is lower in sociery
“Remember your place, Agnes!”
What do people only see in Agnes
“They will see the whore, the madwoman, the murderess”
how can Agnes being odd be shown
“All my life people have thought I was too clever.”
the effect of Agnes being too smart
“they don’t pity me”
why was Sigga let off
“Sigga is dumb and pretty and young”
Quote of the judgement of Agnes (Toti to Agnes)
“People claim to know you through the things you’ve done”
“listening to you speak for yourself”
if Agnes was different in what way
“If I was young and simple-minded….pointing the finger at me”
when realised how Natan was taking advantage of her
“I knew then what Rósa meant when she had called us his whores.”
quote relating to agnes being able to voice her truth
‘If I tell you something, will you promise to believe me”
how agnes is viewed as inhumane
“like an animal to them”
Margert standing up for Agnes
“keep her bound like a lamb ripe for slaughter?”
quote on Agnes telling her story to margret
“want to touch her on the arm…want to reassure her”
quote showing how society banished Agnes
“So lonely I make friends with the ravens that prey on lambs.”
quote on illegitimate children
“it seems a lesser crime to create a child with an unmarried man than one already bound in flesh and soul to another woman.”
quote on that there is no voice to agnes’s truth
“No such thing as truth.”
quote on Natan and society
“He was a sourcer… And he got what was coming”
quote on Agne’s predetermined fate
“They said I must die”
quote on how Agnes has already been killed
“there’s more than one way a body can die”
