CH2- Exodus Flashcards
What theme and poems would be good to compare to Exodus?
-Mother/daughter relationships
-The female gender
-The Light Gatherer
-The Long Queen
What context is important to remember for Exodus?
-1960s gender roles taught in schools
-Working class vs middle class
What methods do we see in Exodus?
-Metanarrative of Tetrahedron
-Motif of orange
-Presentation of Elsie
-narrative digression of deafness
-setting of school
-bathos
-characterisation of the Church
What quotes support the method of: metanarrative of Tetrahedron?”
“elastic band over a series of nails”
“flooding the plain with light”
“many brought gifts”
What quotes support the method of: motif of orange?
“Oranges are the only fruit”
“she gave me an orange… I tried to build an igloo out of it”
“I couldn’t attract her attention, so I took an orange and went back to bed”
What quotes support the method of: presentation of Elsie?
“she told me jokes to make me smile and stories to make me feel better”
What quotes support the method of: narrative digression of deafness?
“I had assumed myself to be in a state of rapture”
What quotes support the method of: setting of school?
“lettering all in black and the border all in white”
What quotes support the method of: bathos?
“I had all kinds of variations, but usually I drowned it” J challenging mother’s views in Elsie’s home
What quotes support the method of: characterisation of the church?
“The Faithful had gone back to their chorus sheets as though nothing was happening at all”
What is the link between Oranges and the Biblical Exodus?
Elsie acts as a prophet (like Moses) to guide Jeanette to a Promised Land of Truth
What is the significance of the metanarrative?
Tetrahedron is an emperor with many faces. It is a retelling of how Elsie’s Liberal Arts Education has burgeoned her knowledge and worldview and Jeanette is therefore able to start questioning her mother.
What is the plot summary for Exodus?
- Jeanette goes to school (not a success)
- Story of deafness
- Story of the ‘old flames’
- Introduction of Elsie and her Liberal Arts education for Jeanette
- METANARRATIVE OF TETRAHEDRON
