chapter 5-murder Flashcards
“murder”…
- title name establishes the novel as a detective fiction
- crime element
“if, as you say, your…
master has been murdered”
“impossible…
sir” RARKER
- Parker clearly confused
- suspense as the reader want to know if this is true
“it was my…
turn to stare”
- Sheppard playing the role of an outsider.. as though he has no involvement in the murder
- dual persona evident here
“I’ll take…
responsibility”
- Sheppard to Parker.
- Shows how reputation is key as if Parker we’re to break down the door it would be a problem
- Ironic as Sheppard then pins the murder on everyone else and is last to take responsibility
“Ackroyd was sitting as I had left him…
in the armchair before the fire”
- very telling on a second read as he literally says how he left Ackroyd in the chair
- place is significant
- Sheppard seems quite confident
“just below the collar of his coat, was…
a shining piece of twisted metalwork”
- inclusion of violence
- tells us about the killer, that he is brutal and sinister to murder someone this way
“I did what little had to be…
done. I was careful not to disturb the position of the body.”
- telling of the murder…again very incriminating to Sheppard, we just don’t know this yet.
“nothing must…
be moved”
-detection of the murder
” ‘no man could stab himself in such a way,’…
i said confidently”
-eliminates suicide. perhaps proud of his murder? could guess that from ‘confidently’
“the blue envelope containing…
Mrs. ferrars letter had disappeared”
- motive for the murder
- golden age-puzzle driven
“terribly sorry…
for this”
-comments on society at the time…murder of manners. Many people we’re polite.
“i explained the..
circumstances carefully”
- Sheppard doing this allows his voice to be heard, therefore most likely wont be a suspect
- lack of assertiveness from the detective.. allows Sheppard to take control
- police seem very amateur
“a telephone…
message”
-detection of murder
“well it’s open now…
anyway”
-Inspectors detection of the murder
