Chapter 5 Quotes Flashcards
Sibyl to her mother
‘Prince Charming rules…
life for us now’
‘A rose shook in her blood, and shadowed her cheeks. Quick breath parted the petals of her lips. They trembled. Some southern wind of passions swept over her and stirred the dainty folds of her dress
‘I love him’ she said simply…
‘Foolish child! Foolish child!’ was the parrot-phrase flung in answer. The waving of crooked false jewelled fingers gave grotesqueness to the words.
‘The girl laughed again. The joy…
Of a caged bird was in her voice.’
She is trapped in her life of poverty and the theatre but is beautiful and desires freedom like a caged bird.
Sibyl to James
‘You are a dreadful…
old bear’
he is shot like a wild animal at the end
James to Sibyl
‘Only swell people…
go to the park’
shows the class divide in Victorian London
'’Kiss me mother’ said the girl. Her flower like lips touched the withered cheek and warmed it’s frost. ‘My child! My child!’ cried Mrs Vane…
looking up to the ceiling in search of an imaginary gallery’
she is melodramatic
flower like lips, beauty natural of sibyl
James and Sibyl
‘He was like a common gardener…
walking with a rose’
shows his desire to protect her so she flourishes. Rose image shows her beauty
James
‘This young dandy who was making…
love to her could mean her no good’
Sibyl
‘Prince Charming, my wonderful lover, my god of graces. But I am poor beside him. Poor? What does that matter?…
When poverty creeps in at the door love flies in through the window’
shows her desire to marry above her (radical for Victorian society) to escape her life.
James and Sibyl
‘He wants to enslave you’ …
’ I shudder at the thought of being free’
Description in the park
‘The brightly coloured parasols danced and dipped like…
monstrous butterflies’
London is a monstrous place, foreshadows Sibyl’s death
James and Sibyl
‘If he ever does you any wrong I shall kill him’
‘She looked at him in horror. He repeated his words…
They cut the air like a dagger. The people round began to gape.’
foreshadowing
James
‘If this man wrongs my sister, I will find out who he is, track him down…
and kill him like a dog. I swear it’
he does try to kill him
