Doctors Flashcards
what does Rezia call Dr Holmes initially?
“kind man” “only wanted to help them”
What does Dr Holmes call Septimus after he killed himself?
“coward”
Dr Holmes believes there’s nothing matter with Septimus
“There was nothing whatever the matter”
Bradshaw as a capitalist
“he had won his position by sheer ability”
Bradshaw and proportion
“divine proportion” “worshipping proportion” he “shared his sense of proportion”- religious/ biblical imagery
Bradshaw and conversion
“she feasts on the wills of the weakly, loving to impress, to impose”- sinister metaphor, death of the soul
Bradshaw killing Lady Bradshaw’s soul
Lady Bradshaw became “quick to minister the craving which lit her husband’s eye so oilily for domination, for power”-grotesque
Bradshaw as a killer
“he swooped; he devoured”-bird imagery “he shut people up”
Holmes and Bradshaw with order
“men who never weighed less than eleven stone six”
Bradshaw as powerful through materials
his “motor car, low, powerful, grey with plain initials interlocked”
Bradshaw as a servant of the establishment, connected to religion
“the ghostly helper”
“the priest of science”
