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English - Comparative (The Dressmaker) Flashcards

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Power - Gertrude

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“everyone must do what I say”

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Power - Pettyman

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“Dungatar’s richest man”

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Power - Pettyman

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“She was limped but he positioned her as he wanted her.”

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Power - Pettyman

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“tormented me and kept me as your mistress”

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Pain - Tilly

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“thin, tired country-ruddy face with red rimming eyes”

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Pain - Irma Almanac

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“framed by roses … used to have a lot of falls”

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Pain - Tilly

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“everyone I’ve touched is hurt, or dead”

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Pain - Tilly

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“Bitterness rested on Tilly’s soul and wore itself on her face.”

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Femininity - Gertrude

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“good mule”

“fine silk taffeta gown”

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Femininity - Tilly

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“draping them in luxurious materials … so they knew how it felt to be caressed and affluent” juxtaposed against “sharp demands”

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Isolation - Molly

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“skeleton wearing a tea cozy”

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Isolation - Molly

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“crowds of invisible people around her bed”

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Isolation - The Hill

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“cast a shadow over the town”

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Isolation - Molly

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“I went mad with loneliness for you”

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Isolation - Molly

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“This is what they’ve done to you.”

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Heroism - Tilly

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“She was wreathed in a brilliant halo”

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Guilt - Tilly

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“wet blood on the dry grass outside”

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Guilt - Tilly

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“Tilly knew she must stay in Dungatar for a kind of penance.”

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Guilt - Tilly

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“A feverish nausea swamped her, guilt, and she said to herself, it wasn’t my fault.”

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Guilt - Tilly

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“it’s guilt, and the evil inside me - I carry it around with me, in me, all the time.”

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Guilt - Tilly

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“still Myrtle”

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Insular community - Prudence Dimm

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“had taught the children of Dungatar for as long as anyone could remember”

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Insular community - Mae

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“Nothing ever really changes Myrtle”

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Insular community - Tilly

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“She’s got a nerve I tell you, turned up wearing a very bold frock- obscene”

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Insular community - Molly

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“it’s open slather on outcasts”

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Insular community - Almanac

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“Percival says God is responsible for everything.”

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Insular community

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“houses of Dungatar… were dissected by a thin, gravel road”

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Insular community - Molly

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“I came to hope you wouldn’t come back to this awful place”

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Insular community - Molly

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“They’re all liars, sinners and hypocrites.”

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Truth - Septimius Crescent

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“to speak the truth can earn a bleeding nose”

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Truth - Tilly

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“wasn’t mentioned”

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Truth

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“You can’t keep anything secret here… Everybody knows everything about everyone, but no one tittle-tattles because then someone else will tell on them.”

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Truth - Elsbeth Beaumont

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“moth-eaten fox fur”

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Fear - Pettyman

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“ladies of Dungatar… turn their backs”

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Vengeance - Almanac

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“sin, the cause for all disease”

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Vengeance - Almanac

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“God will see to her”

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Revenge - Tilly

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“her mind raced with venom and hate for herself and the people of Dungatar.”

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Revenge - Tilly

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“Pain will no longer be our curse… It is our revenge and our reason.”

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Revenge - Tilly

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“burned out of existence”

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Prejudice - Teddy

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“an outcast until he proved himself an asset”

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Judgement - Lois & Nancy

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“At least have a preference for men”

“sick”

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Judgement - Molly & Tilly

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“country folk watched the illegitimate girl push her mad mother - loose woman and hag - across the road”

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Judgement - Sergeant Farrat

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“I’m beyond caring what those people think or say anymore. I’m sure everyone’s seen what’s on my clothes line of the years”

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Prejudice - Molly

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“Everyone likes to have someone to hate”.

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Prejudice - Teddy

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“nice girls liked him, but he was a McSwiney”

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Prejudice - Tilly

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“scrubbed out her name”

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Hysteria

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“they all started to cry… groaned and rocked, bawled and howled”

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Hysteria - Edward McSwiney

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“Edward always remembered the look on Evan’s face at that moment… when he realised fully what it all meant, what it had come to”

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Self-protection - Sergeant Farrat

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“in Dungatar he wore them only inside the house”

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Self-interest - Gertrude & William

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“I thought you loved me. What about my reputation?”

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Description - Molly

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“Old Mad Molly”

“mad woman”

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Description - Tilly

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“qualified seamstress and dressmaker”

“cursed”

“bastard”

“murderess”

VCE - 2023 (5 decks)

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