English - Comparative (The Dressmaker) Flashcards
Power - Gertrude
“everyone must do what I say”
Power - Pettyman
“Dungatar’s richest man”
Power - Pettyman
“She was limped but he positioned her as he wanted her.”
Power - Pettyman
“tormented me and kept me as your mistress”
Pain - Tilly
“thin, tired country-ruddy face with red rimming eyes”
Pain - Irma Almanac
“framed by roses … used to have a lot of falls”
Pain - Tilly
“everyone I’ve touched is hurt, or dead”
Pain - Tilly
“Bitterness rested on Tilly’s soul and wore itself on her face.”
Femininity - Gertrude
“good mule”
“fine silk taffeta gown”
Femininity - Tilly
“draping them in luxurious materials … so they knew how it felt to be caressed and affluent” juxtaposed against “sharp demands”
Isolation - Molly
“skeleton wearing a tea cozy”
Isolation - Molly
“crowds of invisible people around her bed”
Isolation - The Hill
“cast a shadow over the town”
Isolation - Molly
“I went mad with loneliness for you”
Isolation - Molly
“This is what they’ve done to you.”
Heroism - Tilly
“She was wreathed in a brilliant halo”
Guilt - Tilly
“wet blood on the dry grass outside”
Guilt - Tilly
“Tilly knew she must stay in Dungatar for a kind of penance.”
Guilt - Tilly
“A feverish nausea swamped her, guilt, and she said to herself, it wasn’t my fault.”
Guilt - Tilly
“it’s guilt, and the evil inside me - I carry it around with me, in me, all the time.”
Guilt - Tilly
“still Myrtle”
Insular community - Prudence Dimm
“had taught the children of Dungatar for as long as anyone could remember”
Insular community - Mae
“Nothing ever really changes Myrtle”
Insular community - Tilly
“She’s got a nerve I tell you, turned up wearing a very bold frock- obscene”
Insular community - Molly
“it’s open slather on outcasts”
Insular community - Almanac
“Percival says God is responsible for everything.”
Insular community
“houses of Dungatar… were dissected by a thin, gravel road”
Insular community - Molly
“I came to hope you wouldn’t come back to this awful place”
Insular community - Molly
“They’re all liars, sinners and hypocrites.”
Truth - Septimius Crescent
“to speak the truth can earn a bleeding nose”
Truth - Tilly
“wasn’t mentioned”
Truth
“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.”
Truth - Elsbeth Beaumont
“moth-eaten fox fur”
Fear - Pettyman
“ladies of Dungatar… turn their backs”
Vengeance - Almanac
“sin, the cause for all disease”
Vengeance - Almanac
“God will see to her”
Revenge - Tilly
“her mind raced with venom and hate for herself and the people of Dungatar.”
Revenge - Tilly
“Pain will no longer be our curse… It is our revenge and our reason.”
Revenge - Tilly
“burned out of existence”
Prejudice - Teddy
“an outcast until he proved himself an asset”
Judgement - Lois & Nancy
“At least have a preference for men”
“sick”
Judgement - Molly & Tilly
“country folk watched the illegitimate girl push her mad mother - loose woman and hag - across the road”
Judgement - Sergeant Farrat
“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”
Prejudice - Molly
“Everyone likes to have someone to hate”.
Prejudice - Teddy
“nice girls liked him, but he was a McSwiney”
Prejudice - Tilly
“scrubbed out her name”
Hysteria
“they all started to cry… groaned and rocked, bawled and howled”
Hysteria - Edward McSwiney
“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”
Self-protection - Sergeant Farrat
“in Dungatar he wore them only inside the house”
Self-interest - Gertrude & William
“I thought you loved me. What about my reputation?”
Description - Molly
“Old Mad Molly”
“mad woman”
Description - Tilly
“qualified seamstress and dressmaker”
“cursed”
“bastard”
“murderess”
