Episode 2

Question 1

What does Helen represent?

Answer 1

The growing suffrage movement that was emerging

- women questioning traditional roles

Question 2

Symbolism of ‘garbage’

Answer 2

Mother likes this job

• values routine
• machine to domesticity
• conforms to society

Question 3

Helen and rubber gloves

Answer 3

Her mother says she doesn’t need gloves

• Helen values and wants to protect her hands
• keeping her sexually desirable
• will later use these gloves for a much more sinister task

Question 4

Home environment set

Answer 4

Juxtaposition to what you would usually expect a characters home environment to look like

Question 5

Light

Answer 5

Cuts through background scenery and provides a contrast between light and shadow

Question 6

Psychological realism

Answer 6

Look more inwardly specifically at the inner workings of the human mind

Question 7

Young women is struggling to contain her

Answer 7

Emotional turmoil and represses her true feelings

Question 8

Home atmosphere

Answer 8

Assume it will be a comfortable atmosphere

Question 9

When speaking to her mother, the young woman is

Answer 9

Easily distracted from her speech inferring an element of fear within the relationship

Question 10

Young woman monologue

Answer 10

Combination of short stilted dialogue alongside long rambling monologue

Question 11

What does the mother represent?

Answer 11

The older generation

Question 12

Levels of positivity

Answer 12

And negativity

• particular expectations that have been lost
• maybe the mother is living out her life through the daughter