Fountain Chapter Flashcards
What chapter is cecilias perspective of the vase ?
Two
What chapter is brionys perspective of the vase/ fountain scene?
3
How is this scene signicant?
Although nothing has happened the scenes are tense / dramatic.
Emphasised by the hot day.
Builds up relationship of C and R.
How is C and Rs relationship described as initially ?
“Childhood friend and university acquaintance, Robbie Turner”
Description of Tallis house
“Any light could not conceal the ugliness of the Tallis house”
Ironic
Foreboding
“Tragedy of wasted chances”
C’s description of her mother
“When she wasn’t nurturing her migraines, seemed distant, even unfriendly”
Emily’s crime
Neglect
Isolation
As result of Emily’s inactive mother role, where is briony lost to?
“Briony was lost to her writing fantasies”
Description of the weather
“It was too hot”
“End in calamity”
Builds up sexual tension
Quote which suggest C likes R
“Would have liked to check her appearance in the large gilt little”
“She liked his eyes”
“She liked the fact he was tall. It was an interesting combination in a man”
“There was something between them”
Ironic as the Tallis house is brutal
“If it had survived war… then it could survive the tallises”
Robbies guilt at early stage . Forebording
“Assumed full responsibility”
Foreshadowing
C’s actions after Robbie smashed vase
“Her movements were savage, and she would not meet his eye. He did not exist, he was banished, and this was also his punishment”
How does briony describe the foundation scene ?
“Illogical- the drowning scene, followed by a rescue, should preceded the marriage proposal… briony did not understand”
“She knew nothing about as yet” of adult behaviour
Crux of novel.
Brionys mistake
“what power one could have over the other, and how easy it was to get everything wrong, completely wrong”
“Failure to grasp simple truth”
Foreshadowing crimes against reader
“6 decades later she would describe how at the age of 14 she as written her way through a whole history of literature… one special morning during a heatwave in 1934”
“She could were the scene 3 times over, from 3 points of view”
