Full Fathom Five

Question 1

Key points

Answer 1

• Reference to Ariel’s song in ‘The Tempest’, in which Ferdinand is falsely told that his father Alonso is dead
• Deifies Otto Plath, likening him to Neptune/Poseidon
• Explores the powerful, even devastating effects that memories of her father have on her

Question 2

Key quotations

Answer 2

• ‘A dragnet’
• ‘Whirlpools’
• ‘You may wind to root deep among knuckles, shin-bones, skulls’
• ‘I would breathe water’