Havisham 1st Half Revision Flashcards
“Beloved sweetheart bastard”
- alliteration of ‘b’, ‘p’ and ‘d’ sound suggests anger
* oxymoron:suggests conflict between love/hate, her feeling towards the groom that left her
“Prayed”
•Religious imagery, highlights her obsession with him
“Green”
•green for jealousy, shoes shes bitter, shows psychological anger snd bitterness
“Pebbles for eyes”
•metaphor comparing her eyes to pebbles, image suggests hard and cruel;he has made her this
“Ropes on the back of my hands”
•Metaphor suggests shes aging, as-well as the years spent “wringing her hands” with emotion
“Strangle”
•Theme of violence. Word choice is harsh which shows her anger and bitterness
“Spinster”
•single word sentence shows bitterness and her isolation, this is how she views herself
“Stink”
•shows she has never washed since her wedding day, metaphorical idea
“Cawing”
•idea of a crow ‘cawing’ ,like an animal in pain, dehumanising
“Nooooo”
•neologism created to represent the pain, this word highlights the grief and pain
“Yellowing”
•indicative of decay, shows that time has passed and her dress has went from white to yellow, metaphorically suggests she had decayed and now shes bitter
“Trembling”
- the dress trembles, personification
* she trembles when looking at the clothes of her past
“The slewed mirror”
•violent tone, mirror or broken/destroyed
“Her,myself, who did this”
•shes unable to identify herself, thinks shes an object as she says “her”, fights to keep her identity
