Mansfield, Prelude Flashcards
‘As she stood there…’
Chapter is this taken from?
‘As she stood there, the day flickered out and dark came’
2
‘She was frightened…’
Which chapter is this taken from?
‘She was frightened… IT was just behind her’
2
‘It was the first time that Lottie…’
Which chapter is this taken from?
‘It was the first time that Lottie and Kezia had been out so late. Everything looked so different’
2
What does the narrator describe as being ‘different’ at night?
What chapter is this in?
‘Wooden houses far smaller’
‘The garden far bigger and wider’
Beginning of chapter 3
What does Linda dream about? What does it foreshadow?
Give quote evidence
A chick hatches and becomes a human baby, foreshadowing her pregnancy
‘It had become a baby with a big naked head’
‘Strange bushes…’
‘Strange bushes with velvety leaves’
- as Kezia gets lost in the garden
‘There was something at…’
‘There was something at the back if Beryl’s mind. Something she did not even put into words herself’
What does Kezia repeat when pat decapitates the chicken?
Chapter 12
‘Put head back! Put heaps back!’
‘Head back! Head back! Until it sounded like a seance hiccup’
What is it that distracts Kezia from the trauma of the headless chicken?
Give a quote
What is this moment similar to?
Pat’s earrings
‘She never knew that men wore earrings. She was very much surprised’ p.109
Similar to the moment Laurie gets distracted from her trauma of the dead boy. She catches a glimpse of herself in the mirror and is taken back by her appearance
- ‘never had I imagined I could look like that’
‘In a way, of course it was…’
‘In a way, of course it was all perfectly true, but in another way it was all the greatest rubbish and she didn’t have time for it’
P.118
‘It was her other…’
What other Mansfield story does this duality of character link to to?
‘It was her other self who had written that letter’
Laura’s internal conflict between her bourgeois self and her surpassed self who wants to rebel against the ‘absurd class distinctions’
P.118
‘She jumped up and half…’
‘She jumped up and half consciously, half unconsciously she drifted over to the looking glass’
P.118, aunt beryl
What flower was in bloom on the ‘other side’ of the garden?
‘Camellias were in bloom’
- Camellias aren’t aren’t native to New Zealand, whereas the ‘tangle of tall dark trees’ with their ‘velvety leaves’ on the ‘frightening side’ presumably are native to the country.
Can this be linked to Freud? Wrote that the uncanny derives from the familiar
