Oranges are not the only fruit Flashcards
quote that shows the Manichean outlook of Mrs Winterson and the manifestation of fundamentalist christian views
“She had never heard of mixed feelings. There were friends and there were enemies.”
“she was in the white corner and that was that”
“christians go to heaven and everyone else goes to hell”
how do fundamentalist christian views reflect ideas expressed in Deuteronomy
- believe “the bible states the truth without error”, “every sentence is true and correct”
- winterson makes us question its legitimacy “fishiest of fish tales”
- dominated by the male voice
Tetrahedron meta narrative significance and quotes
- “a palace made absolutely from elastic bands” J’s creativity, imagination separates her, like her homosexuality
J’s deterioration of her relationship with the church
“Now I was finding that even the church was sometimes confused
L’s controlling nature and lack of emotion towards J
- “get a child, train it, dedicate it to the Lord”
- deafness L: “a state of rapture” “this child’s not full of the Spirit…she’s deaf” said Mrs J
Princess meta narrative significance and quotes
“So sensitive that the death of a moth could distress her for weeks”
Saved by a hunchback such says she has “great energy and resourcefulness”
Both J and L have highly sexual natures and try to hide them
The Church as militaristic, manipulative
- Melanie as “bovine”
- “wax figures”
How is lesbianism referred to by the church
- “fallen under Satan’s spell”
- Finch uses the no.7 to preach how quickly innocence can become “a house of demons”
- Miss Jewsbury as predatory yet protective, J “hated and hated” it when they had sex yet couldn’t stop.
Something she hated at the time yet eventually accepts
Evidence of J’s increasing sexual awareness
- two women owning paper shop “Unnatural Passion”
- women refer to husbands as “pigs”, fairytales where women marry “beasts”
- feels embarrassed around “necking” couples as taught that sex is sinful
- eventually comes to own conclusion that women can choose to be with other women
Evidence of J’s deterioting relationship with her mother and increasing sense of self
“What is it about intimacy that makes it so
very disturbing?”
“She burnt a lot more than the letters that night.”
“to distinguish the chalk circle from the
stone wall … a wall for the body, a circle for the soul,”
Perfection meta narrative significance and quotes
“without blemish inside or out, flawless in every respect.”
- no success, goose says prince modify expectations, chops off head.
- writes book on perfection: only way world can be
saved from corruption is producing “world full of perfect beings.” woman not interested, head cut off bc didnt conform
- prince said he “stamped out a very great evil
quote to show the hypocrisy of the church
- mrs w is manifestation of its manichean nature
- enemies “sex in its many forms” but book of “old flames”, repressed female sexuality, lesbian tendencies in heteronormative setting
how do the woman who shopped and oranges connect
the woman and J both are shunned by society for not conforming to heteronormative expectations, prioritise their own desires as women
doesn’t prioritise the “groom”, )
- Allusion, Ovid’s Metamorphoses (terrible fates exacted on overreaching, aspiring mortals)
- ‘stone hair’, birds ‘shriek’ -> classical harpies
- present punishable ‘sin’ that offends the gods
her own desires:
Image of prostitution- welcomes/anticipates being the vehicle of an obscene capitalist ceremony - the desecration of her own body.
J shunned by society for prioritising her sexuality over satisfying her church’s dogma
what does w’s spiral narrative show?
- metanarratives are allegorical manifestations of J’s desire to escape from her own self-imposed limitations on her identity
quote to show repressed female sexuality
- mother’s conversion “v romantic”
princess metanarrative - “great energy”, in fairytale
