Porphyria's Lover Flashcards
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Porphyria’s Lover Quotes
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“She worshipped me”
“My heart swell and still it grew”
“I am quite sure she felt no pain”
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Porphyria’s Lover techniques
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- anaphora and rhythmic variation
- contrapuntal dialogue
- psychological realism
- euphemism
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Porphyria’s Lover context
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- Victorian attitudes towards morality and sex - repressive view of sexuality
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Link to crime text
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Poe’s Tell-Tale Heart: narrator is driven to murder and then consumed by guilt
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Elements of Crime
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- murder and betrayal
- resolution and punishment
- comment on society
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Psychoanalytic theory
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psychological ideas about repression and displacement - Freud
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Deconstructionist Theory
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the poem undermines binary oppositions like love and hate, and sanity and madness - questions stability of narrator
