Prose

Question 1

Lifeless thing

Answer 1

The vague language is emphatic of dismissal of the human life, which Victor has created

Question 2

The dull yellow eye of the creature

Answer 2

The colour yellow often has connotations of sickness and contamination, suggesting the corrupt nature of Victor’s actions. This can be linked to yellow skin and black lips etc.

Question 3

Savage inhabitant of some undiscovered country

Question 4

Vile insect, abhorred monster, unearthly, ugliness

Answer 4

Victor views his creation as inhumane and sees the monster with discussed

Question 5

Who and when was Paradise Lost written?

Answer 5

It was written in 1667 by the poet, John Milton

Question 6

I ought to be thy Adam, but I am rather the fallen angel

Answer 6

Allude to Paradise Lost, the epic poem, written by John Milton, that the monster reads was observing the de Lacey’s →> suggesting that like Lucifer, the monster is subjected, and is a victim of an oppressive power, which is Victor

Question 7

Making a wretched appearance after the palaces I had be held in the village

Answer 7

Emphatic of how dehumanising his abode is in comparison to civilisation

Question 8

My kennel /Exposed by a pigsty

Answer 8

an animalistic imagery, almost describing monster as subhuman → can link to ‘ a being, which had the shape of a man“

Question 9

Agreeable asylum /Paradise

Answer 9

The monster, as desperate, he sees his cramped and dirty place as desirable, due to the abuse faced from humans. He now has a warped perception of reality.

Question 10

I could have torn him limb from limb as a lion rends the antelope

Answer 10

When Felix attacks, the monster he could have savaged him, displaying the restraint and humanity, which Felix lacks, ironically presenting Felix as a supernatural and inhumane being

Question 11

As the night advanced a fierce wind arose from the woods

Answer 11

The pathetic fallacy shows the monsters, rage and intense sadness as a physical force

Question 12

The forked and destroying tongues

Answer 12

The personification presents fire as a living force also having devilish connotations, making it clear how the monster is the “fallen angel “now and not“Adam “ → biblical/hellish imagery

Question 13

The blast tore, along like a mighty avalanche

Answer 13

The blast mirrors, the monsters emotional state as he is enraged by the de Lacey’s rejection

Question 14

I was poor, helpless, miserable wretch … and I knew I could distinguish nothing, but feeling pain, invaded me on all sides. I sat down and wept.

Answer 14

The monster doesn’t understand why he is hated and ostracised. The listing is emphatic and presents the monster as vulnerable.

Question 15

I was benevolent and good misery made me a fiend

Answer 15

The monster reflects on how his experiences have made him excluded from society, not even his creator offers him comfort

Question 16

My limbs failed me, and I sank to the ground

Answer 16

‘The monsters, physical reaction against his emotional desire perhaps suggest his underlying feeling of what will soon happen

Question 17

I will be with you on your wedding night

Answer 17

The monsters warning to Victor, after he destroys his female companion

Question 18

It’s just as well, the fences at Hailsham aren’t electrified

Answer 18

Miss Lucy observes, how Hailsham is not as idyllic as Kathy suggests

Question 19

There are times over the years where I’ve tried to leave Hailsham behind

Answer 19

Cathy is nostalgic about her time in Hailsham. ‘’ It reminded me of those sweet little cottages “.

Question 20

Quotes to perhaps present a symbol of restriction

Answer 20

rowS of windows are naturally high up/dark fringe of trees /I might have the corner of a misty field/ wire mesh fences

Question 21

I don’t know what it was like where you were

Answer 21

Phrase is repeated throughout the novel to make Kathy’s story seem directly relevant to the reader

Question 22

All you could see was a dark fringe of trees

Answer 22

Presents this as a foreboding and sinister environment, contrasting, Kathy’s idyllic description

Question 23

She looks like a crouching animal waiting to pounce

Answer 23

‘Miss Lucy, before she speaks to the clones about how they have been “told and not told “

Question 24

Ruth’s recovery centre is“like entering a hall of mirrors “

Answer 24

The simile presenting it as a uneasy environment, where the clones identity becomes distorted and warped

Question 25

Ruth recovery centre the sea is being described as ‘right over in the distance ‘

Answer 25

Clones as cut off and disconnected from the beauty of the natural world. There are unnatural and other.

Question 26

She was afraid of us in the same way, someone might be afraid of spiders

Answer 26

She has an irrational fear of the clones. She views them as other and inhumane. Can link this to, you could see her stiffen as if a pair of spiders were set to crawl towards her. → The structural parrell shows how madame has not changed since the start of the text, and still views, the clones as other

Question 27

The outlying ones that were virtually falling down

Answer 27

Conveys a lack of proper care, the program as a rushed and careless

Question 28

The cottages where the remains of a farm that had gone out of business

Answer 28

The clones was seen as inhumane being formed for their organs as cattle being harvested for profit

Question 29

None of you will go to America… none of you

Answer 29

‘The anaphoric repetition of negatives for shadows, the reality of the clones situation as being restricted and controlled by society

Question 30

Downpour /Rain sky /the rain kept going

Answer 30

The heavy rain, perhaps symbolic of the clone suddenly being exposed to a harsh and unignorable truth

Question 31

I could see the Sun coming in big shafts.

Answer 31

The pathetic fallacy, perhaps representing a moment of hope, as Kathy subconsciously, considers the idea of being a monster herself

Question 32

Like she was seeing something that gave her the creeps

Answer 32

Madame perceives the clones as inhumane and frightening

Question 33

Since I was there, all by myself, an impulse made me get the cassette out

Answer 33

Cathy, displaying human like behaviour as she does it without thinking intrinsically

Question 34

The problem, as I see is that you’ve been told, and not told

Answer 34

Miss Lucy

Question 35

Ghostly dead trunks /The weak sun /the tree trunks, hollow and emaciated

Answer 35

Semantic field of death and decay symbolic off the clones physical state

Question 36

Beached under the marches / stranded

Answer 36

‘Like the boat, the clones exist in the liminal state, and not ordered, unable to get true, freedom

Question 37

It had once been painted the sky blue, but now looked almost white

Answer 37

The imagery suggest depreciation of clones, hope to white its clinical and empty

Question 38

She spun around, like a thrown something at her

Answer 38

My damn reuniting, with Tommy, still having that irrational fear of the clones

Question 39

Road carved onto a cliff /Virtually suspended over the sea/once again near a cliff

Answer 39

Eshiguro’s repeated reference to a cliff can be linked to Ruth finding /in search for her possible
the cliff represents a sudden and dramatic change as a clone face up to the impossibility of finding their possible.

Question 40

We could see hills in the distance that reminded us of Hailsham, but they seem to use oddly crooked

Answer 40

Cottages are similar to Halsham albeit as a distorted and less welcoming version

Question 41

Like a dog doing a pee /mad animal

Answer 41

The clones dehumanising Tommy, perhaps due to them, internalising their own oppression. Animal imagery and derogatory language.

Question 42

Were modelled from trash, junkies, prostitute, winos, tramps

Answer 42

Asynthetic Listing conveys Cathy‘s anger and pain → the clones liken themselves to the lowest of society mer are a produce of human waste ‘

Question 43

There was a great big glass front at street level

Answer 43

I ironic, as it represents a life of freedom and humanity, the clones can see, but never truly achieve.

Question 44

Cottages as ‘chilly’ /really cold /the rough ground frozen bone hard

Answer 44

Convey how the clones become exposed to the harness of the Real world, for the first time, juxtaposing, Hailsham and part one

Question 45

The potted, palms, the shiny machines, and the swooping desk lamps

Answer 45

The listing represents the modern setting of the open plan office, contrasting the out of date cottages

Question 46

He didn’t like to talk to us much

Answer 46

Keffers representing the societal view towards the clones

Question 47

She saw and decided in the second what we were /she took her shoulders in tightly as she passed between us

Answer 47

Madame sees the clones as inhumane and other

Question 48

The lost corner

Answer 48

The repetition of the phrase emphasizes the clone’s affinity with place, while structurally foreshadowing where clones will end up →> to create a sense of containment, Ishiguro then places Kathy in Norfolk in the final chapter

Question 49

Rubbish / torn plastic / bits of old carrier bags

Answer 49

The clones are used for a function and carelessly disreguarded, after their like of restriction (wires/fences)