Prose Flashcards
Lifeless thing
The vague language is emphatic of dismissal of the human life, which Victor has created
The dull yellow eye of the creature
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.
Savage inhabitant of some undiscovered country
Vile insect, abhorred monster, unearthly, ugliness
Victor views his creation as inhumane and sees the monster with discussed
Who and when was Paradise Lost written?
It was written in 1667 by the poet, John Milton
I ought to be thy Adam, but I am rather the fallen angel
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
Making a wretched appearance after the palaces I had be held in the village
Emphatic of how dehumanising his abode is in comparison to civilisation
My kennel /Exposed by a pigsty
an animalistic imagery, almost describing monster as subhuman → can link to ‘ a being, which had the shape of a man“
Agreeable asylum /Paradise
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.
I could have torn him limb from limb as a lion rends the antelope
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
As the night advanced a fierce wind arose from the woods
The pathetic fallacy shows the monsters, rage and intense sadness as a physical force
The forked and destroying tongues
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
The blast tore, along like a mighty avalanche
The blast mirrors, the monsters emotional state as he is enraged by the de Lacey’s rejection
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.
The monster doesn’t understand why he is hated and ostracised. The listing is emphatic and presents the monster as vulnerable.
I was benevolent and good misery made me a fiend
The monster reflects on how his experiences have made him excluded from society, not even his creator offers him comfort
My limbs failed me, and I sank to the ground
‘The monsters, physical reaction against his emotional desire perhaps suggest his underlying feeling of what will soon happen
I will be with you on your wedding night
The monsters warning to Victor, after he destroys his female companion
It’s just as well, the fences at Hailsham aren’t electrified
Miss Lucy observes, how Hailsham is not as idyllic as Kathy suggests
There are times over the years where I’ve tried to leave Hailsham behind
Cathy is nostalgic about her time in Hailsham. ‘’ It reminded me of those sweet little cottages “.
Quotes to perhaps present a symbol of restriction
rowS of windows are naturally high up/dark fringe of trees /I might have the corner of a misty field/ wire mesh fences
I don’t know what it was like where you were
Phrase is repeated throughout the novel to make Kathy’s story seem directly relevant to the reader
All you could see was a dark fringe of trees
Presents this as a foreboding and sinister environment, contrasting, Kathy’s idyllic description
She looks like a crouching animal waiting to pounce
‘Miss Lucy, before she speaks to the clones about how they have been “told and not told “
Ruth’s recovery centre is“like entering a hall of mirrors “
The simile presenting it as a uneasy environment, where the clones identity becomes distorted and warped
Ruth recovery centre the sea is being described as ‘right over in the distance ‘
Clones as cut off and disconnected from the beauty of the natural world. There are unnatural and other.
She was afraid of us in the same way, someone might be afraid of spiders
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
The outlying ones that were virtually falling down
Conveys a lack of proper care, the program as a rushed and careless
The cottages where the remains of a farm that had gone out of business
The clones was seen as inhumane being formed for their organs as cattle being harvested for profit
None of you will go to America… none of you
‘The anaphoric repetition of negatives for shadows, the reality of the clones situation as being restricted and controlled by society
Downpour /Rain sky /the rain kept going
The heavy rain, perhaps symbolic of the clone suddenly being exposed to a harsh and unignorable truth
I could see the Sun coming in big shafts.
The pathetic fallacy, perhaps representing a moment of hope, as Kathy subconsciously, considers the idea of being a monster herself
Like she was seeing something that gave her the creeps
Madame perceives the clones as inhumane and frightening
Since I was there, all by myself, an impulse made me get the cassette out
Cathy, displaying human like behaviour as she does it without thinking intrinsically
The problem, as I see is that you’ve been told, and not told
Miss Lucy
Ghostly dead trunks /The weak sun /the tree trunks, hollow and emaciated
Semantic field of death and decay symbolic off the clones physical state
Beached under the marches / stranded
‘Like the boat, the clones exist in the liminal state, and not ordered, unable to get true, freedom
It had once been painted the sky blue, but now looked almost white
The imagery suggest depreciation of clones, hope to white its clinical and empty
She spun around, like a thrown something at her
My damn reuniting, with Tommy, still having that irrational fear of the clones
Road carved onto a cliff /Virtually suspended over the sea/once again near a cliff
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.
We could see hills in the distance that reminded us of Hailsham, but they seem to use oddly crooked
Cottages are similar to Halsham albeit as a distorted and less welcoming version
Like a dog doing a pee /mad animal
The clones dehumanising Tommy, perhaps due to them, internalising their own oppression. Animal imagery and derogatory language.
Were modelled from trash, junkies, prostitute, winos, tramps
Asynthetic Listing conveys Cathy‘s anger and pain → the clones liken themselves to the lowest of society mer are a produce of human waste ‘
There was a great big glass front at street level
I ironic, as it represents a life of freedom and humanity, the clones can see, but never truly achieve.
Cottages as ‘chilly’ /really cold /the rough ground frozen bone hard
Convey how the clones become exposed to the harness of the Real world, for the first time, juxtaposing, Hailsham and part one
The potted, palms, the shiny machines, and the swooping desk lamps
The listing represents the modern setting of the open plan office, contrasting the out of date cottages
He didn’t like to talk to us much
Keffers representing the societal view towards the clones
She saw and decided in the second what we were /she took her shoulders in tightly as she passed between us
Madame sees the clones as inhumane and other
The lost corner
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
Rubbish / torn plastic / bits of old carrier bags
The clones are used for a function and carelessly disreguarded, after their like of restriction (wires/fences)
