Room- Observing The Lives Of Others Flashcards
Overall
-depicts everyday but emphasises of the small specific details which are almost overlooked and dismissed as mundane
-highlights the struggle and monotony that defines everyday existence
- using the ‘room’ as a symbol for the kinds of life lived by its inhabitant
-links with mr bleany where the transience of the occupants is epitomised by the list of the rooms contents
‘One chair to sit in, one second hand bed’
-life has been stripped down to its bare essentials
-sense of loneliness and isolation, there is only one chair and its just to sit not relax
- use of singular objects creates baroness
-lexical set of nouns
‘A greasy suck’ ‘cool lightbulb’
-bleak adjectives that illustrate everyday reality where nothing extra ordinary happens
-every bleak detail is noticed
- sense of gritty working class life where life is hard during the thatcher years
Long stretch of “roofs of terraced houses”
-symbolising time dragging on
-visual repetition reflects the day to day repetition and struggle
-a sense of endless circadian routine
‘Waiting for a moth’
-hilights the passage of time waiting for something out of her everyday
-yet like a light is a trap for a moth this is also a trap for her
-waiting for change will not happen and this every day ordinary routine will continue
‘Gift-less moon’ ‘cat pissing on a wall”
-emphasising the setting as devoid of excitement
-captures the raw often unnoticed details of everyday ordinary life
“Cool lightbulbs”
-devoid of warmth- anticipation that’s never filled in her everyday
“Face takes of its glasses and stares again”
-longing for something beyond the confines of her ordinary life
Context
-thatcher years in 1980s
-England was filled with poverty and was depressing
- high unemployment
- the rich profiting of the poor
- Liverpool poets; caseura enjambment, alliteration
