semester 1 exam quotes Flashcards
what quotes represent the theme of marriage as an institution/business arrangement in IOBE
character of jack:
“I am Miss Cardew’s guardian, and she cannot marry without my consent until she comes of age.”
character of lady bracknell
“it is hardly a matter that she could be allowed to arrange for herself.”
“I am not in favour of long engagements. They give people the opportunity of finding out each other’s character before marriage, which I think is never advisable. “
what quotes represent the theme of the hyprocrisy of victorian society in IOBE
Character of lady bracknell:
“It could hardly be regarded as an assured basis for a recognised position in good society.” (referring to jack’s station heritage)
“He has nothing, but he looks everything. What more can one desire?”
Character of jack - bunburying
“when one is placed in the position of guardian, one has to adopt a very high moral tone on all subjects.”
“Ernest in town and Jack in the country.”
what quotes represent the theme of the shallowness of the victorian upper class in IOBE
character of gwendolen
“They have been eating muffins. That looks like repentance.”
“inspires absolute confidence”
“a music of its own
“In matters of grave importance, style, not sincerity is the vital thing.”
what quotes represent the theme of women as powerless and submissive in IOBE
character of jack:
“I am Miss Cardew’s guardian, and she cannot marry without my consent until she comes of age.”
character of lady bracknell:
“it is hardly a matter that she could be allowed to arrange for herself.”
how are particular themes conveyed through symbols in IOBE
Earnest/Ernest (pun) – hypocrisy of victorian upper class
“You look as if your name was Ernest. You are the most earnest-looking person I ever saw in my life.”
Double life – shallowness and hypocrisy of victorian upper class
“I have always suspected you of being a confirmed and secret Bunburyist.”
how does setting convey a particular theme
Two settings convey the hypocrisy of Victorian upper class as Jack tries to present himself as being righteous and having good morals yet has an elaborate deception of visiting two entirely different places to lead his double life in the pursuit of pleasure
City aka half moon street:
“The room is luxuriously and artistically furnished.”
Country:
“The garden, an old-fashioned one, full of roses.”
“Basket chairs, and a table covered with books, are set under a large yew-tree.”
what themes are present in IOBE
marriage as an institution
hypocrisy of victorian society
shallowness of victorian upper class
presentation of women as powerless and submissive
what themes are present in the yield
justice and inhumanity
dispossession of land and culture
continuing effects of colonialism
search for place and identity
what themes are revealed through conflict in the yield
mining company conflict:
“it’s not [their] land” (original quote: it’s not our land from elsie)
“From the five hundred acres where [their] people lived”
conveys themes of:
continuing effects of colonialism
dispossession of land
the yield shown through a postcolonial lens
how does the setting in the yield convey themes
represents marginalisation of indigenous culture, power imbalance, continuing effects.
“Minties; named after the white, sticky candy”
“houses [that] had doorbells and locked gates.”
“Vegemite Valley (…) where the blackfellas in the government housing lived”.
Doors are “left wide open on the houses”
how does the character of albert gondiwindi convey particular themes in the yield
convey themes of continuing effects. (shown through his need to reclaim his culture in dictionary)
“lost so many parts of the people that make [him] up”
they could no longer “hug each other and be affectionate like [he’d] want to be”
“I am writing because the spirits are urging me to remember, and because the town needs to know that I remember, they need to know now more than ever”.
how does the character of august gondiwindi convey particular themes in the yield
represents theme of disconnection from family and culture
“She couldn’t remember what she was to anyone before…it was as if she couldn’t remember herself the way she was supposed to be.”
represents theme of the unfair toughness of childhood because of her race, } continuing effects of colonialism
“At her parents home there wasn’t much edible to a child, only devon meat if they were lucky, white-bread loaves gone too fast, fruit that was too old and destined to be thrown away, and food-bank goods…”
“Having not known what it was to experience a terrible inheritance”
how does the character of reverend greenleaf convey particular themes in the yield
represents theme of injustice and inhumanity through rev greenleafs dialogue/diatribe
“mere children! – who have been forced into servitude because the Government wishes them to fill the gulf in the industrial labour force.”
“Yet this situation… was but an index to a ponderous volume of inequity existing throughout the interior.”
“Such helplessness, such woe, caused by Christian White Men!”
how is context revealed in the yield
revealed through character of reverend greenleafs dialogue
represents colonialist thinking of the time
“I opened Prosperous Lutheran Mission for the Native inhabitants of that particular cattle town, and its surrounds.”
“poor waifs and strays.”
“Imagine him trying to protect those ancestors at the same time as punishing them.”
