Septimus Flashcards
Septimus after the death of Evans?
“congratulated himself upon feeling very little”
Septimus’ view of London
-“horror had come to the surface”- internal trauma becomes externalized, symptoms of repression
-the world “threatened to burst into flames”-hellish
Septimus cannot procreate
“one cannot bring children into a world like this”- loss of virility
Septimus’ view of the mundane London
“men were trapped in mines; women burnt alive”- mundane takes a traumatic visage
Septimus’ nihilism
“he felt nothing” (repeated)
Septimus and human nature
Septimus said “human nature had condemned him to death”
Septimus’ state of finding comfort in suicide
“there was a luxury in it, an isolation full of sublimity”
How does Septimus describe Holmes
with “red nostrils” and believes “the red nostrils have won”- zoomorphic
Septimus feeling forced to commit suicide
“He did not want to die, Life was good”
Septimus about Lucrezia
” a flowering tree” “ a miracle, a triumph”
Septimus as not in control of his manic episodes
when he returns to a manic episode “they had lost him!”
Septimus’ description of Holmes
believes Holmes is “making himself roar with laughter or rage”- Devilish
Septimus as woke
he “cried out that he knew the truth!”
Septimus’ belief in powers of authority
“they hunt in pack” “their packs sour the desert”- monosyllabic
Septimus seeing Evan
“It was Evans!”
