Setting Flashcards
1
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Explore Hailsham as a setting
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- Illusion, meant to replicate & twist reality, unsettling
- isolation,
- Institution, surrounded by guardians, always under watch
2
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Explore Norfolk as a setting
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-Motifs, page 65, “Peaceful corner of England, rather nice. But its also something of a lost corner”,
loss is inevitable, but what is lost can be found again.
-loss physical, mental, material, Human
3
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Explore The Cottages as a setting
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4
Q
List all the (important) settings
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- Hailsham
- Cottages
- Norfolk
- Dover Recovery centre
- Kingsfield Recovery centre
- Madame/Miss Emily’s home
5
Q
Explore Madame/Miss Emily’s home as a setting
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6
Q
Explore the Recovery centres as settings
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7
Q
Why is the Novel set in contemporary England
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Not interested in creating a futuristic setting as is typical in science fiction, Ishiguro reinforces the realism in his novel by giving it a setting with which he is familiar.
