Stanza 1

Question 1

Analysis of “beloved Sweetheart bastard”

Answer 1

Oxymoronic minor sentance shows mix of love and hate

while revealing the focus of the speakers hatred

and emphasises the expletive and her

negative feelings are now the dominant ones

Question 2

Annalise “wished him dead prayed for it “

Answer 2

B and p sounds are angry

Prayed is a religious reference, usually we pray for good things but she prayed for her vengeful desires rather than healing or forgiveness

Question 3

Dark green pebbles

Answer 3

Green represents the jealousy she feels as her outlook on life has been tinted by the bitter emotions as her eyes are filled with hard emotions

as her eyes are compared to ‘pebbles’ and are as hard as a rock. She looks negative

Eye are a window to the soul

Question 4

Ropes… I could strangle with

Answer 4

Ropes are ruff and can cause friction burns, these ropes suggest havisham has been so consumed by loathing that it has effected her even into her elder days.

She is still so enraged that she wishes him dead

Question 5

E comment

Answer 5

In this stanza it is revealed the focus of the hatred and how her emotions are so powerful they have changed her physically giving the reader an insight to havisham state of mind