The Waves, Louis Flashcards
‘I will not submit to this aimless passing…’
Contextualise the quote. Which section?
‘I will not submit to this aimless passing… and the words that trail drearily without human meaning; I will reduce you to order’
Section 3
‘The time approaches when these soliloquies shall be shared…’
‘The time approaches when these soliloquies shall be shared… children, our lives have been gongs striking; clamour and boasting’
By referring to the soliloquy, Woolf is hinting that the structural make up of the novel resembles a play / theatrical, physical performance
- links to Kate Flint
‘Motor cars, vans, motor…’
What literary device is being used here?
‘Motor cars, vans, motor omnibuses; and again motor omnibuses, vans, motor cars’
Chiasmus
- when words or concepts are repeated in reverse order
‘People go on passing…’
‘People go on passing, they go on passing’
‘I will reduce you to order…’
‘I will reduce you to order and again, I will reduce you to order’
‘Now we march two by two’…
‘Now we march two by two’ said Louis, ‘orderly, professional, into the chapel… I like orderly progress’
‘Magnificence’ of some ‘medieval commander’
‘Magnificence’ of some ‘medieval commander’
Louis on Percival
- spoken as if nothing has changed in the schools 600 year tradition
‘Bernard spreads a rug and plays knuckle - bones…’
Contextualise the quote
‘Bernard spreads a rug and plays knuckle - bones. Neville reads. London crumbles. London heaves and surges. There is a bristling of chimneys and towers’
Louis, p.17
Beginning of section two, as Bernard, Louis and Neville wait for the train
‘If I shut my eyes…’
Contextualise the quote
Which section? What is happening?
‘If I shut my eyes… human history is defrauded of a moments vision’
A suggestion that history should be recorded through visualisation rather than written word
P.38, section 2 - Louis sits on the train making observations of things he sees through the window.
The group are all breaking up, ‘Bernard, Louis, Percival go to Cambridge or Oxford. I go vaguely, to make money vaguely’
‘Here is the essential rhythm…’
Contextualise the quote
‘Here is the essential rhythm… I watch it expand, contract and then expand again’
Section three, Louis observing the people at the restaurant he is dining at
He visualises the every day hustle and bustle of modern life to be messy and chaotic, everyday it expands and each night it contracts.
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‘I feel the rhythm of the…’
‘I feel the rhythm of the eating house. It is like a waltz tune’
Section 3
