Themes And Motifs Flashcards
Find 4 quotes for the theme of setting
“Everything is too much.. Too much green. The flowers too red”
“But there was no breeze, not a breath of fresh air”
“This is a very wild place”
“Look at this place, it’s enough to break your heart”
Find 3 quotes for theme of class
“They notice clothes, they know about money”
“Daniel was a very superior man… He lived like that white people”
“Go away white cockroach, go away, go away”
Find two quotes for the theme of identity
“We lost our way to England”
“The glass was between us”
Find 3 quotes for the theme of understanding/ignorance
“I wish I could tell them that out here it is not at all like the white people think it is”
“Live hear most of your life and know nothing about the people”
“You don’t like, or even recognise the good in them”
Find a quote for the theme of capitalism
“Then I heard a clock ticking and it was made of gold. Gold is the idol they worship”
Find a quote for isolation
“The glass was between us”
Find 4 quotes for the theme of identity
“The glass was between us”
“There was no looking glass and I don’t know what I am like now”
“We lost our way to England”
Explain this quote
“There is no looking glass and I don’t know what I am like now”
Rochester not only stripped Antoinette of her name, identity and culture but removed all mirrors from her prison
She has nothing which connects her to her former self and has no evidence of her own existence
Explain this quote
“I hated its beauty and magic I would never know… Above all I hated her, for she belonged to the magic and the loveliness”
Conceit for colonialism - Rochester represents the colonial empires
What he doesn’t understand he destroys, he replaces it with something familiar
He despises the fact that he doesn’t understand the Ireland’s secret or history - Antoinette is the embodiment of the Ireland, all of its wild nature and secrecy - he feels threatened that she is something he can never be or understand - in the Caribbean, he isn’t in control, so he takes Antoinette to England where he can exercise his dominion over her through her subordination and incarceration in the ‘mad woman’s attic’ which he constructed for her
