Themes and Quotes

Question 1

Duality

Answer 1

• ‘I have been doomed to such a dreadful shipwreck; that man is not truly one, but two’
• connotations of shipwreck: doom, destiny to fail/die?, death, calamity
• not truly one or two - split personalities, duality
• cinnotations of doomed. 2 personalties doomed to oppose each other ?
• ** It was the curse of mankind that these incongruous fagots were thus bound together - that in the agonised womb of consciousness, these polar twins should be continuosly struggling**
• curse - connotations, supernatural, evil, destiny, inescapable
• incongruous fagots - harsh consonants, harsh tone, brutal effects of duality, repetition of incongruous emphasis
• bound - destiny again
• agonised womb - juxtaposition between agonized and womb, agonized connotes pain, death even, whereas womb connotes life. this is imagery of pain that is born together and death causing.
• polar twin - repelling
• continuously - eternal struggle
• with something of a slyish cast perhaps, but every mark of capacity and kindness
• slyish - connotes deceit, treachery
• kindness connotes honesty, benign
• juxtaposition

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Question 2

Duality