We Have Always Lived In The Castle Quotes And Themes Flashcards
‘be kinder to Uncle Julian’
Merricat’s continuous self-reminders
‘you should have let me take you to the moon’
Merricat. Allusion to lunar
‘I can fly him to the moon’
Merricat about Julian. guilt.
‘they sent letters’
Constance’s poor treatment by the villagers
‘you have done penance long enough’
Helen Clarke with a sympathetic view of Constance
‘I used to go up…with a tray of food’
Constance’s kind actions towards Merricat leave her living due to her kindness and loyalty.
‘listen to me scolding you; how silly I am’
Constance and her inability to punish Merricat
‘they need help’
Dr Levy after the house burned down
‘Please answer me’
Helen Clarke to the girls after the house burned down
‘I wish she’d hurry[Helen]’
Merricat to Constance about Helen Clarke
‘In the village, the men stayed young and did the gossiping… the women aged with grey weariness’
demonstrates the drudgery and monotony of domestic lives.
[Stella] was the only one who managed to keep hold of any colour at all.
Merricat
‘I am living on the moon’
Merricat
‘things on the moon were very bright’
Merricat
[Constance] even at the worst times was pink and white and golden.
Merricat
‘whatever planned to be colourful lost its heart quickly in the village’
Merricat about Villagers
‘it was as though the people needed the ugliness of the village, and fed on it’
The villager’s homes represent their behaviour towards the Blackwoods.
‘I don’t remember the Blackwoods associating with the villagers’
Helen Clarke to Merricat
‘what place would be better for us than this? Who wants us outside
Shows the ‘castle’ that the Blackwood home is and the safety they find in isolation.
‘When Jim Donnel has something to say he says it as often and in as many ways as possible’
Jackson’s portrayal of the villagers as rude, fearful, unimaginative, and drab through Mary Katherine’s encounters with the villagers
‘We should have been living like other people’
Constance on societal norms
the books and the flowers and the spoons”
This is an example of a polysyndeton + femininity
