We Have Always Lived In The Castle Quotes And Themes

Question 1

‘be kinder to Uncle Julian’

Answer 1

Merricat’s continuous self-reminders

Question 2

‘you should have let me take you to the moon’

Answer 2

Merricat. Allusion to lunar

Question 3

‘I can fly him to the moon’

Answer 3

Merricat about Julian. guilt.

Question 4

‘they sent letters’

Answer 4

Constance’s poor treatment by the villagers

Question 5

‘you have done penance long enough’

Answer 5

Helen Clarke with a sympathetic view of Constance

Question 6

‘I used to go up…with a tray of food’

Answer 6

Constance’s kind actions towards Merricat leave her living due to her kindness and loyalty.

Question 7

‘listen to me scolding you; how silly I am’

Answer 7

Constance and her inability to punish Merricat

Question 8

‘they need help’

Answer 8

Dr Levy after the house burned down

Question 9

‘Please answer me’

Answer 9

Helen Clarke to the girls after the house burned down

Question 10

‘I wish she’d hurry[Helen]’

Answer 10

Merricat to Constance about Helen Clarke

Question 11

‘In the village, the men stayed young and did the gossiping… the women aged with grey weariness’

Answer 11

demonstrates the drudgery and monotony of domestic lives.

Question 12

[Stella] was the only one who managed to keep hold of any colour at all.

Answer 12

Merricat

Question 13

‘I am living on the moon’

Answer 13

Merricat

Question 14

‘things on the moon were very bright’

Answer 14

Merricat

Question 15

[Constance] even at the worst times was pink and white and golden.

Answer 15

Merricat

Question 16

‘whatever planned to be colourful lost its heart quickly in the village’

Answer 16

Merricat about Villagers

Question 17

‘it was as though the people needed the ugliness of the village, and fed on it’

Answer 17

The villager’s homes represent their behaviour towards the Blackwoods.

Question 18

‘I don’t remember the Blackwoods associating with the villagers’

Answer 18

Helen Clarke to Merricat

Question 19

‘what place would be better for us than this? Who wants us outside

Answer 19

Shows the ‘castle’ that the Blackwood home is and the safety they find in isolation.

Question 20

‘When Jim Donnel has something to say he says it as often and in as many ways as possible’

Answer 20

Jackson’s portrayal of the villagers as rude, fearful, unimaginative, and drab through Mary Katherine’s encounters with the villagers

Question 21

‘We should have been living like other people’

Answer 21

Constance on societal norms

Question 22

the books and the flowers and the spoons”

Answer 22

This is an example of a polysyndeton + femininity