Y13 SCHOLAR QUOTES Flashcards
H.O.T.D.C.T.D by Margaret Atwood
rows of heads
and upturned eyes, imploring
but ready to snap at my ankles,
Little Red Cap by Carol Ann Duffy
I took an axe to a willow to see how it wept. I took an axe to a salmon to see how it lept. I took an axe to the wolf as he slept
In the Artist Studio by Christina Rossetti
all her loveliness.
A queen in opal or in ruby dress, […]
A saint, an angel […]
Fair as the moon
Guys like Gaugin by Selina Marsh
the north, its head, full of rationality […] the south an erogenous zone, corporeal and sexual
Guys like Gaugin by Selina Marsh P2
Prepubescent buds
Helen –> women
the world is full of women who tell me i should be ashamed of myself
Helen –> componates
REDUCE ME TO COMPONENTS AS IN A CLOCK FACTORY
Cap –> childhood
At childhoods end
Cap –> bird
one bite, dead
Cap –> saw
I made quite sure me saw me
Artist –> face
he feeds upon her face by day and night
Artist - meaning
the same one meaning
Handmaids tale
We lived, as usual, by ignoring. Ignoring isn’t the same as ignorance, you have to work at it. Nothing changes instantly: in a gradually heating bathtub you’d be boiled to death before you knew it.
V for Vendetta flesh
Behind this mask there is more than just flesh. Beneath this mask there is an idea… and ideas are bulletproof.
James McTeigue
1984
War is peace/ freedom is slavery/ irgonary is strnehg - paradox
To kill a mockingbird
Atticus - Shoot all the bluejays you want, if you can hit ‘em, but remember it’s a sin to kill a mockingbird.
Frankenstein quote
i am solitary and abhorred
Pride and Prejudice
A person may be proud without being vain. Pride relates more to our opinion of ourselves, vanity to what we would have others think of us.
or
“I could easily forgive his pride, if he had not mortified mine.”
The Road Not Taken
Two roads divierged in a woods, and I/ I took the one less traveled by - enjambment
Still I rise
Just like hope spring high, still I ris
Half Hanged Mary
I was hanged for living along/ for having blue eyes and sunburn skin/ tattered skirts, few buttons, a weedy farm in my own name/ and a sure fire cure for warts/ oh yes? and breast - listing
Farhneit 451
If you dont want a man unhappy politically don’t give me two sides to a question to worry him, give him one, better yet give him none
The Lightning Theif
If my life is going to mean anything, I have to live it myself.” .
Harry Potter: Chamber of Secrets
“It is our choices, Harry, that show what we truly are, far more than our abilities”
Barbie
“It is literally impossible to be a woman.”
To kill a mockingbird
“I think there’s just one kind of folks. Folks.” - Scout
