Key Conflicts and Relationships (VCE SSCE English): Flashcards
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Type of relationship between Merricat & Constance
Type of relationship between Merricat & Constance
Symbiotic codependence
What villagers maintain towards Blackwood sisters
What villagers maintain towards Blackwood sisters
Ritual hatred
Villagers' mocking rhyme about Merricat
Villagers' mocking rhyme about Merricat
Merricat said Connie would you like tea? Oh no you'll poison me
Merricat's view on the word 'normal'
Merricat's view on the word 'normal'
'Normal is the most dangerous word'
What Charles symbolically functions as
What Charles symbolically functions as
Double for dead father/patriarchal authority
Nature of sisters' bond based on
Nature of sisters' bond based on
Criminal complicity built on shared guilt
How Constance destroyed evidence
How Constance destroyed evidence
'I washed the sugar bowl'
What Uncle Julian represents
What Uncle Julian represents
Failed witness trapped in the past
Fire's paradoxical function
Fire's paradoxical function
Enables stasis/more complete isolation vs destroying it
What guilty food baskets after riot reveal
What guilty food baskets after riot reveal
Complicit dependence between villagers & sisters