Language Features, Symbols, and Motifs (VCE SSCE English): Flashcards

Childlike, incantatory quality with short, repetitive sentences

Repetition of words/phrases at beginning of successive clauses

Collapses past crimes into present, removes remorse/distance

Domesticates horror, allows Merricat to control reality

Fortified isolation from society, becomes Gothic ruin

Hidden malice in domestic space, female resistance to patriarchy

Ritual where physical actions create spiritual/protective effects

Guilty complicity and uncomfortable mutual dependence

Creates hypnotic stasis, makes time feel circular not linear

Familiar domestic spaces become uncanny and dangerous