Setting and Atmosphere (VCE SSCE English): Flashcards

As living character embodying sisters' isolation & psychology

Horror emerging from familiar, everyday spaces & objects

Sanctuary for meals & crime scene where arsenic was mixed

Collective hostility through gossip, judgement & violence

Frozen time via repetitive routines creating hypnotic quality

Preserves isolation by creating more defensible castle space

Village hostility reflects pressure to conform, fear of difference

Her agoraphobia & anti-Semitism experience informed isolation themes

Blocked shortcut represents class division, fuels resentment

Human psychology (resentment, mob mentality), not supernatural