Themes (AQA A-Level English Literature A): Flashcards
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Tom Crick's idea: history, herstory, stories relationship
Tom Crick's idea: history, herstory, stories relationship
All essentially the same thing
Tom's repeated phrase about narrative importance
Tom's repeated phrase about narrative importance
Children, it's all in the telling
Metafictional technique in Waterland
Metafictional technique in Waterland
Text openly acknowledges it's a story being told
What waterwheel metaphor represents
What waterwheel metaphor represents
Cyclical movement vs linear progress in history
What eels symbolise in the novel
What eels symbolise in the novel
Nature's persistence & renewal; eternal cycles
Atkinson brewery fire significance
Atkinson brewery fire significance
Pivotal trauma; starts family decline
Gothic 'return of repressed' example
Gothic 'return of repressed' example
Freddie's corpse surfacing from water
Helen & Ernest Atkinson's relationship result
Helen & Ernest Atkinson's relationship result
Incestuous; produces Dick
Cause of Mary's sterility
Cause of Mary's sterility
Botched abortion
Lewis's Thatcherite view of history
Lewis's Thatcherite view of history
Calls it 'bunk'; dismisses it as irrelevant