Theme: Rejection of Difference (Scottish Highers English): Flashcards
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Central paradox of hermit's situation
Central paradox of hermit's situation
Harmless yet disturbing to villagers
Complete: hermit is 'in no sense a...'
Complete: hermit is 'in no sense a...'
nuisance' yet 'his existence was a disturbance'
Method of villagers' rejection
Method of villagers' rejection
Quiet social exclusion, not violence
Villagers' response to unexplained behaviour
Villagers' response to unexplained behaviour
Invent false stories to explain his choices
Evidence supporting villagers' stories
Evidence supporting villagers' stories
Not the slightest evidence
Villagers' emotion when hermit leaves
Villagers' emotion when hermit leaves
Relief - 'great weight lifted from shoulders'
Villagers' desire re: hermit's hut
Villagers' desire re: hermit's hut
Destroy it, forget him completely
Nature of the rejection
Nature of the rejection
One-sided - entirely from villagers
Effect of hermit's silence
Effect of hermit's silence
Intensifies hostility, denies explanation
Three stages of rejection
Three stages of rejection
Suspicion, exclusion, eventual erasure