Character: The Hermit (Scottish Highers English): Quizzes
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How is the hermit presented to readers?
How is the hermit presented to readers?
Through narrator's external observations
What is significant about the hermit's silence?
What is significant about the hermit's silence?
It forces villagers to project fears
What does the hermit's observable behaviour reveal?
What does the hermit's observable behaviour reveal?
A self-sufficient lifestyle
What theory do villagers most prefer about the hermit?
What theory do villagers most prefer about the hermit?
He is a disappointed lover
Why is the hermit a 'disturbance' rather than a 'nuisance'?
Why is the hermit a 'disturbance' rather than a 'nuisance'?
He challenges assumptions about life
What does 'the very fact of his existence was a kind of insult' reveal?
What does 'the very fact of his existence was a kind of insult' reveal?
His offence is his mode of being
How does the hermit's silence function as power?
How does the hermit's silence function as power?
It denies villagers a way to categorise
How does the hermit function in the story?
How does the hermit function in the story?
As a catalyst triggering responses
What does the hermit's role as 'mirror' reveal?
What does the hermit's role as 'mirror' reveal?
Villagers' own repressed doubts
What does destroying the hut symbolise?
What does destroying the hut symbolise?
Desire to erase the idea he represents