Cultural Context (Leaving Cert English): Flashcards
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Time period setting of The Big Sleep
Time period setting of The Big Sleep
1930s America
Great Depression's effect on American Dream in novel
Great Depression's effect on American Dream in novel
American Dream had soured
Year Prohibition ended
Year Prohibition ended
1933
Legacy of Prohibition in novel
Legacy of Prohibition in novel
Bootlegging and criminal syndicates
Eddie Mars' role in novel
Eddie Mars' role in novel
Criminal elite/post-Prohibition underworld figure
How crime portrayed in The Big Sleep
How crime portrayed in The Big Sleep
Organised, professionalised, socially accepted
Police effectiveness in novel
Police effectiveness in novel
Ineffective and uninterested
Upper class moral state (e.g., Sternwoods)
Upper class moral state (e.g., Sternwoods)
Morally bankrupt
Vivian and Carmen's character archetype
Vivian and Carmen's character archetype
Femme fatales
Carmen's major crime
Carmen's major crime
Murder of Rusty Regan
Marlowe's detective archetype
Marlowe's detective archetype
Hard-boiled detective
Year The Big Sleep was written
Year The Big Sleep was written
1939
Literary tradition of The Big Sleep
Literary tradition of The Big Sleep
Hard-boiled detective tradition
Pulp magazine that popularised hard-boiled genre
Pulp magazine that popularised hard-boiled genre
Black Mask
Author who influenced Chandler
Author who influenced Chandler
Dashiell Hammett