Key Events
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- Created on: 19-04-14 14:35
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- Key Events
- Tennyson
- The Lady of Shalott
- Lancelot's arrival
- Acts as catalyst
- 'The sun came dazzling thro' the leaves / And flamed upon the brazen greaves / Of bold Sir Lancelot'
- Images of light, he is meant to bring her warmth - positive etc
- Pathetic fallacy
- Powerful first introduction
- Images of light, he is meant to bring her warmth - positive etc
- Her decision to leave the tower
- She left the web, she left the loom, / She made three paces thro' the room, / She saw the water lily bloom'
- Structure + form, repetition, fast paced, punctuation
- Repeated refrains suggest her actions are disjointed/ anxious
- Structure + form, repetition, fast paced, punctuation
- Causes her death - dramatic
- She left the web, she left the loom, / She made three paces thro' the room, / She saw the water lily bloom'
- Lancelot's arrival
- Godiva
- When she decides to ride through town
- 'Unclasp'd the wedded eagles of her belt /The grim Earl's gift'
- Breaking free from constraints, control over her sexuality - restrictive
- 'She rode forth, clothed on with chastity / The deep air listen'd round her as she rode,/ And all the low wind hardly breathed for fear'
- Emphasis that her actions are right + honorable
- Even intangible elements fear/respect her - pathetic fallacy
- Key moments as this is when she does something heroic + awe inspiring
- 'Unclasp'd the wedded eagles of her belt /The grim Earl's gift'
- When she decides to ride through town
- The Lady of Shalott
- Frost
- "Out, Out-"
- The moment when the boy's hand is cut off
- 'Neither refused the meeting.' 'Holding up the hand / half in appeal, but half as if to keep/ the life from spilling'
- Almost inevitable, nothing saw or boy could have done to change the outcome
- No one could help him, he was already dying
- Key event as used by F to demonstrate brevity of life, tragic story
- Waste of life
- 'Neither refused the meeting.' 'Holding up the hand / half in appeal, but half as if to keep/ the life from spilling'
- The moment when the boy's hand is cut off
- A Considerable Speck
- When the speaker hesitates before killing the mite
- 'To stop it with a period of ink/ When something strange made me think.../ unmistakably a living mite'
- The pause taken is immensely significant because the speaker is thinking about life in all forms
- This is the moment that causes him to question himself
- Anthropomorphism
- The pause taken is immensely significant because the speaker is thinking about life in all forms
- Also tries to persuade the reader - persuasive language
- 'To stop it with a period of ink/ When something strange made me think.../ unmistakably a living mite'
- When the speaker hesitates before killing the mite
- "Out, Out-"
- Enduring Love
- The balloon accident
- 'A mighty fist socked the balloon in two rapid blows, one-two, the second more vicious than the first'
- Presents the idea that the balloon accident could not be explained - an act of nature - key event in establishing blame
- 'I didn't know, nor have I ever discovered who let go first. I'm not prepared to accept that it was me'
- Key event that hints to the reader why Joe is writing this book - guilt
- Sets up events in the rest of the book
- Key event that hints to the reader why Joe is writing this book - guilt
- 'A mighty fist socked the balloon in two rapid blows, one-two, the second more vicious than the first'
- The restaurant shooting
- Arguably second most climactic event in novel
- 'The high-velocity impact forced a fine spray, a blood mist, across our table-cloth, our desserts, our hands, our sight.'
- Described with the same scientific, but gruesome language as the accident
- 'The high-velocity impact forced a fine spray, a blood mist, across our table-cloth, our desserts, our hands, our sight.'
- 'Or were these details I observed later, in the chaos, or in the time after the chaos?'
- Again uses foreshadowing to hint at future events
- Arguably second most climactic event in novel
- The balloon accident
- The Great Gatsby
- Myrtle's death
- Catalyst for future events
- 'before he could move from his door the business was over'
- Her fate, and possibly Gatsby's was already sealed, clinical
- 'mingled her thick dark blood with the dust'
- Grotesque imagery
- 'before he could move from his door the business was over'
- Catalyst for future events
- When Nick meets Gatsby
- Sets up the idea he = unreliable narrator
- Idolises Gatsby, although at first didn't really notice him
- 'He smiled understandingly - much more than understandingly... concentrated on you with an irresistible prejudice in your favour'
- Attributed him with exquisite, unbelievable qualities
- Sets up the idea he = unreliable narrator
- Myrtle's death
- Tennyson
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