who is described as mousy. ‘’time watched victor day after day as a cat will catch a mouse’’ the simile used is vicious in the sense that it will soon catch victor for his
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Card 7
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Time is also depicted through the weather to be harsh and so fits in with the characterisation of the father. In which its interpretation could be that being depicted through weather. ‘’it was a frosty december victor was only eighteen’’, this could
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Language used to consider
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Card 9
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Religious hellish her smile set men aflame But her kisses were like the best champagne- simile Victors as dull as a wet afternoon- simile they actually juxtapose each other Repetition of door was just ajar- door is the only thing that stands between
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Nature and the sublime a bit of setting
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Mountains used to destroy the hubris they are used ironically as victor is ‘’tumbling down ‘ like his tears the mountains still stand high. Mountains are also a metaphor for his father who in return to victors despair is not ‘’pleased’’ with him.
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Personification of nature used by auden in order to punish victor for his transgression and links to the gothic setting related to its replies. ‘’the oxymoronrunning so deep and still’’
