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WSS Quotes Questions and Answers 2024
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WSS Quotes'So it was all over, the advance and retreat'- Rochester - answer-Symbolic of his seizing
of POWER
-Battle imagery, he is resentful/angry @ his father as if he has made him sell his soul in
asking him to marry this foreign woman, invites him to see his new wife as the devil.
-Like it's his duty
(About Amelie) 'A lovely little creature, but shy, spiteful, malignant... like much else in
this place'- Rochester - answer WOMEN, MISUNDERSTANING OF CULTURE
-Suspicious and hostile to everything, it's all too much, too different
-He feels superior, represents the white British colonial empire (and patriarchy)
-(Malignant) like a tum our, unpleasant, overwhelming in a bad way
'Nobody remembers now' (about Massacre the beach) - answer
MISUNDERSTANDING/FAILED COMMUNICATION
MEMORY
-Horrific context of recent history of slavery and Caribbean past that is too traumatic to
be recalled by the people
-Different to English culture, not like his way of life. Instead they don't dwell on the past
'Those hills would close in on you'- Rochester - answer-He finds the environment very
threatening
-Image for MISUNDERSTANDING
-Atmosphere is so stifling that he had a fever for three weeks
'A cock crowed loudly' - answer-Ideas of incipient betrayal
-Contextually, a reference to biblical story of Peter who was told by Christ before the
crusifiction that he would deny having known Jesus three times before the cock crows
that morning. Peter swore this wouldn't happen and then realised as the cock crowed
that morning that it did
-Like Antoinette, Peter's future was already written
'Looking up smiling she might have been any pretty English girl'- R - answer-Suggests
that is he wasn't so full of hatred he could have loved Antoinette, she does everything
she can to please him
-However this remark betrays the root of the problem, he is unable to accept the
CULTURAL DIFFERENCE.
'It's red in parts of England too'-R
'Oh England, England' - answer-Suggests the passion and suffering that will follow for
them both
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