This is a 7 page document providing key quotes from Dream House, both relating to theme and to each character. This document strips the quotes to their simplest form, making them easy to remember and extremely useful for literature essays. These quotes helped me score in the top 1% of English learn...
1. Quotes for the theme ‘Mist/Shadows/Lack of Clarity’
- EG: “In the morning, [when the mist will clear], he will work it out.”
2. Quotes for the theme ‘Race/Power’
- EG: “backward glances only crick the neck.”
3. Quotes for the theme ‘Reconciliation’
- EG: “they raise their hands and carry on.”
4. Quotes for the character Beauty
- EG: “‘Inyumba’ – the barren one”
5. Quotes for the character Bheki
- EG: “I do not like to look at the sea”
6. Quotes for the character John
- EG: “everything Richard was not.”
7. Quotes for the character Richard
- EG: “…as if humour is dangerous and by laughing he might suffocate.”
8. Quotes for the character Patricia
- EG: “She has never been one for tidying up.”
9. Quotes for the character Looksmart
- EG: “…like a performer for the stage.”
, MIST/ SHADOWS/LACK OF CLARITY
- “She draws back the curtains to reveal the mist.” – start and end
- The name “Ethunzini” means ‘in the shadows’
- “…war zone, in which men wander about in the mist like wounded soldiers, their
boots heavy with mud. … a nightmare zone.”
- “In the morning, [when the mist will clear], he will work it out.”
- “The whole of the Midlands is engulfed in cloud…”
- “impenetrable shadow… in mist which is impossible to comprehend.”
- “…it is still a dream, a world without colour or sharp edges [and] the mist only
gets thicker.”
- “Everything around her feels muted… drained”
- “Everything is lost in this rain, everything is lost.”
- “lies there as it did before”
- “The mist is slowly shifting. The sky will be clear by the time they are ready to
leave”
- “The sun is shining through the cloud when she climbs into the car,”
RACE/POWER
- “At the time, their world seemed to permit little else: it didn’t even allow them to
touch.”
- “At least – that is how she remembers it.”
- “backward glances only crick the neck.”
- “each new house was an effort not to forget the original house – or otherwise
each was an attempt to refresh it.”
- “The problem of what to do with the
- past would have to carry on in the future.”
- “Sometimes a crick in the neck is exactly what the doctor orders.”
- “The decision is never made for uBaas’s sake but for the sake of another thing:
the expectations of uMesis, or the protection of a job”
- “‘How easily you let yourself off the hook.’”
- “wasn’t like the rest of them – the natives”
- “her toy monkey, with a battery up its arse”
- “that white person’s look, blank and faintly beaming,” – Looksmart about Patricia
- “the numberless dispossessed…mimicking disability” – Looksmart
- “he is an intruder in his own land”
- “Nothing has changed. People like her are still sitting in their houses. People like
him are still looking in.” (Looksmart)
- “the car always gleamed in a way that excluded him”
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