Zusammenfassung der Ressource
BIRDSONG THEMES (2)
- Boundaries of human behaviour
- Faulks was intrigued that no one ever said
''...enough, we cannot go on and still call
ourselves human.''
- ''This is not a war, this is an
exploration of how far men can be
degraded.''p150
- '''It sounds strange, but we have degraded human life so far that we
must leave some space for dignity to grow again.''p282
- ''He was surprised at his own brutality; he assumed it was
caused by fear.'' p172
- ''It can't go on, can it? It just can't? p149
- Redemption
- ''If I am fighting on behalf of
anyone, I think it is for those who
have died.''p295
- ''...nothing was immoral or beyond redemption
all could be brought together, understood in the
long perspective of forgiveness.''p363
- ''There is a human need... if a child's world
is broken up by too much reality, that need
goes underground.''p193
- Love and Relationships
- ''...she was choking with passion.'' p58
- '''...he had no wish to love any of these men
more than any other, knowing what lay in
store for them.''p345
- ''Your friendship enables me to survive.''
- ''Love is more important than the
flesh and blood facts of who gave
birth to whom..''p494
- ''...but no tears would come to expre ss his
desolation or his love for poormad
Weir.''p386
- ''...closeness of human contact, not
forced by mixity of wars, buprot given
willingly, from friendship.''p317
- Social Class
- ''...Shouldn't you be in your dugout
having a nice cup of tea?'p168
- ''Stephen had been
promoted from the ranks
because he had a better
education.''p145
- Innocence and Experience
- '''We are fighting for out country.''p293
- ''I can't do it, Wraysford...It's just a tiny bird. It's done nothing wrong.''p305
- ''He thought of the pity of the flesh gone back
underground without knowledge of another human
body.''p386
- Identity and Belonging
- ''I don't have parents'' p56
- ''It's because I don't value my life enough. I have no
sense of the scale of these sacrifices. I don't know
what anything is worth.''p164
- ''He felt more lonely than ever in his life before.''p385