Zusammenfassung der Ressource
Little Stranger: Chapter 3
- PARTY CONSCIOUSNESS
- Explores the idea that in order to see the true feelings of
your charcaters you need to put them in a stressful
situation > they reveal their true personality
- SETTING
- Breaking boundaries using the house
- PAGE 77 "The
thought of the hall
opened up to
strangers unsettled
me "
- Foreshadowing
- PAGE 80 "Bleeding
itself into the rapidly
darkening sky" >
pathetic fallacy >
typical technique
- PAGE 81 "The
staircase
ascended into the
shadows"
- Piano out of
tune -
metaphor
for the mood
- PAGE 93
- Sense of isolation
- PAGE 76 "The
family lived in
so isolated
and
precarious a
way"
- PAGE 81 -
Saloon
description
- PAGE 97-100 -
stereotypical use
of gore
- CHARACTER
- FARADAY
- Becomes more
obsessive with
Hundred's Hall
- PAGES
75-76
- "I looked forward to the
visits; they made such a
contrast with the rest of
my workaday existence"
- "small
adventurous
thrill" >
transgression
- PAGE 92 -The girl
drinking wine
and smoking =
transgression
- During the party, Faraday is
out of place > his mood
worsens + tension increases
> FARADAY'S MOOD LINKS TO
THE EVENT AT THE PARTY >
FARADAY CAUSED IT ?
- PAGE 80
- Prefers Caroline without
make up and not classily
dressed > shows he's
controlling?
- links to class?
- PAGE 86 -
Good for
class
differences
- Different
clothes - shows
old/new world
differences
- PAGE 87 + 87
- PAGE 95
Betty's
uniform
- PAGE 82
- The Little Stranger is Faraday's
repressed emotions - Links to
the gothic idea of the double,
similar the Harker in Dracula
- PAGE 96 "But I had
wished... I had
acted differently
- PAGE 79 shows age
and differences
between Caroline
and Faraday
- BETTY
- Her and Gyp notice
the supernatural
presence
- PAGE 83 "Everything's
jumpy in this house
- PAGE 87 -
Gyp barking
- SUPERNATURAL
- PAGE 89
"creeping chill
and dampness
in the air"