Zusammenfassung der Ressource
Brighton Rock
- Colleoni
- he has a lot of wealth
- 'Just a business man'
- Cosmopolitan= 'the one who knows the world'
- Interests are not criminal but just of the 'World'
- 'the World needs
young people with
energy'
- He brushes shoulders with the aristocracy
- He comments he: 'Likes things good'
- like a FATHERLY FIGURE to
Pinkie
- 'I like you, you're a promising youngster'
- he shows an approval of
Pinkie: 'My child' - makes
him look patron like
- BUT he does say to Pinkie
:'Nothing you might do to my men
could affect me, I've got 2 in
hospital now'.
- He has back street gangster origins
- when Pinkie asks who a woman was he replies: 'one of those foreign polonies'.
- In the Cosmopolitan
hotel his gangster
wealth is accepted
as an acceptable
currency
- His image as 'a man of
the World' is air brushed
with material props; fine
clothing, cologne and
valuable jewellery
- the violent extortionist
merges with the rich and
famous elite
- The Police Man
- The law have accepted
criminal activity in the world
they are not as powerful as
Colleoni
- The policeman advises Pinkie
- 'Clear out of Brighton' -he is no
match for Colleoni
- He tells Pinkie: ' I don't mind you
carving each other up in a quiet
way.... but when 2 mobs start
scraping people who matter may
get hurt'
- Wordsworth allusion (part 2 chapter2 end)
- ends with a paraphrase from the
poem: 'Intimations of Immortality'-
Wordsworth
- 'he trailed the clouds of his
own glory after him; hell lay
about him in his infancy'
- whereas in Wordsworth: 'the infant comes from
God to earth trailing clouds of glory behind from
heaven'
- Wordsworth believes in immortality of
the soul and that burth is the
separation from God
- but the older a child
becomes the more his
memories are replaced by
the WORLD!
- 'the prison House
- Contrastingly
the narrator
believes that
Pinkie comes
from hell!
- Hotel Cosmopolitan
- IRONY- as they enter the lift (C+P) the
narrator comments: 'rose angelically
towards peace'
- this is a reference towards them as a
vice and a possible' progress towards
peace'
- Suggesting that their lives &
evil acts do not bring them
peace
- the narrator has
created a setting of
worldly values -
money buys a place
in this world and
nobody cares about
the origins of wealth
- Colleoni= a violent extortionist / Pinkie= a murderer
- they feel at ease in this setting
- the narrators image
of them hints that
they are
disconnected
individuals
- the women who
accompany wealthy
patrons of the Hotel
are described as:
- 'small tinted creatures' -they are upper class women not 'polony/buers'
- BUT Pinkies reaction: ' a little bitch sniffed at him & talked to another little bitch on the seatee'