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Flashcards by elleaspell, updated more than 1 year ago
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Created by elleaspell
over 11 years ago
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| Question | Answer |
| "All this had been planned and planted a century and a half ago so that, at about this date, it might have been seen in its maturity" | Lament for loss |
| "couched among the lime trees like a hind in the braken" | Personifcation and unity with nature and house |
| Hooper - "Very ornate, I'd call it. And a queer thing, there's a sort of R.C Church attached...I felt very awkward. More in your line than mine" | No interest in in religion or beauty as Charles sees it. Foreshadows Charles' conversion to Catholicism |
| Hooper - "Theres a frightful great fountain, too, in front of the steps, all rocks and sort of carved animals. You never saw such a thing." | Hooper is not drawn in my the magic of Brideshead |
| "I had been there before; I knew all about it." | Nostalgia and return in the narrative voice |
| "Here at the age of thirty-nine I began to be old" | Lament for loss. Golden Age of youth has passed |
| "Here my last love died" | Charles is bitter. Foreshadowing of decline in the novel |
| "It was as though someone had switched off the wireless...an immense silence followed" | Charles whole world was based at Brideshead |
| "full of a multitude of sweet and natural and long forgotten sounds" | Past Golden Age |
| "A conjuror's name of such ancient power, that, at its mere sound, the phantoms of those haunted late years began to take flight" | Brideshead is the ghost of Arcadia. Memories and nostalgia |
| "The rain had ceased but the clowds hung low and heavy overhead" | Pathetic Fallacy |
| "the rattle and chatter and whistling and catcalls, the zoo-noises of the battalion" | Animalistic and uncivilised noises of modern world. Foreign invasion on the landscape |
| "an exquisite manmade landscape" | Harmony between man and nature and aethetics |
| "A sequestered place, enclosed and embraced in a single, winding valley." | Sanctuary, embraced by nature |
| "still unravished" | Suggests that it will be ravished |
| "It was named the Bride" | Connotations of virginity and purity |
| "the oak grey and bare, the beech faintly dusted with green by the breaking buds" | A shadow of former beauty |
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