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44 Cards in this Set
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Christie's education
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home schooled
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popular title for Christie
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Dutchess of Death
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Elizabeth II's title for Christie
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Dame Agatha
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number of works Christie wrote
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66 novels and 15 plays
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Sister's influence
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read to her every night
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aunt's influence
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Miss Marple is this person
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Tessa Neele
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the pseudonym Christie took to vanish mysteriously for several months; she was a character of one of her stories
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Max Mallowan
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Chritie's husband, she traveled to the Middle East with him where she set some of her stories
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Christie's writing style
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simple short sentences, brief paragraphs, simple prose to spring traps, intrusion of figurative speech, elements of thrillers, believed evil existed in everyone
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Christie's writing weaknesses
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2 dimensional characters, lack of psychological depth
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Christie's date of death
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Jan 12, 1976
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Caricatures
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from Dickens novels
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NY Times
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published the death of Poirot
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Setting
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King's Paddock, 1920, Fernly Park
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Contribution to psychological thriller
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broke mold, broke reader's trust
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characterize Poirot
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egg shaped head, foriegner, 5"4, neat attire, gallicism, named after leeks
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fourfold pattern of MORA
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1. pattern 2. puzzles 3. investigation 4. solution
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plot construction
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1. when the narrator is not the detective he is not expected to flounder
2. Deception by idea- don't expect the doctor because "noble" 3. Reader never suspects narrator |
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The Collector to Fowles
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love of nature, went to Greece (quest), dorset
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point of view in Collector
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divided narrative, diary, 1st person limited
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Tantalus
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myth. man who represents Clegg; man loved by Gods but jealous. Invites gods to his house and murders his son to feed to them. Gods find out. and puts him in Hades
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Temptest
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Shakespeare play where Fowles got Miranda and Clegg's name
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Collector's setting
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Sussex, London, 1960s
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Miranda Grey
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tragic hero, upper class, high education, blonde, grey eyed, twenty, avoids verbal improperness, past reflections, offers herself for release
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george paston
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mentor, imagined love
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Fredrick Clegg
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protagonist, anti-hero, oprhaned, begins and ends in psychic darkness, butterfly collector, exists in darkness, Tantalus
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Allusion
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Tantalus, tempest
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sources used in the COllector
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1. bluebeard's castle 2. london newspaper
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eupemisms in collector
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Miranda:
things from chemist- sanitary napkins time of month- period the other thing- sex Clegg: prisoner-guest death-to put out murder-the great beyond bikini-whatchermacallit |
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Collector's form
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A. speech of Clegg not in quotes B. CLegg's Fantasy
C. Actual ending |
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Collector's Fretag's pyramid
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Exposition
1. observes Miranda 2. wins football pool 3. buys house Rising Action 1. Kidnapping 2. Seduction and illness Climax Death Falling Action 1. Kidknapping 2. disposal of body Resolution Marian |
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How does Miranda try to seek release and how does it result?
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sex; result=death
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Collector's symbols
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basement
diary Miranda as a prize possession |
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Elements of a quester
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1. protagonist (anti-hero)
2. series of trials 3. Clegg- anti-quest 4. female encounter 5. inner understanding |
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Service of love
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le souirant-woos woman
le supplicant- recieves promise of love l'amourex- actual love l'amant- fully accepted into her graces |
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characteristics of feudalism
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nobilitity
tradesmen pesant farmers monks and nuns |
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Similarities to Arthurian legend
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- parents die
-orphaned -given to someone to raise -Iseult/Guinivere and unfaithfulness -love affair found by king -set in England |
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rapine
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plunder
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burgess
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freeman
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gage
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love
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senschal
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manager of Lord's sister
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philtre
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love potion
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chantry
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open chapel
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Doomsday Book
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to put geographical terms of land
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