A05-Critical Analysis Flashcards
Jeanette Winterson ‘To lose someone you love is…
‘To lose someone you love is to alter your life for ever. You don’t get over it because ‘it’ is the person you loved’
Jeanette Winterson on Elsie in ‘Why be happy when you can be normal?’
‘I wrote (Elsie) in because I really wished it had been that way. When you are a solitary child you find an imaginary friend. There was no Elsie’
Camila Mendez on Winnet
Winnet’s apprenticeship with the sorcerer in the magic arts allegorises Jeanette’s necessity to complete her own development in order to become an adult’
‘Experience cannot be explained or…
‘Experience cannot be explained or legitimised by a single overarching narrative’ Bruno Bettelheim
“It exposes the sanctity of family life…
“It exposes the sanctity of family life as something of a sham; it illustrates by example that what the Church calls love is actually psychosis and it dares to suggest that what makes life difficult for homosexuals is not their perversity but other people’s.” Winterson
‘the novel may be a story of self-liberation…
“the novel may be a story of self-liberation for a secular age, but it recalls a traditional sense that a person’s story is made significant by reference to the Bible.” John Mullan
The unfixed, complex nature of identity is shown by…
The unfixed, complex nature of identity is shown by the juxtaposition of the protagonist(S) past and present lives. (Jeanette) attempt(s) to suppress an element of their past which refuses to disappear, highlighted by the experimental structure of the texts. Katy Lee
‘Oranges is an ______ novel…
‘Oranges is an experimental novel: its interests are anti-linear’ Winterson
On spiral narrative
‘As a shape…
As a shape, the spiral is fluid allows for infinite movement’ Winterson
‘It exposes the sanctity of family life as…
‘It exposes the sanctity of family life as something of a sham; it illustrates by example what the church calls love is actually psychosis and it dares to suggest that what makes life difficult for homosexuals is not their perversity but other people’s’ Winterson
‘Books read us…
‘Books read us back to ourselves’ ‘Read yourself as fiction as well as a fact’ Winterson
‘What I want does exist if I dare to find it (in Oranges)
‘The Grail ends badly but not…
‘The Grail ends badly but not hopelessly. And I suppose that even tragedy at its most bleak contains an energetic core of hope, because as sepctators we realise that nothing has to end the way it does’ Winterson
