CH5-Deuteronomy

Question 1

What is the plot summary for Deuteronomy?

Answer 1

• An existential pause in the narrative
• Winterson places CH5 in the crux of the novel where J feels safe in her relationship with Melanie
• It is a philosophical reflection on truth and storytelling and how history over time is shaded by subjective perspectives

Question 2

What are the key methods within Deuteronomy?

Answer 2

-narrative digression
-metanarratives
-direct address
-semantic field of economics

Question 3

What themes and poems should we link to Deuteronomy?

Answer 3

History as subjective
-History
-Sub
-The Virgin’s Memo

Question 4

What are the key contextual notes for Deuteronomy?

Answer 4

• Post-modernism- post-modernist writers examine what actually makes a novel and diverge from the typical structure of one

*Concept of histography- study of history and our perceptions of history
*colonialism dictating a patriarchal version of history

Question 5

What is the link between Oranges and the Biblical Deuteronomy?

Answer 5

*Records the final events in Moses’ life
* Most of the basis for biblical law comes from Deuteronomy
* Deuteronomy signals the final moments of Jeanette a part of the church before she is excommunicated

Question 6

What is the purpose of the metanarrative?

Answer 6

• Winterson re-tells her story with her own agenda, connecting the constructed nature of history and the act of telling stories
• Is blind adherence to the Bible right, since it was too written by someone with an agenda?
• Meta-narrative is a narrative about the idea of creating a narrative

Question 7

“Time is a…
“but that is the way with stories; we…
“the curious are….
“we have to know what we are doing…
“a sandwich…

Answer 7

“Time is a great deadener”
“but that is the way with stories, we make them what we will”
“the curious are always in some danger”
“we have to know what we are doing, maintaining an order that doesn’t exist, to make a security that cannot exist”
“a sandwich laced with mustard of my own”

Question 8

History/truth is described as
“a cat’s…
“a hammock…
“ a _____ world between…
“the fishiest of…
“a lens that is…

Answer 8

“a cat’s cradle”
“a hammock for swinging”
“an oozing world between 2 boards and typeset”
“the fishiest of fish tales”
“a lens that can be tinted, tilted, smashed”

Question 9

What quotes support the method of: semantic field of economics?

Answer 9

“bright realm of the wallet”
“gold”