Full Fathom Five Flashcards
1
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Key points
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- Reference to Ariel’s song in ‘The Tempest’, in which Ferdinand is falsely told that his father Alonso is dead
- Deifies Otto Plath, likening him to Neptune/Poseidon
- Explores the powerful, even devastating effects that memories of her father have on her
2
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Key quotations
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- ‘A dragnet’
- ‘Whirlpools’
- ‘You may wind to root deep among knuckles, shin-bones, skulls’
- ‘I would breathe water’
