Harvest key chapters ad events Flashcards
(53 cards)
Quote about misplaced blame ch.1
‘I know who we should blame’
Women objectified in ch.1
‘Dipped his thumb in someone else’s pot’
Thirsk’s otherness ch.2
‘I count myself amongst those aliens’
‘I most miss greater places’
Xenophobia in ch.2
‘Why should we share with strangers?’
Incest ch. 2
Live in a ‘cousinry’
‘begun to sound and look the same’
Description of Beldam ch.2
‘She was fair game’
Idea of villagers as peaceful ch.2 vs contrast ch.3
‘We’re not a hurtful people’ vs
‘Hold the spitting woman to the ground and scissor her’
Description of the Pillory ch.3
‘Wooden cross’
‘It’s here that Master Kent conducts our marriages and baptisms’
‘Prayer rosaries’ and ‘love chains’ hung from it’
‘standing on the pillory was not a cruel punishment’
Quill’s reduction of the land ch.3
‘His mapping has reduced us to a web of lines. There’s no life in them’.
Emphasis on the village’s separation from the church ch.3
‘Thank heavens that we do not have a priest to witness it’.
Significance of Beldam’s name
‘Beldam, the sorceress. Belle Dame, the beautiful.’
Thirsk’s enjoyment of the punishment given to the Beldams ch.3
‘Enjoying what must be a further penalty for them’.
Thirsk’s otherness in ch.4
‘Just a visitor who’s stayed
Quill’s romanticised view of rural life ch.4
‘He is blind to all the knot and thorn of living here’.
Negative portrayal of rural life ch.4
‘It wants to leave us thin and sinewy’
‘It taxes us from dawn to dusk, and torments us at night’.
‘Defend ourselves against hunger’
Brutal descriptions of the dead Beldam ch.5
‘leg was so badly damaged’ ‘gnawed limb’
Who does Thirsk say he’s a spy for ch.5
Unsure: Him, his neighbours or for ‘the master himself’
Thirsk’s distain for hierarchy ch.5
‘How does the solemn custody of saddles make a man superior?’
Thirsk view on Cecily vs on Widow Gosse ch.6
‘Little thrush of a wife’ ‘comfort’
vs
‘I find her limited’ ‘lusty appetite’ ‘causes me shame’ ‘warts and lumps’
Who gets a lot of direct speech in Thirsk’s narrative? Why is this significant? ch.6
Jordan; Thirsk often recalls events without direct speech; direct speech used for Jordan may imply Thirsk views him as more important, reinforcing hierarchy. P.100
Thirsk ambiguity ch.6
‘I will skirt round the details’
Thirsk excluding himself from the community ch.7
‘If I’m not careful I’ll be put to work again’.
Villagers are ‘laughing’ at him.
Evidence of Thirsk taking responsibility- and significance of the use of ‘our’ ch.7
‘newcomers were punished unjustly because of our men’s deceit and silence’. -OUR in taking responsibility to deflect blame onto group rather than on himself individually.
Thirsk valued by Kent in ch.7
‘Master Kent is glad to have me at his side.’
‘He needs a ‘calming hand’’.
Direct speech
