Higher English The Cone Gatherers Duror

Question 0

In chapter 2, Duror gets a lift from doctor Matheson who explores the roots of Duror’s mind

Answer 0

“God knew how many inhibitions, repressions and complexes were twisting and coiling there, like the snakes of damnation”

Question 1

In chapter 1, Duror’s hatred for Calum and all deformities is shown to us through an extended metaphor

Answer 1

“The overspreading tree of revulsion in him”

Question 2

In chapter 6, Duror’s madness shows at the deer drive when he wants to attack Calum

Answer 2

“Duror seemed possessed by a fury to rise up and attack the hunchback”

Question 3

In chapter 6, his violence and madness is foreshadowed

Answer 3

“He seemed to be laughing in some kind of berserk joy. There was a knife in his hand.”

Question 4

In chapter 6, Duror makes the decision to not just get rid of Calum, but to make him suffer

Answer 4

“His going therefore must be a destruction, an agony, a crucifixion.”

Question 5

In chapter 9 Duror goes against doctor mathesons advice of endurance

Answer 5

“The result was a revulsion against the doctor’s reiterated philosophy of endurance…”

Question 6

In chapter nine Duror goes completely mad and evil

Answer 6

“He felt in a mood for murder, rape or suicide”

Question 7

In chapter 16, Duror kills himself after he kills Calum as he realises it has not helped him

Answer 7

“so infinite a desolation in his every step that it was this memory of him”