Human Body

Question 1

Barthes, The Death of the Author, 1968

Answer 1

“The text is a tissue of quotations drawn from the innumerable centres of culture”

Question 2

Poor Things, Alasdair Gray, 1992

Answer 2

“For years I had been planning to take a discarded body and discarded brain from our social midden heap and unite them in a new life. I now did so, hence Bella.”

Question 3

Martin McDonagh, The Pillowman, 2003

Answer 3

Story - The Little Jesus: “they made her carry a heavy wooden cross round the sitting room a hundred times until her legs buckled and her shins broke and she could do nothing but stare at her little legs going the wrong way”

Question 4

Poor Things 2

Answer 4

“This absurd story about drownins and morgues and loss of memory has been cooked up… UNHAND ME WIFE, SIR!”

General Blessington

Question 5

Death of Author 2

Answer 5

“life never does more than imitate the book, and the book itself is only a tissue of signs, an imitation that is lost, infinitely deferred”

Question 6

Pillowman 2

Answer 6

“So, what, this is about stories with murdered children in? Do you think I’m trying to say, ‘Go out and murder children?’”