Outer Dark quotations

Question 1

‘sun buckled’

‘black sun’

Answer 1

• DoJ
• sin
• bleak, suggests sun is weakened, light overpowered
• dystopian
• morally corrupt by man’s sin

Question 2

‘howls of outrage’

Answer 2

animalistic

Question 3

‘can I be cured’ Culla

Answer 3

• question implies uncertainy

- no hope bc sun doesn’t return

Question 4

‘she shook him from dark to dark’

Answer 4

• foreshadows lack of moral transgression
• obscurity, confusion
• dream to reality is a liminal point