THE MURDER OF ROGER ACKROYD Flashcards
(43 cards)
‘_________ analysis’
‘merciless analysis’
‘________ power of ______ which _____ ____ ____ ____ __ __’
‘ruthless power of vision which struck fear into both of us’
‘as ____ __ _____’
‘as weak as water’
‘you should be an _________ __ _____, not a ______’
‘you should be an inventor by trade, not a doctor’
‘your ________ sister’
‘your charming sister’
‘______ of _________’ (nature vs nurture)
‘strain of weakness’
‘Caroline merely _________ __ ____ _________’
‘Caroline merely continued to look omniscient’
‘his _____ ______ is _______’
‘his moral fibre is blunted’
‘a ______, ______ thief’
‘a common, vulgar thief’
‘______ weakness’
‘innate weakness’
Quotation for lack of justice
‘I feel no pity for her’
Quotations for reputation
‘You were ruined forever’
‘Whose esteem she is anxious to retain’
‘I ______ Watson to his _______’
‘I played Watson to his Sherlock’
Quotations for Sheppard’s deceit
‘I played Watson to his Sherlock’
‘I paused a moment to choose my words carefully’
The Watson prototype
Christie manipulates this to trick her audience
Quotations to describe the police
‘weaselly countenance’
‘uncomprehendingly’
‘my death will be a grief to her, but grief passes’
Suggests that a stained reputation is forever?
Link between Christie and Sheppard
‘both she and Sheppard are engaged upon an excersise in duplicity’
Christie described as a ‘________ __ _______’
‘purveyor of puzzles’
Christie is a ‘______ ________’
‘puppet mistress’
Middle class in 1920s England- effect?
Collapse of middle class values/ identity Christie's novel looks back on these clear cut class structures- provides sense of comfort
Effect of war on Golden Age fiction
Restoration of order and triumph of good over evil provides a sense of comfort
Breakdown of gender polarity in TMORA
Poirot as a feminised character- takes care of his appearance
Does not dismiss Caroline’s methods
Human nature in TMORA
Bleak- every character holds secrets
