Six We Have Always Lived in the Castle Quotes That Mean More Thank You Think!
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Time Stamps
00:00 Intro
00:44 “What place would be better for us than this? Who wants us, outside? The world is full of terrible people.”
02:17 “perhaps they came in darkness not to be recognised, as if each of them wanted to hide from the others, and bringing us food was somehow a shameful thing to do in public.”
4:53 “... whatever planned to be colourful lost its heart quickly in the village.” “It was as though the people needed the ugliness of the village, and fed on it. The houses and the stores seemed to have been set up in contemptuous haste to provide shelter for the drab and the unpleasant.”
6:50 “I was pretending that I did not speak their language; on the moon we spoke a soft, liquid tongue, and sang in the starlight, looking down on the dead dried world.” “And we held each other in the dark hall and laughed, with the tears running down our cheeks and echoes of our laughter going up the ruined stairway to the sky.
'I am so happy,' Constance said at last, gasping. 'Merricat, I am so happy.'
'I told you that you would like it on the moon.”
8:45 “We want you and Mary Katherine to come to our house until we can decide what to do with you.”
10:46 “I wonder if I could eat a child if I had the chance.'
'I doubt if I could cook one,' said Constance.”
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I thought it was really interesting how when Merrikat killed the baby snakes she said it was because she hated snakes and Constance hadn't told her not to.
I've been trying to analyze the themes of class in the book, having just finished it. The constant references to living on the moon made me think of modern billionaires, who see us as the unwashed, hateful masses, and their attempts to colonize other planets to escape what they perceive to be a lost planet. Merricat also projects when she says the world is full of terrible people, another trait I see in the modern elite.
Great video, thanks!
Hey! I love this video and was looking at purchasing your study guide, and you know how there's a picture of a sample page where there's analysis for the "connie cup of tea" rhyme, does the book have one of these for each quote in the book? About how many would that be? thanks!
Hi! There are quote banks sorted out by ideas and multiple sections where the guide zooms in on an event or a quote and analyses in depth. However, there's not an analysis of every significant quote - maybe just five or six important events and quotes.
im sorry but this is the most surface level analysis ever. Why is he always asking "why is it" "why does this happen" mate your the teacher im asking you the same thing. you offer minimal input and basically just summarize the plot in a pretentious way to make yourself seem smarter. rubbish
Mate, literary analysis is something YOU do, not something others spoon feed you. Sounds like someone had an assignment due and came to youtube looking for answers...
Buddy he is just helping students generate ideas, if your too much of a degen to be able to facilitate some original thought maybe you should just do unscored. He is hardly pretentious or 'trying to sound smart', he literally puts it in very simple terms so simpletons like yourself can understand. Why hate on a guy who is trying to help VCE students for free?