Tutorial 5 Chapter Analyses

Passage Three: pp 66 – 69 (Chapter 21)

Read from ‘Toby looked at Fay as she entered the room…’ to ‘… a tiny sprig of orange blossom’.

- Toby wishes to go back to look at his atlas – the oceans he describes represent the vastness
of ‘that world’ the world he wishes to return to, which has much to explore.
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- Significance of the brand = the long lasting effect and hold that capitalism and labour has on
individuals – forever being tied to working for profit and following it as the sole purpose of
life. Toby sees this ‘brand’ as real – an imprisonment in capitalism as strong and as damaging
as an actual neck strap – physically constrained – working like a dog.
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- Fay’s characterization: feels sorry for Toby – except Frame uses her obsession with domestic
materialistic things such as baking & her wedding presents to reveal how boring and
materialistic her life is, and how the most interesting things in her life are objects & her
assumed role as the wife and cook – forced to conform to things that don’t align with her
personality but she must uptake these roles anyway – like with Albert’s career.
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- Juxtaposition between the vastness of Toby’s inner world and the materialistic, confined
nature of Fay’s reality

Passage Four: pp. 125 – 127 (Chapter 34)

Read: the chapter (it’s short)

Questions:

 What do you notice about p.o.v in this passage?

 What do you notice about the style and diction of this passage? Why all that figurative
language?

 What motifs are apparent in this passage, and what is their effect?

 What romantic elements are apparent in this passage, and what is their effect?

 Can you find evidence of a critique of the world outside the asylum in the language of this
passage? What is the nature of this critique?