The Wasp Factory

• • ‘Frank’s disgust towards women, on a social level, reflects the often violent reactions against feminism during the 80s’ Kersel 
• • ‘TWF blends the social and hierarchal context of violence and gender with traditional motifs’ Kersel 
• ‘Frank ironically repudiates religious ritual and myth by creating his own absurd rituals and treating them with religious solemnity. Pope
• • ‘TWF can be read as an allegory of what happens when sociopaths are allowed to wreak unbridled dominion over a small island’ The Royal Opera House 
• • ‘Britain was a land defined by owning things and buying things’ Sandbrook