Quotes

• 'blood came one day to Isabelle'

  • links to when Stephen came to her - start of journey/relationship
  • significance of change
• 'new life and liberation should manifest itself in colour of pain' (Isabelle)

  • juxtaposition
  • Love doesn't come without pain - foreshadows infertility (possibly) or the pain of losing Stephen
  • life away from a loveless home
  • 'new life' - child of her own
  • 'liberation' - freedom (right to votes)
• ''pulse''


  Part 1: Stephens code word for Isabelle
• ''The brown petals of a formerly white rose fell away''

  
Part1: Allusion

  • Isabelle is renewed by Stephen - when they cut roses together
• ''Vegetable fertility of death''

  Part1: Oxymoron

  • Stephens philosophical foresight - the water gardens foreshadow the later War destruction & death (seeing death in nature)
• ''He was a boy, he was the dearest boy''


  Part1:Superlative

  • After their first sexual encounter
  • Isabelles maternal view
• ''Her answer was hissed between closed teeth''

  Part 1: Isabelle is torn between her role and love

  • She is reluctant to leave with Stephen
• ''Bitch...Your father told me and I never listened''

  Part1 : Azaires reaction to the affair

  • using a derogatory term and general patriarchal view
• "He was trying to help a trapped bird out of a window" 1.5

  • early reference to birds, constant theme in the novel.
  • 'bird' symbolic of freedom yet they're trapped.
  • This foreshadows soldiers being trapped with horrors of war and also Stephen want to escape the war.
  • The character's decision to help the trapped bird provides insight into their personality as having a sense of empathy, kindness