faustus Authorial choices: (4)
Mortality play structure, emphasises inedibility of moral outcomes
Chorus: guides interpretation for audience, frames Faustus as cautionary figure
Good/bad angle; externalise Faustus’s inner conflict and dramaticisms his consciousness
Comic scenes: undermines the tragic irony, enforces how Faustus wasted his power on small tricks
Authorial choices: Small island
Multi8ple narrators (Hortense, gilbert, queenie and Bernard), explores many perspectives and many truths, juxtaposes racial ignorance with lived truths
Nonlinear story structure, shows before and after war time as different and shows transformation
Works to explore truths about British society, resilience admits exclusion and changes the perspective of history
purple hibiscus Authorial choices:
1st person narrative; shows inner workings of Kambali and how trauma has shaped her understanding/thinking, slow emotional awakening mirrored through narrative style, mirrors psychological entrapment
Symbolism:
Purple hibiscus, show freedom
Breaking of figurines, breaking the illusion the family has
Silence shows the broken emotional states
Contesting locations;
Enugu is complete authoritarian control while Nsukka shows liberal, nurturing and intellectually open
Character contrasts:
Eugene vs aunty Ifeoma (they are siblings), conflicting models of authority
Enforce how freedom is possible, but costly, trauma lingers
comparison of Power & Control
Faustus seeks supernatural control → self-destruction.
Eugene exerts oppressive domestic power → family trauma.
British institutional power marginalises migrants in Small Island.
comparison of Voice & Agency
Faustus silences conscience → damns self.
Kambili finds voice → emotional liberation.
Levy gives narrative voice to historically silenced migrants.
comparison of Morality & Belief Systems
Faustus: theological moral framework.
Purple Hibiscus: religion as both shelter & violence.
Small Island: moral hypocrisy of Empire.
Mephostophilis quote 2
“all places shall be hell that is not heaven”
“Leave these frivolous demands which strike a terroir to my fainting soul”
Faustus: 2 quotes
“if we say we have no sin we deceive ourselves”
Faustus: “Ah my Christ…yet I will call on him, O spare me lucifer”
Gilbert quote 1
Tommy, tell me nah, where is Jamaica?” And hear him reply, “Well, dunno. Africa, ain’t it?”
Bernard quote
That bit taller you see
Hortense/queenie: quote
my coat…
My coat was clean, my gloves freshly washed…Mrs. Bligh stare on me …..
“I’m not worried about what busybodies say. I don’t mind being seen in the street with you.”
eugene quote
he was…
He was gracious, in the eager-to-please way that he always assumed with the religious, especially with the white religious.
kambali quotes
the tea…
kevin had
The tea was always too hot, always burned my tongue….it burned Papa’s love into me.
Kevin had many other chores to do for Papa, and I was not allowed to keep him waiting, so I always dashed out of my last class
list of authorial choices
Figurative Language: Choices in description, word choice (diction), and sensory details.
structure (linear , non linear)
literary devices (symbolism, imagery motifs
