Who said?
I am full of feeling and passion and I am wedded to a dried cod.
Susannah
I've loved it because it has a scientist at the heart of it, a scientist where you usually find...
God
Isobel overhears the conversation in which Armstrong admits to Roget that he has deceived her.
Name the literary device.
Dramatic irony
Name of the painter of the original painting that the play is inspired by?
Joseph Wright of Derby
Susannah, Isobel, and Maria can each represent the bird in the painting. They are suffocated, oppressed, and controlled by men, indicative of the struggles of women living under patriarchal systems.
Feminism
Bridges!
Fenwick
I dream of your soft...
blue eyes
The history of this house is the history of radicalism and dissent and intellectual enquiry, and they're going to turn it into a tin of souvenir biscuits.
Name the literary device in this quotation.
metaphor
(house = tin of souvenir biscuits)
The Act of Parliament (1832) that wanted to make an end to body snatching for medical purposes.
The Anatomy Act
In the play, each character has a different viewpoint of what God is. To some, like Ellen, Kate, and Armstrong, God is the title for anyone who has the power to create or destroy (like a scientist) while others hold more traditional positions of God in terms of the decider of right and wrong; thus, the meaning of God becomes meaningless as the concept is so subjective.
Deconstruction
"Did you know the first time I saw it, I got an erection?"
Armstrong
But not for sheep, for sheep it's looking...
grim
"[Susannah sat there playing a game of patience]"
Symbolism (Extended Metaphor)
What historical movement does the play surround and focus on?
The enlightenment
Tom details how his issues with Ellen's research is that the rich and powerful will benefit it, creating a larger disparity between the classes. He wants her to consider the middle man-- the man who will suffer as technology strengthens his opposition: the rich.
Marxist
Some people are not meant to say anything of consequence. As in life, so in a play.
Harriet
"Everytime I slice open a body, it's like ..."
Discovering America
What punctuation mark does Stephenson use to highlight the disregard and ignorance that women face at the hands of men?
The Em Dash
The term Phil uses to refer to the commercialization of cultural heritage as it is taken over by corporations and the wealthy to exploit poor people?
Gentrification
Edward's early letters detail his distaste of the people of India in comparison to how known, great, British land. He utilizes several pejorative adjectives to paint them as low life, brainless, savages.
Post-Colonial
"I have been like a dormant volcano, ready to erupt"
Maria
Ethics should be left to ________ and __________
philosophers and priests
What literary term would you use to describe the way that certain characters are played by the same actor in the alternating timelines?
Double Casting
The two main characters in Harriet's play, symbolising the past and the future.
Britannia and the Shepherdess
Ellen is at a crossroads as she battles between her wants/needs and her morals. Kate fuels her desires to be rich, famous, and recognized scientist...at any cost while Tom plays her opposite and reminds her of what the ethical and moral consequences are.
Psychoanalysis