english paper 2 - TSOTG

TSOTG IDENTITY / STORY / LEGEND

“She threw herself down, her white robe fluttering round her as she fell - like a singed moth”

“Great Achilles. Brilliant Achellis, shining Achilles, godlike Achilles … How epithets pile up. We never called him any of those things; we called him ‘the butcher’”

“That strip of shingle at the water’s edge which, as the tides swept across it, belonged sometimes to the sea and sometimes to the land was our [ahe and her brother’s] natural meeting ground. My brothers had become liminal in their very nature, since they belonged, now, neither with the living nor the dead. Which I felt was also true for me”

IDENTITY / POWER DYNAMIC / GENDER / TIME PERIOD

“Achilles was the hawk … I watched him like a mouse”

NARRATIVE VOICE / AUTHORIAL TECH / SETTING

‘\”it’s the soil … it gets into the wound … I have to confess that something about that pleased me, that it was the rich earth of Troy that was killing the invaders”

SOCIAL / CULTURE

“I think we were all, to some extent, using Patroclus’ death as a cover to mourn our own losses”