CRIME CRITIC QUOTES

Mariner - morality

‘the moral aspect of the poem is most important as it allows for the readers to challenge their own morality.’ - LOWES

Mariner - the bird

‘This motiveless act of malignity, from an ecocritical point of view, seems to mean a betrayal of Nature… the bird signifies the One Life and the language of God.’ - ABASSI 2014

Mariner - colonialism

‘The Mmariner as a violator of nature is, also, the vioaltor of the ideology of racial difference that acts to maintain control over the colonized other.’ - ABASSI, 2014

Golden Age

‘subverts the ‘Golden Age,’ of crime tradition of a neat ending. Though the criminal is pursued, and finally eliminated from the story, the problem of evil still remains.’ - FERGUS PARNABY

product - Pinkie

‘Pinkie is a product of the dreariest Brighton slums.’ - J.M CORTZEE

Nelson Place

‘Nelson place may have contributed to the making of him, but fundamentally, Pinkie is a monster.’ - G.A Wilkes

mortal sin

‘I don’t think Pinkie was guilty of mortal sin, because his actions were not committed in defiance of God, but arose out of the conditions to which he had been born.’ - GREENE

Brighton Rock - Ida

‘Ida is the real villain of the piece.’ - GREENE

fiction

‘In an attempt to atone for her crime she turns to what induced her to cause the tragedy in the first place: fiction.’ - DAHLBACH

war

‘In the atrocious context of battle, Briony’s apparently motiveless crime is rendered almost insignificant.’ - GEOFF DYER