HSC - English Extension - Quotes

English Extension - North and South, Metropolis, Brave New World, Flowers for Algernon

Metropolis - Maria

“There can be no understanding between the hand and the head unless the heart acts as a mediator.“

Metropolis - Man at nightclub, about Robot Maria/Futura

“For her, all seven deadly sins!”

Metropolis

“MOLOCH”

Metropolis

“Garden of Eden”

“Tower of Babel“

North and South - Narrator about Elizabeth

“But the future must be met, however stern and iron it be. ”

North and South - Betty, to Elizabeth

“That’s my creed. It’s simple, and not far to fetch, nor hard to work.”

North and South - Narrator, about Maria

“Hoping for some brightness, either internal or external“

Brave New World - John the Savage, to Mustapha Mond

“But I don't want comfort. I want God, I want poetry, I want real danger, I want freedom, I want goodness. I want sin.”

Brave New World - Bernard, inner monologue

“I am I, and I wish I wasn’t”

Flowers for Algernon

“I am afraid. Not of life, or death, or nothingness, but of wasting it as if I had never been.”

Flowers for Algernon

“I don’t know what’s worse: to not know what you are and be happy, or to become what you’ve always wanted to be, and feel alone.”