The collector

Q1

I love you, it’s driven me mad

Q1: 1

His interpretation is love, not unhealthy desire to possess

Q1: 2

Verb driven, victim to emotions, shift responsibility, implying love

Q2

I captured her and drove her off in the van to a remote house and there I kept her captive in a nice way

Q2: 1

Juxtaposition of captured and in a nice way, inability to recognize abuse

Q2: 2

Euphemistic language, transform imprisonment to act of care, desire for control corrupt understanding

Q3

He keeps me absolutely prisoner

Q3: 1

Directly contradicts perception of loving capture.

Q3: 2

Stark adjective “absolutely” emphasises F’s control & M’s perspective exposes coercion concealed

Q4

I know what I am to him, a butterfly he’s always wanted to catch

Q4: 1

Metaphor reduces, stripping individuality

Q4: 2

Verb catch particularly significant, not just admire but obtain ownership

Q5

anti-life, anti-art, anti-everything

Q5: 1

Repetition of prefix “anti”, collecting as destructive, remove living things from natural existence to possess

Q5: 2

F’s treatment mirrors collecting, admire both, seek destroy freedom to exist independently

Q6

He showed me one day what he called his killing-bottle. I’m imprisoned in it, fluttering against the glass

Q6: 1

Metaphor equates M to, fluttering atg convey attempts to escape

Q6: 2

Glass particularly significant, illusion freedom is obtainable and visible, simultaneously acting as barrier

Q7:

Power, it’s become so real

Q7: 1

Short fragmented sentence, foregrounds central conflict of relationship, abstract noun power emphasises M awareness

Q8

I hate you, I hate you

Q8: 1

Repetition enhances rejection, contrasts F’s belief

Q8: 2

Creates irony (F believe possessing M give relationship desire, that makes genuine affection impossible)

Q9

Living but dead

Q9: 1

F wants physically alive, but losing independence making her individual