Zusammenfassung der Ressource
Giuseppe by Roderick Ford
- Themes
- Collective Guilt
- Humanity's Dark Side
- Moral boundaries
- Pressure of war
- Fairy tales relating to the human world
- Who is Giuseppe?
- The Uncle of the Narrator
- The Aquarium keeper
- Contrasts and ambiguities (there are a lot of them!)
- People described
- Doctor
- A doctor should save lives but in this case allows the mermaids death
- Is NOT a vet, shows how the people present are aware she is more human than fish
- Priest
- "held one of her hands"
- Praying or holding her down?
- Fishmonger
- Represents the side which she is viewed as an animal
- Certain others
- Hints that people of a high authority are present
- Mermaid
- Is one big metaphor for an outsider or enemy that the troops face in war
- Language
- Deliberately flat and factual
- Only two adjectives and one similie used
- Who is the narrator?
- Gender is never mentioned
- However hints of being female
- The sympathy for the mermaid
- The use of the pronoun "they"
- Separates her views and theirs
- Would then be Giuseppe's niece
- What on earth is the poem about?
- The killing of the "only captive mermaid in the world"
- It is one large metaphor