Brighton rock
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Themes of danger? - ✔✔✔Showed from the start with: 'I'm going to die, I'm
scared'.
Setting in Brighton Rock? - ✔✔✔Holiday Brighton: 'early summer sun. the
holiday crowd.. Flower gardens in bloom'. Portrays a vibrant pleasure-seeking
town. Greene shows this sensual atmosphere as vapid and superficial, as people
desperately search for their 'grain of pleasure'
Pinkie seems to putting Rose in danger when telling her about a girl that go caught
up in a mob: 'spoilt her looks'. And then a 'little venom came out the boys lips'. To
then saying 'I'll be seeing, you we have things in common'
'One hand caressed the vitor
Palace Pier: Seems like a place of enjoyment due to shooting booths and slot
machines etc. However, Greene uses words that evoke an atmosphere of death
instead of amusement: 'dark-poison bottle green' 'faint and sad, borne away on the
wind'
, Snow's: Greene shows Brighton from different perspectives depending on the
character, at first we see the dreariness of Rose's life 'a wireless droned a
programme of weary music' but then to Ida it seems more elegant 'green painted
tables..daffodils'
Paradise Piece: 'houses which looked as if they had passed through an intensive
bombardment' 'flapping gutters and glassless windows' 'extreme poverty took him
back'
Cosmopolitan: 'the huge moneyed hotel lapped around him' 'he looked alien in this
room' guests had 'white fox fur'. Could this comment on secular society's morales?
Money buys a place and no one cares about the origins of that wealth e.g. Colleoini
a murdering gangster
Crimes such as the ones at the pier and the races, happen in very public places.
Playing on the readers fears?
Criminals - ✔✔✔Contrast between Pinkie and Colleoni: 'the little bitches on the
settee stopped talking as he passed' compared to Pinkie at the Cosmopolitan:
'everyone looked at him, he was ignored'
Colleoini tells Pinkie: 'you can't do me any harm'.
Colleoni seems to be in this life for the money: 'I'm just a business man'
Pinkie seems to be in crime due to his nature: 'poison ran through his veins' 'he was
ready for more deaths'
A detective tells Pinkie 'no one's going to fake you an alibi against Colleoni'
Best notes, question and verified answers
Themes of danger? - ✔✔✔Showed from the start with: 'I'm going to die, I'm
scared'.
Setting in Brighton Rock? - ✔✔✔Holiday Brighton: 'early summer sun. the
holiday crowd.. Flower gardens in bloom'. Portrays a vibrant pleasure-seeking
town. Greene shows this sensual atmosphere as vapid and superficial, as people
desperately search for their 'grain of pleasure'
Pinkie seems to putting Rose in danger when telling her about a girl that go caught
up in a mob: 'spoilt her looks'. And then a 'little venom came out the boys lips'. To
then saying 'I'll be seeing, you we have things in common'
'One hand caressed the vitor
Palace Pier: Seems like a place of enjoyment due to shooting booths and slot
machines etc. However, Greene uses words that evoke an atmosphere of death
instead of amusement: 'dark-poison bottle green' 'faint and sad, borne away on the
wind'
, Snow's: Greene shows Brighton from different perspectives depending on the
character, at first we see the dreariness of Rose's life 'a wireless droned a
programme of weary music' but then to Ida it seems more elegant 'green painted
tables..daffodils'
Paradise Piece: 'houses which looked as if they had passed through an intensive
bombardment' 'flapping gutters and glassless windows' 'extreme poverty took him
back'
Cosmopolitan: 'the huge moneyed hotel lapped around him' 'he looked alien in this
room' guests had 'white fox fur'. Could this comment on secular society's morales?
Money buys a place and no one cares about the origins of that wealth e.g. Colleoini
a murdering gangster
Crimes such as the ones at the pier and the races, happen in very public places.
Playing on the readers fears?
Criminals - ✔✔✔Contrast between Pinkie and Colleoni: 'the little bitches on the
settee stopped talking as he passed' compared to Pinkie at the Cosmopolitan:
'everyone looked at him, he was ignored'
Colleoini tells Pinkie: 'you can't do me any harm'.
Colleoni seems to be in this life for the money: 'I'm just a business man'
Pinkie seems to be in crime due to his nature: 'poison ran through his veins' 'he was
ready for more deaths'
A detective tells Pinkie 'no one's going to fake you an alibi against Colleoni'
