Sunset Song
Key:
Unfurrowed Field – Prgh elude/Epilude
Ploughing
Drilling
Seedtime
Harvest
THEMES
Change
Pg.27 - And serve them right, they’d little care for anybody, the dirt that rode in motors, folk said. • Motorcars are becoming more popular among the village, showing the change and move towards the future of technology. It also demonstrates the divide between social classes and the distrust and dispute between them.
Pg.31 - The groans of Nell, the old horse of the Guthrie’s, caught in a daft swither of the Highland steers and her belly ripped like a rotten swede with the stroke of a great horn. • The death of Nell shows a change from the old ways to the new ways – moving on from old farming techniques of using horse, to the new industrial and technologically advanced machinery.
Pg.37 - A motorcar spitting and barking like a tink dog in a distemper.
The introduction of motorcars shows change. The people fear cars, because they are new and unfamiliar machinery disrupting their quiet way of life. Just as progress interrupts the peaceful life of farmers and crofter. • • Pg.73 - The day of the crofter was fell near finished. • Shows that the time of crofting is nearing an end and machinery is taking over the traditional farming methods.
Pg. 86 – “Oh god, that’s Old Clytie”
In the fire of Peesie’s Knapp, another horse was brutally killed, symbolising the way that the people are forced to change and progress from the old ways to the new ways. • • Pg.114 - Nothing endured at all, nothing but the land she passed across. • Despite all the changes that occurred in Chris’ life, the land she lived and worked on was a constant that remained despite what happened.
Pg.126 - It was old Bob, he lay dead, his tongue hanging out, his legs doubled under him queerly, poor brute.
The death of another horse is such a brutal manner shows the drastic changes in society, like the introduction of machinery and cars. Symbolises the death of the traditional ways.
Pg.149 – “You
Unfurrowed Field – Prgh elude/Epilude
Ploughing
Drilling
Seedtime
Harvest
THEMES
Change
Pg.27 - And serve them right, they’d little care for anybody, the dirt that rode in motors, folk said. • Motorcars are becoming more popular among the village, showing the change and move towards the future of technology. It also demonstrates the divide between social classes and the distrust and dispute between them.
Pg.31 - The groans of Nell, the old horse of the Guthrie’s, caught in a daft swither of the Highland steers and her belly ripped like a rotten swede with the stroke of a great horn. • The death of Nell shows a change from the old ways to the new ways – moving on from old farming techniques of using horse, to the new industrial and technologically advanced machinery.
Pg.37 - A motorcar spitting and barking like a tink dog in a distemper.
The introduction of motorcars shows change. The people fear cars, because they are new and unfamiliar machinery disrupting their quiet way of life. Just as progress interrupts the peaceful life of farmers and crofter. • • Pg.73 - The day of the crofter was fell near finished. • Shows that the time of crofting is nearing an end and machinery is taking over the traditional farming methods.
Pg. 86 – “Oh god, that’s Old Clytie”
In the fire of Peesie’s Knapp, another horse was brutally killed, symbolising the way that the people are forced to change and progress from the old ways to the new ways. • • Pg.114 - Nothing endured at all, nothing but the land she passed across. • Despite all the changes that occurred in Chris’ life, the land she lived and worked on was a constant that remained despite what happened.
Pg.126 - It was old Bob, he lay dead, his tongue hanging out, his legs doubled under him queerly, poor brute.
The death of another horse is such a brutal manner shows the drastic changes in society, like the introduction of machinery and cars. Symbolises the death of the traditional ways.
Pg.149 – “You