What is a theme?
A unifying idea repeated or developed throughout a work
A term for a minor plot strand
Another name for the setting
War is a theme which usually shows what?
Inspirational and exciting battles
How to kill people
The conflict between humans
Class struggle is another key theme in the novel. This is highlighted through the relationship between which two characters?
Sheila and her mother, Lady Runcie-Campbell
Calum and Duror
Neil and Lady Runcie-Campbell
‘The history of all hitherto existing society is the history of class struggle’. Karl Marx said this in his Communist Manifesto. What did he mean?
History classes are often very difficult
History concentrates too much on issues of class
History has always involved conflict between the different classes
Which class do Lady Runcie-Campbell and her children belong to?
The working class
The aristocratic upper class
The middle class
How is the theme of man’s positive relationship with nature revealed?
Through highlighting the violent war between animals that kill and eat each other during the deer drive
Through the way Duror treats his dogs
Through the way Calum is portrayed as being comfortable and content high up in the trees at one with nature
Religion is another theme apparent within the novel. How is this highlighted?
The continuous references made to who is good and evil
The continuous allusions to Calum as an angelic figure
Neil’s disbelief in heaven above
What does Mrs Lochie believe to be the cause of her daughter’s bedridden obesity?
A family curse
Punishment from God because Duror has committed many sins
A complication during childbirth
What is Duror’s opinion concerning people who are different in some way from ‘normal’ people?
He believes the same as Adolf Hitler - that all disabled people should be killed
He thinks they should be spied on at all times
He thinks they should be left in the woods to rot
What is the moral of the novel?
It is wrong to kill another human being
Love one another
The fight between Good and Evil is eternal