Alias Grace Dreams Interpretation
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Submitted by Laura101 on 06/30/2008 05:21 PM
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Alias Grace Dreams Interpretation
Dreams play a significant part in our lives. It is often difficult to interpret what certain dreams can mean, and how they play a part in our everyday mentality. In this novel, Alias Grace, Grace Marks has many dreams, each one, disturbing. One of these dreams, however, becomes a reoccurrence. The red, cloth peonies, the blood dripping off Nancy Montgomery's face, and the kerchief tied around her neck, are all images in this particular dream. Grace has a hard time understanding the significance of these images in her dream, and how they can either prove to work for her, or against her, in determining the guilt that underlies the novel.
The opening line in this novel speaks about the peonies growing up from the gravel. It talks of them growing but dying off quickly: "Then they burst and fall to the ground." (page 5). At the beginning of the novel, such graphic detail of the red peonies is expressed, and the way they are described resembles a murder. The way they burst and fall to the ground, and the colour of the petals is a dark red, like the colour of blood.
In a dream that she is recalling to Dr. Jordan, she talks of the red, cloth peonies being outside the asylum:
"I said they were red flowers, and quite large, with glossy leaves like a peony. But I did not say that they were made of cloth, nor did I say when I had seen them last; nor did I say that they were not a dream.
And where were they growing, said he.
Here, I said.
Here in this room? said he, looking very alert.
No, I said, outside in the yard, where we take our walks for exercise." (page 286).
Grace talks of the peonies growing outside the asylum, which could mean that she is taking the bad dreams with her wherever she goes. It is as if they are following her. The red peonies grew at Thomas Kinnear's, and that house did not bring out the best in Grace. Now she is at the asylum, where there are red peonies growing as well....
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