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The Wasp Factory
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The Wasp Factory | |
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| The Wasp Factory | comment |
The Wasp Factory is a 1984 novel written by Iain Banks. It tells the story of Frank Cauldhame, your average sixteen year-old murdererous sociopath who lives with his highly secretive father on an isolated island in North East Scotland. Frank's daily routine consists of disturbing shamanistic rituals, which include brutal animal sacrifice, that he believes give him control over the island. In addition to this he has also murdered three members of his family.Frank's horrific and insular world is disrupted when he begins receiving calls from his older brother Eric who has escaped from his mental institution. As Frank begins to relate the circumstances which led to his brother's breakdown, he also begins to dig deeper into his father's secrets, leading to several deeply unpleasant revelations... | |
| The Wasp Factory | fetched |
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TwistEnding | |
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Twist Ending: Frank being a girl. | |
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Ax-Crazy | |
| The Wasp Factory / int_2d4fa515 | comment |
Ax-Crazy: Our beloved narrator. In a big way. Bombs, fires, catapulting weapons at victims, catapulting victims at weapons, snakes, kites... about the only thing he doesn't use is an axe. | |
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Tomato in the Mirror | |
| The Wasp Factory / int_2f329e3c | comment |
Tomato in the Mirror: "My greatest enemies are Women and the Sea. These things I hate. Women because they are weak and stupid and live in the shadow of men and are nothing compared to them". Oh, Frank. If you only knew... | |
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Hair-Trigger Temper | |
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Hair-Trigger Temper: Fail to keep up with Eric's deranged trains of thought and he smashes up phone boxes and does unkind things to puppies. | |
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Meaningful Name | |
| The Wasp Factory / int_6bda9a30 | comment |
Meaningful Name: Frank's little brother was born in the same moment as their father killed their dog Old Saul, and the father named the baby Paul. The apostle Paul was named Saul before he converted to Christianity. | |
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Raised as the Opposite Gender | |
| The Wasp Factory / int_944a85ea | comment |
Raised as the Opposite Gender. The twist. Frank is really a girl. | |
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Enfant Terrible | |
| The Wasp Factory / int_a6123b72 | comment |
Enfant Terrible: Frank used to be one. | |
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ShoutOutToShakespeare | |
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Shoutout To Shakespeare: Eric: "To bed, to sleep, perchance to masturbate — aye there's the rub." | |
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Coming of Age Story | |
| The Wasp Factory / int_b1e8a3b3 | comment |
Coming-of-Age Story: A dark, horrific, and deeply warped one, but one nonetheless. | |
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| The Wasp Factory / int_bc74ef27 | type |
Berserk Button | |
| The Wasp Factory / int_bc74ef27 | comment |
Berserk Button: For Eric, pretty much anything involving dogs. | |
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Irony | |
| The Wasp Factory / int_c335b9ec | comment |
Irony: Frank is a misogynist who hates women. Frank was Raised as the Opposite Gender and is in fact a girl. | |
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| The Wasp Factory / int_c868a42a | type |
Freudian Excuse | |
| The Wasp Factory / int_c868a42a | comment |
Freudian Excuse: Frank's childhood accident. Subverted at the end. | |
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Creepy Monotone | |
| The Wasp Factory / int_e90a93b2 | comment |
Creepy Monotone: Deadpan, intellectual, not-supposed-to-be-ironic musings on the nature of democracy and its similarities to Frank's defunct conscience, squeezed in between unsentimental, matter-of-fact descriptions of being a seven-year-old serial killer? Definitely qualifies on this trope. | |
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Groin Attack | |
| The Wasp Factory / int_eaf5a1ac | comment |
Groin Attack: Very much Played for Drama in Frank's backstory. | |
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Insult Backfire | |
| The Wasp Factory / int_f6f2ff1 | comment |
Insult Backfire: A somewhat meta example. When the book was first published, The Irish Times' review of it called it "a work of unparalleled depravity." The paperback edition gleefully used this as a cover blurb. | |
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The following is a list of statements referring to the current page from other pages.
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Female Misogynist / int_b9cbde7f | |
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Raised as the Opposite Gender / int_b9cbde7f | |
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The All-Concealing "I" / int_b9cbde7f |
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