no more ... than: No more than equates two people: she could no more stop than I could.
- Your aunt, Mrs. Venable... - Can no more help herself than I could.Suddenly, Last Summer · 1959 — 第 10 / 27 章 · 4'29" · B2
Catherine on Love as Use, Explained：to be used
Catherine tells the doctor that Sebastian used people and that this is what love is: "Isn't that what love is? Using people?" She describes her aunt giving up everything, letting her husband die alone, and says none of them ever had a choice. Then she begins her first memory.
あらすじ
In her hospital room, Catherine explains the Venables to Dr. Cukrowicz: Sebastian was 'a vocation, not a man,' and her Aunt Vi was completely hooked on him. She gave up everything, followed him to Tibet, and when her husband lay dying, chose to stay with Sebastian instead. Catherine calls it love as use, then recalls her earliest memory, a Mardi Gras ball.
注目の表現
vocationhookedgave up everythingtook vows
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このシーンの表現
to be used
meant to be used
Catherine adds that once Sebastian decided they were to be used, none of them had a choice.
She didn't want to be used by people she trusted.
このシーンの他の表現
- vocation
a calling
- hooked
addicted, captivated
- gave up everything
sacrificed all
- took vows
made religious vows
- let it go
drop it
このシーンのメモ一覧
70 行のセリフに 24 件のメモ
everyone loved
You see, we all loved Sebastian.a calling
Sebastian was a vocation, not a man.from the start
Poor Aunt Vi was hooked from the beginning.addicted, captivated — Casual; used for addictions, hobbies or people.
Poor Aunt Vi was hooked from the beginning.even him
Even her husband.to the extent of
...but dull to the point of genius.prepositional phrase: The phrase measures how far the dullness goes, all the way to genius.
...but dull to the point of genius.regard as terrible
What do you consider terrible?owing to
Aunt Vi let her husband die because of Sebastian.chose to
Once, Sebastian decided to give up the torments of this world...or anything like that
Lived in a hut, even took vows, or whatever women do.cause him to return
Anything to be near him, to get to him, to make him come home.had to see her
Mr. Venable was dying. He had to see her.had no choice
If you'd known Sebastian, you'd understand she had no choice...past unreal conditional: The past unreal conditional imagines knowing Sebastian, which the listener never did.
If you'd known Sebastian, you'd understand she had no choice...You'd reduces, and understand takes the stress.
If you'd known Sebastian, you'd understand she had no choice...time clause: Once plus the past perfect marks the moment after his decision was already made.
...how none of us ever had a choice, once Sebastian had decided we were...the nature of X
Isn't that what love is? Using people?Isn't that blurs into izn-that, with the t nearly dropped.
Isn't that what love is? Using people?too drunk to stand
I was taken there by some boy who got too drunk to stand.The t in got softens against too in fast speech.
I was taken there by some boy who got too drunk to stand.took hold of my arm
Then somebody took my arm and said: "I'll drive you home."crossed on foot
...walked through the wet grass toward the great misty oaks as if...「Catherine on Love as Use」を読み解く
What's really going on
Catherine's calm is the unsettling thing. She describes her aunt letting a husband die alone the way someone might describe the weather, and when the doctor flinches she explains the family logic: Sebastian 'was a vocation, not a man,' and everyone around him simply existed 'to be used.' Her line 'Isn't that what love is? Using people?' is the film's thesis stated out loud — love and hate as mirror images, one being used and the other being unable to use. She refuses to sound heartless even while describing terrible things, and the pity in her voice is for her aunt as much as for herself. The scene then pivots to her own first memory, the Mardi Gras ball, as if she can only approach her trauma sideways.
Theme
Family conflictCatherine exposes how Sebastian controlled the family, with her aunt choosing him over her dying husband.
PhilosophyThe scene argues that love and hate are both about using people, one the ability and one the failure.
このチャプターで学べること
- Catherine defines love as using people and hate as losing that power.
- Violet's devotion is shown as a total sacrifice.
- The ball memory starts with a lost coat check.
- Her calm tone makes the darkest facts sound ordinary.
発音のポイント
- you'd understand — You'd reduces, and understand takes the stress.
- Isn't that — Isn't that blurs into izn-that, with the t nearly dropped.
- got too drunk — The t in got softens against too in fast speech.
Sebastian was a vocation, not a man.Her definition of Sebastian: not a person to relate to but a calling people devoted themselves to, like a religion.
Isn't that what love is? Using people?The scene's central question: she suggests love is simply the ability to use people, and hate the inability.
She chose to let her husband die alone.The terrible act at the heart of the story: her aunt stayed with Sebastian instead of going to her dying husband.
It's as if my life began and ended that night.She says her life feels bounded by one night at the Mardi Gras ball, before which she remembers nothing.
このシーンについての質問
Why does Aunt Vi let her husband die alone?
She is with Sebastian in Tibet when word comes that her husband is dying and wants to see her. Instead of going home, she stays near Sebastian, so the man dies without her. Catherine says some people even thought she killed him.
Why does Catherine say Aunt Vi had no choice?
She believes Sebastian's hold over people was total. Her aunt gave up everything, followed him as far as Tibet and took vows just to be near him, so to Catherine it never felt like a free decision.
What is Catherine's first memory?
A Mardi Gras ball the previous spring, before which she remembers nothing. A boy took her there, she lost the check for her coat and decided to let it go, and a man she had never met offered to drive her home.
Why does Catherine think love is using people?
She says Sebastian treated everyone around him as something 'to be used,' and that hate is simply the inability to use someone. To her, being loved and being used come down to the same thing.
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次のチャプター · 第 11 章make a sceneCatherine Recalls the Mardi Gras Ball
第 1 章command performanceA Doctor, a Letter, and Money
第 2 章goddess from the machineMrs. Venable Meets Dr. Cukrowicz
第 3 章not unlikeMrs. Venable Shows the Garden
第 4 章mad as a hatterViolet Talks About Her Dead Son
第 5 章at one's wits' endViolet Describes Catherine's Madness
第 6 章in the image ofMrs. Venable Tells the Turtle Story
第 7 章my lips are sealedThe Hollys Come for Sebastian's Clothes
第 8 章inherit the earthMrs. Venable's Empty Chair
第 9 章bossed and bulliedThe Doctor Interviews Catherine
再生中 · 第 10 章to be usedCatherine on Love as Use
第 11 章make a sceneCatherine Recalls the Mardi Gras Ball
第 12 章burn upCatherine Relives the Burning Beach
第 13 章no strings attachedHockstader Shows Off the Million
第 14 章go through probateThe Hollys Visit Catherine
第 15 章go off your rockerCatherine Learns It's a Lobotomy
第 16 章all of a suddenCatherine Asks Where They'll Cut
第 17 章on the menuCatherine on Sebastian's Appetites
第 18 章taken a vowViolet Shows the Death Certificate
第 19 章objects for your pleasureCatherine Confronts Aunt Violet
第 20 章the other way aroundDoctor Fights to Delay the Surgery
第 21 章godforsakenMrs. Venable and the Sealed Coffin
第 22 章have to do withThe Doctor Hypnotizes Catherine
第 23 章third personCatherine Tells the True Story
第 24 章give someone awayViolet Explains the Spider's Web
第 25 章procureCatherine on Procuring for Sebastian
第 26 章fatal errorCatherine Recalls the Beach Children
第 27 章find a way outCatherine Tells How Sebastian Died第 10 / 27 章 · 残り約 53 分