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There wouldn’t have been time but imagine if the showing of the #corrie episodes had allowed for each book they’ve referenced to be read during the storyline. So many classics I haven’t read yet like Great Expectations and Kipling’s ‘Kim’. #Swarla (Carla by the Book Club poster on 29th May 2024)

Combat(s)/The book Ken is rereading (I don’t like the Becky story and I really, really don’t like this aspect of it if these are connected)

When Roy was in prison he was reading this book. Lisa Swain’s middle name is….
Not sure about any wider significance but there’s likely to be one! 😂 #Swarla

Themes: Ophelia (Hamlet) often painted wearing long dress/ghost/madness/drowns), Rebecca(Becky) (white ball gown/psychological haunting/shooting made to look like suicide/water/fire) Great Expectations - Miss Havisham (ghostly presence/wedding dress/dies when it catches fire) #Swarla 2/2 #Swarla

The wedding dress reminded me of this (Toledo Museum of Art) - it’s of Hamlet’s Ophelia. Hughes also has a painting of Ophelia in the Manchester Art Gallery (up the road from Weatherfield.) 1/2 #Swarla

KIM of the Rudyard Kipling book and FALCONER in Blackwood’s, The Shakespeare Stealer are both spies, moving between identities and trying to infiltrate groups #Swarla 2/2

There’s another fake name 📚 reference that I only picked up tonight. I think Kim is a reference to the Rudyard Kipling novel. Lisa says ‘Kim’ as a throwaway while she’s holding a copy of the death certificate with Becky’s maiden name (Simon, fake name) Falconer (Bass) on it 1/2 #Swarla

Simon (fake name FALCONER) Bass (Fish reference) tries to steal the manuscript for.…HAMLET (of all the books 😂 - see previous posts) (‘Mr Jenkins’ on the post it - famous editor of Shakespeare, especially Hamlet) before Shakespeare can publish it 2/2 #Swarla

Spotted someone on Twitter saying Becky’s last name Falconer is dumb. In my view it’s brilliant… once you know it’s a reference to Gary Blackwood’s book The Shakespeare Stealer. (I’m blocked or I’d tell her) #Swarla 1/2

So, what happens to Miss Havisham?! She dies when her wedding dress catches fire. Another house fire, like in Du Maurier’s Rebecca (Becky) #Swarla 4/ends about the dresses

Pip’s describing Miss Havishams’s wedding dress. Dickens says she’s ‘the WITCH of the place.’ Also in the book is MagWITCH and at this point, despite the appalling Becky story, #Corrie should be given all the awards for the Easter eggs in #Swarla 3/a few

On the sketch-Bright White. In Great Expectations ‘She was dressed in rich materials—satins,..lace,..silks—all of white..she had a long white veil..’
Sketch - Cool Cream = a bit yellow? GE ‘Everything in my view which ought to be white, had been white long ago…was faded and yellow’
#Swarla 2/a few

People on Twitter saying the dresses were wrong. There’s a reason. The wedding dress designer Ella Enchanted (on the folio on the desk) is a ref to EstELLA in Great Expectations (and Enchanted is another magic/witch ref) #Swarla 1/a few about the dress

That book has other covers showing a hand grenade being thrown. Does the one showing the soldier’s left hand remind you of anything?
Ken tells Brody that Beevor’s masterpiece book is actually ‘Stalingrad’…about the horrific WW2 battle/siege. If this is foreshadowing it’s really heavy 😬 #Swarla 2/2

If you only watch #Swarla clips you miss stuff like this: Ken’s rereading ‘The battle for SPAIN’ and his version has this cover.
Just and aside, I hate the GIN bottle on the shelf (aka Mother’s Ruin) 1/2

Gah, ‘Nordic Interior Homes’ 📚 Hans Christian Anderson’s ‘Snow Queen’ ➡️ C. Lewis’s ‘The Lion, The WITCH and the Wardrobe.’ Remember when Carla said to Ryan that Lisa belongs in Narnia #Swarla

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Nordic Interior Homes 📚➡️
Strindberg’s Miss Julie? (set in a kitchen.) ➡️ Strindberg wrote The Red Room ➡️ In Brontë’s Jane Ayre Mason is stabbed and in the Red Room Jane sees Mr (Stephen?!) Reed’s ghost. ➡️ Brontë’s book may have inspired Du Maurier’s ‘Rebecca’ 😅 Tenuous but it works! 😂 #Swarla

Interested to see Fiona got a mention the other evening (phone call with Carl)

‘Nordic Interior Homes’ 📚 could cover Santa’s workshop in Lapland. Remember the emphasis placed on the Slade song playing in the factory last Christmas? #Swarla

To be fair, they did warn us! I wonder what ‘the end’ will be and what it is that gets brought down -‘Bring it on down’ 🤷‍♀️ #Swarla

Not sure an Easter Egg we’ve missed could explain all the weirdness of the Becky storyline 🤷‍♀️ The ‘Nordic Interior Houses’ could cover Tolkien but what in that explains Lisa and Betsy’s decision making 🤷‍♀️ Without a key to make sense of it, this Becky oddness is too weird to hold my attention #Swarla

‘Celestial’ and ?’Planet’ Another star/explosion reference? #Swarla
(If you want to know more about the Hamlet reference see earlier posts about ‘Nordic Interior Houses’ 📚

Frank Sinatra’s ‘Witchcraft’ in the background and Christina singing it too. Lyrics include:
‘Those fingers in my hair
that sly come hither stare
that strips my conscience bare
it's witchcraft And i've got no defense for it..’ 😬
(Roald Dahl’s The Witches ref too - see previous posts.) #Swarla

‘Oh, what’s this?’ asks Lisa.
DJC did a version of Robert Miles’ Children. Hardy and Phillips write about Discourse Analysis (how language is used to influence people) #Swarla Attention to Detail 🧐

Here we go! ‘Theo’ apparently means God’s Gift - a force for good in this redemption arc?🪜 ‘Some say that the age of chivalry is past, that the spirit of Romance Is Dead [Carla 😉]. The age of chivalry is never past, so long as there is a wrong left unredressed on earth’ Charles Kingsley
#Swarla

There’s a trap reference in each book. In Hamlet/The Witches a mouse trap and in Doll House a bird cage/the house/marriage/fraud and Nora’s life itself. There’s a Mrs Barlow in Agatha Christie’s play The Mousetrap. Well, her name is called but she’s left Monkswell Manor early #Swarla End

The Nordic Interior Design book is a brilliant key/clue. However its trouble because in Shakespeare’s Hamlet, Ibsen’s Doll House and Dhal’s The Witches by the end of each pretty much everyone is either dead, leaving or soon to die 😬 #Swarla 5/a few