How we cite our quotes: (Chapter.Paragraph)
Quote #7
"It's the killer, not the whore, who must be stopped." (26.80)
The "whore" is Angélique Villiers, the General's treacherous wife. She married him so that she could spy on him for Carlos, who already killed the General's son. The General calls her a "whore" because she is using sex for gain. Most of the blame for this is placed squarely on Angélique, but we shouldn't forget that it's Carlos—the dude Lavier insists lives by a code of some kind of honor—who puts her up to it and gains from it. So who is worse: Angélique or Carlos? Or are they equally bad? Which one gets a worse rap in the novel?
Quote #8
"My whore was someone else's whore…the animal's whore. It could not be otherwise, and as I learned, it was not." (33.2)
Since Angélique was deceitful, she must, by this logic, also be sexually promiscuous. She's also referred to as "the animal's whore." The animal here is Carlos, but he's never referred to as an animal in any other context. Is it Angélique who makes him animalistic? Villiers seems to think so.
Quote #9
It was the bedroom wherein the master of the house had killed the mistress of the house, where a memory-ridden old soldier had choked the life out of an assassin's whore. (33.32)
There's lots of killing in The Bourne Identity, but this particular murder is probably the most visceral and the most enthusiastic. Even Bourne's murder of the rapist isn't discussed with nearly the same vindictive glee. Why does this particular murder get the most attention?