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AO2 and AO4 in Isabella Flashcards

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The Wheel of Fortune/ Peripeteia

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  • imagery used to foreshadow and demonstrate the influence of the wheel of fortune
  • floral imagery – their love as a flower
  • semantic field of flowers – romantic and hopeful presentation of their love
  • foreboding – the natural progression of their intense relationship mirrors the natural life cycle of flowers (bloom, flourish, die)
  • pathetic fallacy – as the relationship progresses to its climax
  • the weather and seasons are seen to shift from winter to summer – Isabella and Lorenzo have reached the highest point of their love for one another
  • connotations and vivid imagery
  • with the introduction of Isabella’s brothers into the poem, it takes a true descent into tragedy
  • the introduction of tragic isolation and deception further reinforces the tragedy of their love
  • extreme catharsis by the end of the poem – hopeless ending
  • wheel of fortune highlighted – unable to reverse their fate once it has been set in motion
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The Moral Aspects of Tragedy

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Human Struggle in Tragedy

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The Treatment of Female Characters in Tragedy

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  • Isabella is our eponymous character
  • she is presented as a great victim
  • other characters treat her poorly, and with selfish intentions
  • viewed as almost sub-human by her brothers – see her as a potential; business transaction
  • Isabella’s misfortune and a large part of her suffering stems from her being a woman in a male dominated society – rigid constraints of the patriarchy act as an inescapable prison
  • to a modern reader, Isabella’s tragedy is worsened by the realisation that her life would never truly have been her own – her ending may have been as good as it gets for a woman in the 1800s
  • Isabella is presented as largely passive – she resigns herself to the stereotypically female role of nurturing and raising something to life
  • Isabella’s acceptance of her complete lack of power – her peripeteia
  • reader left feeling extreme pity for Isabella’s hopeless ending
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Social and Political Tragedy

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Tragic Heroes

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Villains

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Suffering

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Chaos

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Violence and Revenge

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Nature and the Supernatural

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Power and Control

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Tragedy Terms linking to Isabella

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  • tragic isolation
  • blindness
  • loss
  • suffering
  • cruelty
  • change of fortune
  • death
  • misery
  • emptiness
  • peripeteia
  • catharsis
  • tragic endings
  • pride/hubris
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