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Question 1

Thomas N. Coms - The Scrutiny

Answer 1

‘this poem articulate the pose of the careless Cavalier for whom love is nothing more than a game’

Question 2

Laura Jordan - La Belle Dame

Answer 2

keats ‘struggled to reconcile his boyish conception of women as goddesses with the mature notion of their realities’

Question 3

Oscar Wilde - Non Sum

Answer 3

‘a symbol of tragedy all that love is’

Question 4

Andy Haley - Remember

Answer 4

‘a work that might have arisen out of her health problems’

Question 5

Bloom - Gatsby

Answer 5

‘gatsby is in love with a moment of time that he persaudes himself to have shared with Daisy’

Question 6

Tyson - Gatsby

Answer 6

‘fitzgerald’s novel stands as a scathing critique of American Capitalist culture

Question 7

Gilbert and Gubar - Gatsby

Answer 7

Daisy is a male fantasy - idealised and controlled by Gatsby

Question 8

Lois Tyson - Gatsby

Answer 8

women in Gatsby are either commodifided or punished for exerting autonomy

Question 9

Amanda Boyd - The Flea

Answer 9

the poem doesn’t demean women the woman in the poem is as much as part of the conversation as the speaker

Question 10

Raymond Williams - Gatsby

Answer 10

the novel reveals the instability of class identity and the illusion of moving upwards

Question 11

Lionel Trilling - Gatsby

Answer 11

Gatsby is a tragic figure of the American Dream corrupted by capitalism

Question 12

Thomas Boyle - Gatsby

Answer 12

gatsby is caught between ego and superego - his ideal self clashes with reality