Context paper 1 Flashcards
Whoso list
Thomas Wyatt 1530s/40s
Henry VIII court, Anne Boleyn??
Objectification of women through courtly love
Based off of Petrarch poem 190
Reflects Patriarchal society
Sonnet 116
William Shakespeare - late 16th century
Sonnet form - Petrarch - 1590s started craze
Shakespeare organised differently
Beginning of Queen Elizabeth’s reign -
“Fair Youth Sonnets” - unnamed young man - Earl of Pembrooke or Southampton
The Flea
John donne - Metaphysical 1590s
Carpe Diem - ‘seize the day’
Promiscuous
“man about town”
A Song (absent from thee)
John Wilmot, Earl of Rochester - Restoration
1660-ish
Courtier of King Charles II,
“The best English Satirist” - Andrew Marvell
Nihilistic atheist
Satirical???
Remember
Christina Rosetti - 1842 (19 years old)
Victorian era
Financial difficulty - father ill
marriage issues - 3 lost marriages
used in eulogies, rise in popularity after Queen Victoria and late husband Albert mourning
Song (Ae fond kiss)
Robert Burns - 1790s
Agnes ‘Nancy’ McLehose - affair
Nancy left to Jamaica
can be sung
At an Inn
Thomas Hardy - Victorian society
Strict social barriers - men and woman drink together?????? - automatically a couple idk
Hardy against constraints
Hardy - autobiographical - Florence Henniker?
visited a hotel together - longing?
La Belle Dame sans Merci
John Keats - 1819
Georgian times - Romantic
Negative Capability - Not knowing how something ends is more powerful
Othello - Shakespeare
Written in 1603
Moved to london from Stratford upon Avon.
Renaissance period - Othello
Theatre became very popular - Elizabeth I
Draws on Greek and Roman classical writing - explored psychology of characters
developed language
Sources - Othello
Gli Hecatommithi - Cinthio
Didemona - Iago equivalent falls in love with her and spreads rumour that she cheated on him - he beats her to death with a sand-filled stocking - Desdemona’s relatives kill Othello equivalent
Source importance - Othello
Iago’s motive - ambiguity, more evil than Cinthio
own characters - Brabantio and Roderigo
we of authority - depth to characters
Othello - Setting
Venice - Venetian war was real
Republic government
diverse
‘edge of civilisation;
Race - Othello
intercultural encounters?
Very small minority of People of Colour
Audience - respect, fear, fascination
Women and Marriage - Othello
Patriarchal society - seen as possessions
Desdemona and sense of duty
Emilia - oppressed however exposes Iago and contradicts patriarchal society
Sexual freedom
F. Scott Fitzgerald - Gatsby
AUTOBIOGRAPHICAL KINDA
Joined army - fell in love with Zelda, wasn’t successful enough
alcoholism and hedonism
turbulent relationship
1925 - gathered fame
constantly argued about things
1930 - Zelda had nervous breakdown. couple ended relationship after 1932
Jazz Age - Gatsby
growth and prosperity - cynicism and corruption
Great depression in 1930s
First world war hit hard
old money vs new money mentality
Sexual freedom - Gatsby
youthful hedonism of 1920s
especially of women - able to vote 1920
started wearing more masculine clothes - Jordan
Myrtle vs Jordan differences
American Dream - Gatsby
‘Land of opportunity’ - regardless of social background
Irish migration to america after potato famine
Widespread materialism - Gatsby personfies american dream
Prohibition and Organised crime - Gatsby
alcohol was illegal at the time-
made crime higher as people were willing to commit crime
dangerous gangers ran streets
Mayer wolfsheim - symbolises gangsters, mentions ‘Rosy’ Rosenthal - shot by corrupt police
Race and Prejudice - Gatsby
1924 - immigration act, restricted Europeans, prevented Asians from entering country
Prejudice towards ethnic minorities - Woflsheim and Jewish populaltion
Also racist towards African-American couple - legitimate wealth.
