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CRABBE, BROWNING AND WILDE Flashcards

1
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Effect of dramatic monologue in My Last Duchess

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Further way the Duke asserts his control

Lack of other voices distorts how we view the crime

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Cyclical structure in MLD significance ?

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Signifies the Duke’s continuation of power due to his status

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What is MLD written in?

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Iambic pentameter

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How does the Duke objectify the Duchess in MLD?

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‘my object’

She has no name

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Who was MLD based on?

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Renaissance Duke Alfonso and wife Lucrezia- however not named so feels universal

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How does the Duke assert his control in MLD?

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Controls physical setting
Curtain
Murder as the ultimate assertion of power
‘my object’

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Significance of the painting in MLD

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Values the painting, not her

Comments on artistry, not missing her

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Significance of the lack of violence in MLD

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Sinister, could reflect lack of remorse, or possibly the lack of attention paid to upper class crime

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‘My ____ __ _ ____ _______ year old name’

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‘My gift of a nine hundred year old name’

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What is the Duke’s motive in MLD?

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Jealousy, insecurity

These are universal emotions

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Lack of justice in MLD

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Comment on society- class? Patriarchy?

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What form is MLD?

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Dramatic monlogue

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MLD A03

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Marriage market

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Who is The Laboratory based on?

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Madame de Brinvilles

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Theme of gender in The Laboratory

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Uses her gender to her advantage- ‘take all my jewels’ ‘you may kiss me’

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What is The Laboratory written in?

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Anapestic tetrameter

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Effect of anapestic tetrameter in The Laboratory

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Staccato rhythm- reflects adrenaline

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Colourful language in ‘The Laboratory’

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‘gold oozings’, ‘exquisite blue’

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Significance of structure in The Laboratory

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We hear motive first- encourages sympathy

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Lack of remorse in The Laboratory

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‘and Pauline should have just thirty minutes to live!’

‘let death be felt’

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21
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Plosive language in The Laboratory

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‘brand, burn up, bite into its grace’

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Portrayal of victims in The Laboratory

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‘While they laugh, laugh at me’ - paints herself as the victim

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Why might Browning have excluded the physical act of murder in The Laboratory

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To encourage more sympathy for the speaker?

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Jealousy in The Laboratory

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‘she ensnared him’

‘as they whispered’

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A03 poison in 19C

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Fear of poison on the rise in French aristocracy

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Justification in Porphyria’s Lover

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‘I am quite sure that she felt no pain’

‘And yet God has not said a word!’

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27
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What was Porphyria (the disease) known as?

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The Royal Disease

Hair???

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Lack of speech in Porphyria’s Lover

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Distant passive- suggestive of psychosis?

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Dramatic monologue in Porphyria’s Lover

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Lack of speech- distant, passive

30
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Control in Porphyria’s Lover

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‘that moment she was mine, mine fair’

‘give herself to me forever’

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Significance of rhyme scheme in Porphyria’s Lover

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ABABB- regularity echoes calm, reasoning. Insight into the criminal?

32
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‘_____ in Porphyria’

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‘glided’

33
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Pathetic fallacy in Porphyria’s Lover

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‘sullen wind’
‘rain’
‘made the cheerless grate blaze up’

34
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Evidence of rationality in Porphyria’s Lover

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‘debated what to do’

35
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‘As a ____ ___ that holds _ ___’

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‘as a shut bud that holds a bee’

36
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‘little throat’

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Condescending, controlling tone

37
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What is the significance of the BORG being a ballad?

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Ballads traditionally depict suffering

38
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Zoomorphism in BORG

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‘herd of brutes’

‘they hanged him as a beast is hanged’

39
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‘A prison wall was around us both’

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Social commentary- groups all criminals together

40
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How long did Oscar Wilde spend in jail?

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2 years- gross indecency

41
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Transgression in the BORG

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‘the poor dead woman whom he loved’

‘scarlet coat’

42
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Description of the gaolers

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‘dread figures’

‘gloats’, ‘smirking pairs’

43
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‘There was no ____ at all’ (BORG)

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‘there was no grace at all’

44
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‘Stripped him of his _____ _______’ (BORG)

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‘stripped him of his canvas clothes’

Reduction of identity

45
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‘All men kill the thing that they love’

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Comment on varying degrees of courage

46
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Rhythm to describe the gaolers

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‘they glided past, they glided fast’

47
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PTSD in Peter Grimes

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‘cold, nervous tremblings’

48
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Complicy in Peter Grimes

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‘said calmly, Grimes is at his excersise’

49
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Hallucinations in Peter Grimes

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‘spirits’, ‘horrors’

Attempt to get pity, or actual remorse?

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Religious irony in Peter Grimes

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He now fears religion/damnation

51
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Evidence that Peter has no remorse

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‘selfish pity’

Oxymoronic- suggests he just wants redemption

52
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When was the Poor Relief Act?

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1601

53
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Where did George Crabbe grow up?

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Aldeburgh, Suffolk

54
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What collection was Peter Grimes a part of?

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The Borough

55
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Presentation of old Peter

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‘quiet Peter’
‘from care broke loose’
‘good old man’

56
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Presentation of young Peter

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‘cruel soul’
‘sought for prey’
‘horrid glee’

57
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‘horrid ____’

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‘horrid glee’

Oxymoron, sadistic

58
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Deviance in Peter Grimes

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‘impious rage’

59
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Pity created for Peter

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‘oppressed the soul with misery, grief and fear’

60
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Victims in Peter Grimes

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‘piteous orphans’

‘pinn’d, beaten, cold, pinch’d, threaten’d and abused’

61
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‘_____ orphans’

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‘piteous orphans’

62
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‘bricks of _____’

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‘bricks of shame’

63
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‘__________ torments’

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‘unremitted torments’

64
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Revenge in The Laboratory

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‘let death be felt’

‘brand, burn up, bite into its grace’

65
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Miscarriage of justice in BORG

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‘souls in pain’
‘man’s grim justice’
‘it slays the weak, it slays the strong’

66
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Identity loss in BORG

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‘they stripped him of his canvas clothes’
‘into his numbered tomb’
‘and his grave has got no name’

67
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‘into his _______ ____’

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‘into his numbered tomb’

68
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Indication that Peter is not remorseful

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‘selfish pity’

69
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Guilt/remorse in Peter Grimes

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‘tortured guilt’

70
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Significance of narration in TBORG

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Wilde is an eyeglass for the reader into prison life

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