critical quotations Flashcards
1
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sacrifice
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- sandra gilbert: fruit is access to artistic world, women had to give up part of themselves to access male dominated sphere
- marian shalkhauser: goblins are sin and evil, laura are adam and eve, lizzie is christ
2
Q
societal expectations for women
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- john ruskin: “the woman’s power is for rule, not battle - and her intellect is not for invention or creation, but for sweet ordering, arrangement.”
- chodorow: “men are socially and psychologically reproduced by women” “but women are reproduced (or not) largely by themselves”
- ibsen: “I am not a member of the Woman’s Rights League”
- smallwood: “everyone in ibsen’s play suffers under the binding ties of patriarchy”
3
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desire
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- marian shalkhauser: goblins are sin and evil, laura is adam and eve, lizzie is christ
- martine watson brownley: goblins are male sexuality, laura is immature self-centred sexuality, lizzie is sexuality based on love and connection
- freud’s psychoanalytical theory: laura’s carnal instincts, goblins are sin and desire (gluttonous action of eating until it’s painful is also sinful –> desire for gratification and maximum pleasure)
- ronald gray: flirtation with dr. rank “hides a wilder nature beneath her demure obedience”
4
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the individual, freedom, and power dynamics
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- john ruskin: “the man’s power is active, progressive, defensive. he is eminently the doer, the creator’’ “the woman’s power is for rule, not battle - and her intellect is not for invention or creation, but for sweet ordering, arrangement.”
- simone de beauvoir: ““in a patriarchal culture, woman inevitably experiences herself as object and other”
- chodorow: “men are socially and psychologically reproduced by women” “but women are reproduced (or not) largely by themselves”
- templeton: reductionist feminist play interpretation OR speaks a “truth of the human soul”
