Critics Flashcards
Callaghan- Malfi
‘Malfi’s: ‘exclusion both of women and of personal happiness is the sign of its absolute corruption.’
Aughterson- Malfi
‘Duchess and Bosola are: ‘social and gender victims of the privileged and closed world of degenerate aristocratic masculinity.’
Ray- Malfi
Ferdinand’s passion: ‘comes from a desire for his sister, a desire all the more violent for its being violently repressed.”
Ribner- Malfi
Cardinal: ‘stands for the guile and hypocrisy which render religion but a shallow pretence.’
Williams- Rossetti
‘her female characters often defy the norms of Victorian womanhood.’
Kirby-Rossetti
Goblin Market: ‘can be read as an allegory for a woman trying to transcend the boundaries placed upon her by society.’