DOM + SCND Critical Views Flashcards

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Ferdinand’s madness - Whigham (D)

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‘manifestation of his inability to control his obsessive need for dominance over his sister’

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Cathartic bathing - Elliot (S)

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‘the bathing symbolises Blanche’s need to wash herself clean of the past’

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Safety in delusion - Chapman (S)

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‘takes gallant and desperate refuge in a magical life she has invented for herself’

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Power - Gunby (D)

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‘commentary on the abuse of power’

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Female identity - Jankowski (D)

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‘examines the consequences of a women who attempts to create her own social and sexual identity’

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Social Mobility - Marcus (D)

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‘expresses both fear and fascination with social mobility

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Blanche symbolism - Churman

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‘Blanche symbolises the old South, romantic, self-deluded, decayed’

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Stanley symbolism - Churman

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‘represents the new, brutish, materialistic world that is taking over’

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Conflict of culture - Gossner (S)

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‘illustrates a violent struggle between primitive forces and the fragile remnants of culture’

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Masculinity - Bray (S)

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‘he embodies a powerful form of masculinity that appealed to the post war era’

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Tragedy of desire - Miller (S)

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‘dichotomy between sexual desire and self destruction

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Female leadership - Jankowski (D)

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‘no language exists for women as rulers, yet is did on women within marriage’

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Aural devices - Williams (S)

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‘This ‘blue piano’ expresses the spirit of life which goes on there’

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Not a victim - Mann (D)

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‘The Duchess creates her own tragedy by her actions, preferring to live her sexual life to the full’

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Sexual conflict - Tapp (S)

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‘dramatises the battle between sexes’

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Duchess’ marriage - Callaghan

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‘perpetually clandestine’

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The trunk as a symbol of Blanche’s privacy - Shead

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‘Stanley’s intrusion into the trunk marks the beginning of an invasion of Blanche’s self’

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Blanche and Williams - Pagan

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‘like Blanche, Williams has a tendency to lie […] shared propensity to mislead people concerning their age’

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Secrecy in Jacobean society - Orlin

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‘privacy seemed a menace to the public well-being’

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The Duchess’ actions - Densens

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‘repeating the historic transgression of Eve’

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Death and virtue - White (D)

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‘a virtuous woman achieved heroism through her death’

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Stanley’s vitality - Quirino

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‘the master player and Darwinian survivor’

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Elysian Fields - Elliot

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‘is the equivalent of heaven in Greek mythology’

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Webster and death - Eliot

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‘Webster was much possessed by death, and saw the skull beneath the skin’

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Tragic justice - White (D)

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‘[villains] meet their death in ways which satisfy poetic justice’

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Corruption and death - Bogard (D) (the P of ED which D all M to D)

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‘the presence of evil decay which drags all mankind to death’

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Social system - Gibbons (D)

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‘the system devours those who serve’

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Anxiety about mixing of social classes - Smith (D)

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‘Bosola becomes a figure of class anxiety’

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High class women - Jankowski

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‘in this double position of wife and ruler, the Duchess becomes an uneasy and threatening figure’

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Blanche as a victim of class - Tapp

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‘a victim of the mythology of the Southern Belle’

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Domestic abuse - Koprinee (S)

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‘macho need for control leads him to abuse Stella emotionally and physically’

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Masculinity asserting violence - Windsor (D)

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‘when confronted with female power and sexual desire, more characters react with extreme violence’

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Need for sexual dominance - Bottoms (S)

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‘where he cannot dominate sexually Stanley uses force’