Drac/12N- Gender Flashcards
Ch4, Harker talks abt Vamp Brides
“God’s mercy is better than that of these monsters…At its foot a man may sleep-as a man.”
Ch8 Lucy refers to oppression of women expressing themselves
“We should have shocked the ‘New Woman’ with our appetites”
> Expresses her wanton desires to ‘angelic’ Mina, foreshadows her fate?- Victorians idealised subservient, dutiful, conservative women
Ch12 Van Helsing, men as saviours
“Abrave man’s blood is the best thing on this earth when a woman is in trouble.”
Ch14 For Van Helsing, Mina represents the ideal woman
“She is one of God’s women”
Ch17 Van Helsing, men only allowed to show feelings if infront of maternal,’angelic’ woman like Mina
“Something in a woman’s nature…makes a man feel free to break down before her.”
Ch17 Mina makes statement that all women are maternal
“We women have something of a mother in us”
2.4 Orsino suggests men love differently to women, men must love someone beautiful physically in order to remain in love
“Our fancies are more giddy…than women’s are”
1.4 Orsino abt Cesario/Viola, gendered lang; irony
“Diana’s lip is not more smooth and rubious”
“Thy small pipe… maiden’s organ”
2.1 Antonio’s devotion to Sebastian;transcends gender norms of masculinity, Ant = emotionally devoted, stretch-in love?
“I adore thee so…I will go”
