Gender

Question 1

LWF - men hold power QUOTES x7

Answer 1

• “child” - LdW
• women “domestic creatures” - DOB
• “it was only Berwick’s brutal and incessant threats of suicide that made me accept him at all”
• “you are” “you are” “you would” “you have no courage, none!” LD
• “I have heard that men are brutal, horrible” -LW
• “you cut open my bank book. you have no right to do such a thing!”
• arranging roses

Question 2

LWF - men hold power CRITIC x2

Answer 2

• Esdaile - fear that economically liberated women had a castrating effect on men
• Bose - Although men hold the ultimate power… for the purposes of the action they are defined by their relationship to women

Question 3

LWF - men hold power CONTEXT

Answer 3

-the law stated that a woman became, in a sense, her husband’s property when they married, a law doctrine known as coverture, and allowed a married woman’s identity to be subsumed in her husband’s.
- due to their reproductive system, women were seen (by men) as emotional and unstable to the point where they were incapable of making rational decisions.
- “let women be what god intended, a helpmate for man, but with totally different duties and vocations” - queen victoria

Question 4

Betrayal - Men hold power 8 QUOTES

Answer 4

-“We wouldn’t actually want a woman around, would we Jerry?
- “I just felt like giving her a good bashing. The old itch…you understand.”
- “you’re not free in the afternoons…how can we meet” (he goes to America)
- “I cook and slave for you.”
- The room is dimly let. Jerry is sitting in the shadows.
- Emma cries quietly. Robert holds her.
- ‘I should have blackened you, in your white wedding dress’
- E reliant on J to take key off keychain

Question 5

Betrayal - men hold power CRITIC x2

Answer 5

• Pinter - Betrayal is about ‘a nine year relationship between two men who are best friends’
• Burkman - Emma becomes ‘more and more a mere object to the men’

Question 6

Betrayal - men hold power CONTEXT

Answer 6

• Robert’s possessive nature possibly a reflection of the patriarchal society he lives in - men having much more power, freedom and equality both systematically and on an individual level

Question 7

LWF - women hold power QUOTES x4

Answer 7

• cuts cover from bank book
• Mrs E sails into the room
• “with a proper background women can do anything”
• “To save you from the abyss into which you are falling, there is nothing in the world I would not dare”

Question 8

LWF - women hold power CRITICS x3

Answer 8

• Wilde - ‘Women rule society’
• Eisdaile - Society ‘hypocritically ostracises fallen women’
• Bose - society ‘fears self-determining women’s disruptive power’

Question 9

LWF - women hold power CONTEXT

Answer 9

• Wilde agreed in equality between men and women - in The Lady’s World he wrote how there should be a way for women to express themselves and their views and opinions. He designed the magazine as the ‘first social magazine for women’

Question 10

Betrayal - Women hold power 4 QUOTES

Answer 10

• Gallery ‘I like it. I want to do it.’
• “I don’t quite know what we’re doing any more”
• “i think we’ve made absolutely the right decision’
• reverse chronology - power in S1 contrast in S9

Question 11

Betrayal - women hold power CRITIC x2

Answer 11

• Burkman - Emma is not only the play’s major victim, she is its only victor as well
• Billington - ‘Ability of women to transcend the destruction of male bonds’

Question 12

Betrayal - women hold power CONTEXT

Answer 12

• The Equal Pay Act 1970 gives an individual a right to the same contractual pay and benefits as a person of the opposite sex in the same employment
• The Sex Discrimination Act 1975 made it unlawful for an individual to be discriminated against in the workplace