Ibsen + Rossetti

Question 1

Rossetti- women in difficult situations

Answer 1

Maude Clare
Indian Mutiny
Shut Out
Twice

Question 2

Isolated individuals

Answer 2

Shut Out

Indian Mutiny

Question 3

Rossetti- Contemporary Victorian society

Answer 3

No Thank you John

Twice

Question 4

Women societal pressures

Answer 4

No Thank you John
Maude Clare
Twice
A Birthday

Question 5

Empowerment

Answer 5

No thank you John
Twice
Winter my Secret

Question 6

Outcast

Answer 6

Shut Out
Maude Clare
Souer Louise

Question 7

Submissive

Answer 7

Shut Out
Remember
Indian Mutiny

Question 8

Anxious/doubt

Answer 8

Shut Out

Good Friday

Question 9

Devotional

Answer 9

Good Friday
Twice
Shut Out

Question 10

Ibsen context

Answer 10

Initially called ‘Tragedy for Modern Times’
Laura Keiler
Social criticsm subversion of ‘well made play’
Liberal- challenging patriarchal
Paved way for New woman (Linde)

Question 11

Context for Rossetti

Answer 11

Autobiographical- her own illness and devotion
Pre- Raphaelite Brotherhood (couldn’t join)
Social criticism of patriarchy
Sister in home for ‘fallen women’ Highgate Penitentiary
Female perspective- women inferiority
Feminist causes- signed women’s anti-suffrage petition
Value of unattainable love

Question 12

Norweigan context

Answer 12

emerging middle class
women’s role at home and with children
women not giving birth considered ‘figure of pity’
Tend to husbands needs- submissive

Question 13

Patriarchal context

Answer 13

man protector and provider
Women inferiority to men- property of father
Women no legal rights in marriage- no keys to front door

Question 14

Critical quotes on women (Dolls House)

Answer 14

‘A woman cannot be herself in modern society’ (notes from modern tragedy)
‘There are two kinds of moral law. One for men, and one, quite different for women’

Question 15

Context on fallen women

Answer 15

Anne Marie

any women engaged in sexual intercourse outside of marriage on same level as prostitute

Question 16

Rossetti rejected proposals context

Answer 16

John Brett- ‘No thank you John’

Charles Cayley- rejected as he wasn’t christian

Question 17

Michael C Wiseman quote on Nora

Answer 17

Nora realises her rebellious actions are outside the pale of societal norms

Question 18

Brian Johnston- Doll

Answer 18

Ibsen depicts her as willingly playing the doll game to her own advantage

Question 19

Robert Brustein- Doll

Answer 19

Nora’s real antogonist is not Torvald, but society itself

Question 20

Richard Gill (Rossetti)

Answer 20

Rossetti’s poetry often concerned with dissappointment, loss and tension between duty and pleasure

Question 21

Gail Finney - Doll

Answer 21

Nora exchanges motherhood for autonomy

Question 22

Alternative ending quote Ibsen

Answer 22

“a barbaric act of violence . . . Its use is absolutely contrary to my wishes.

Question 23

Clement Scott (1899) - Dolls

Answer 23

“The baby wife, who has suddenly and miraculously developed into a thinking woman, leaves her home, breaks her marriage oath, refuses to forgive her husband, abandons her innocent children and becomes absolutely inhuman, simply because she discovers that her husband is an egotist and that she has been a petted little fool

Question 24

Balaky 2016- Doll

Answer 24

Dolls House features the stereotypical representation of women as irrational, naïve and dependent on men

Question 25

Durbach 1991- Doll

Answer 25

“ he sees Nora as an übermarionette, a dancing and singing and reciting doll, created for his leisure

Question 26

Love (R) Williams 2000

Answer 26

she was a writer who returned again and again to the theme of lost or doomed love

Question 27

R- gender, Avery 2014

Answer 27

female figure is depicted as entrapped or confined – physically, psychologically or both

Question 28

R- gender, Kirby 2017

Answer 28

“Rossetti’s poetry demonstrates a concern with the position of women in Victorian society and the constraints placed upon them.

Question 29

Shut out critical- Wallner 2010

Answer 29

it is a poem about coping with personal loss and temptation, or jealousy

Question 30

Remember key quotes

Answer 30

remember me when I am gone away | Gone far away into the silent land

Question 31

Indian Mutiny key quotes

Answer 31

will it hurt much? No, mine own | I wish I could bear the pang for both

Question 32

Twice key quotes

Answer 32

Yet a women's words are weak You took my heart in your hand Let me fall or stand

Question 33

Birthday key quotes

Answer 33

My heart is like a singing bird | My heart is like a rainbow shell/ apple tree

Question 34

Antique key quotes

Answer 34

Doubly blanky in a woman's lot I wish and I wish I were a man None would miss me in all the world

Question 35

No thank you John key quotes

Answer 35

I never said I loved you John I have no heart- perhaps I have not No thank you John

Question 36

Shut Out key quotes

Answer 36

The door was shut/ I looked between iron bars It had been mine and it was lost Mortar and stone to build a wall

Question 37

Maude Clare key quotes

Answer 37

Take my share of a fickle heart My lord was pale with inward strife Thomas faltered in his place

Question 38

Winter my Secret key quotes

Answer 38

I tell my secret? No indeed not I Or you may guess Only my secret's mine, and I won't tell

Question 39

Souer Louise key quotes

Answer 39

I have desire, and I have been desired

Question 40

Key quotes Doll- Nora

Answer 40

``` "The way torvald likes it Squanderbird Just about saving the remains, the appearance I have been performing tricks for you You and Papa did me a great wrong You're a child Nora So miss little independents in trouble I'll sing for you, I'll dance for you ```

Question 41

Reputation quotes (D)

Answer 41

Your father was not a man of unassaible reputation. But I am

Question 42

Marriage quotes (D)

Answer 42

We've been married 8 years, this is the first serious conversation we've had as man and wife But our home has been nothing but a playroom/ I've been your doll wife

Question 43

Type of christianity that influenced Rossetti

Answer 43

Tractarian

Question 44

Avery 2014- Gender (2)

Answer 44

“the speakers of Rossetti’s poems establish strategies for defying expectations and conventions

Question 45

Mold 2008- on Remember

Answer 45

opening line heralds uncomplicated, natural imagery to evoke true happiness,

Question 46

Williams 2000- Indian Mutiny

Answer 46

She is all womanly obedience and purity, he is stoical and masterly, yet tender too

Question 47

Avery 2014- Maude Clare

Answer 47

Thomas remains significantly silent throughout, hiding his face and barely able to stutter Maude Clare’s name

Question 48

Jan Marsh 1994- Twice

Answer 48

contains an implicit protest against gender inequality`

Question 49

1870 married womans property act

Answer 49

women could sell property and inherit money they made

Question 50

1882 married woman acts

Answer 50

woman could own property