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Ibsen + Rossetti Flashcards

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Rossetti- women in difficult situations

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Maude Clare
Indian Mutiny
Shut Out
Twice

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Isolated individuals

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Shut Out

Indian Mutiny

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Rossetti- Contemporary Victorian society

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No Thank you John

Twice

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Women societal pressures

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No Thank you John
Maude Clare
Twice
A Birthday

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Empowerment

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No thank you John
Twice
Winter my Secret

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Outcast

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Shut Out
Maude Clare
Souer Louise

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Submissive

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Shut Out
Remember
Indian Mutiny

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Anxious/doubt

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Shut Out

Good Friday

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Devotional

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Good Friday
Twice
Shut Out

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Ibsen context

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

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Context for Rossetti

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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

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Norweigan context

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

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Patriarchal context

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

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Critical quotes on women (Dolls House)

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‘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’

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Context on fallen women

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Anne Marie

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

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Rossetti rejected proposals context

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John Brett- ‘No thank you John’

Charles Cayley- rejected as he wasn’t christian

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Michael C Wiseman quote on Nora

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

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Brian Johnston- Doll

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

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Robert Brustein- Doll

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

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Richard Gill (Rossetti)

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

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Gail Finney - Doll

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Nora exchanges motherhood for autonomy

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Alternative ending quote Ibsen

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

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Clement Scott (1899) - Dolls

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“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

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Balaky 2016- Doll

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

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Durbach 1991- Doll

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

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Love (R) Williams 2000

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

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R- gender, Avery 2014

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

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R- gender, Kirby 2017

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

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Shut out critical- Wallner 2010

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

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Remember key quotes

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remember me when I am gone away

Gone far away into the silent land

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Indian Mutiny key quotes

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will it hurt much? No, mine own

I wish I could bear the pang for both

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Twice key quotes

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

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Birthday key quotes

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My heart is like a singing bird

My heart is like a rainbow shell/ apple tree

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Antique key quotes

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

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No thank you John key quotes

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

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Shut Out key quotes

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

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Maude Clare key quotes

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

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Winter my Secret key quotes

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

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Souer Louise key quotes

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I have desire, and I have been desired

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Key quotes Doll- Nora

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"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
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Reputation quotes (D)

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

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Marriage quotes (D)

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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

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Type of christianity that influenced Rossetti

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Tractarian

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Avery 2014- Gender (2)

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

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Mold 2008- on Remember

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

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Williams 2000- Indian Mutiny

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

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Avery 2014- Maude Clare

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

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Jan Marsh 1994- Twice

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contains an implicit protest against gender inequality`

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1870 married womans property act

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women could sell property and inherit money they made

50
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1882 married woman acts

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woman could own property

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