Love and gender Flashcards
P1: Tom uses his masculinity to assert dominance physically and through social standing
C1: ‘It was capable of enormous leverage - a cruel body’
C1: ‘There was a boom as Tom Buchanan shut the rear window’
C7: ‘You’re crazy, he exploded’
Daisy uses her sexuality to entice men which is what drives Gatsby to chase after her - she is like siren with the way she uses her voice
C1: ‘Daisy’s murmur was only to make people lean toward her’
C1: ‘As if her speech is an arrangement of notes that will never be played again’
C1: ‘Bright eyes and a bright passionate mouth’
The Flea - The speaker in the poem lays out his argument through a regular structure and trivialises the act of sex to pressure his lover to have sex
‘In this flea, our two bloods mingled be’
‘This flea is you and I and this our marriage bed and marriage temple is’
The Flea - The woman in the Flea however is not completely helpless and tries to combat against the speaker to which he then guilts her for
‘Purpled thy nail in blood of innocence’
‘Just so much honour, when thou yield’st to me, will waste, as this flea’s death took life from thee’
La Belle Dame - Feminity is villanised in this as the woman can easily manipulated her purity to lure the speaker in and then leave him for dead
‘Her foot was light and her eyes were wild’
‘She lulled to sleep and there I dreamed - Ah! Woe betide!’
‘La Belle Dame sans Merci thee hath in thrall!’
