Love for a dollhouse and Rossetti Flashcards

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context for love

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  • In Victorian era, wives were seen as possessions to their husbands
  • Rossetti had rejected three proposals, two because of conflicts in religion that she did not want to change, she did not want to be owned by someone
  • Rossetti worked for a women refuge and did not like the double standards for men and women
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Love is possession

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  • Torvald treats Nora more like a pet then a wife
  • ” I would never dream of doing anything you didn’t want me to” - Nora to Torvald
  • ## “I have been your doll wife, just as at home I was daddy doll child”
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the fallen women

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  • Maude Claire loved Thomas but he left her making her a fallen women, this has made her cold
  • “take my share of a fickle heart”
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links between love and sex

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  • Laura trades a piece of her (her hair) in exhacnge for fruit, symbolic for prostitution
  • Nora constantly has to sdueuce tovlard for money and to manipulate him with her sexuallitly
  • Nora confuses tovlards desire for her as love smiler to how Laura sees the fruit as a amazing but in reliably it is toxic
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the safety in love

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  • Nell decides to back up Thomas despite Maude Claires warnings “ this is a safer type of love where it works on respect and honesty, Nell knows what she is going into
  • Similar to Krogstad and Mrs Linde as she takes him back knowing about his past and they are well suited for each over
  • “I’ll love him till he loves me best
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secrets in Love

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  • Nora gets very excited that she has managed to keep her secret from Tovalrd but is afraid of what will happen if he finds out
  • In winter my secret the narrator seems joyful and teasing of her secret but in reality she thinks it is never safe to revile it
  • the joy of having something that they posses
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the rejection of love

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  • Nora rejects Der Ranks advances

- No thank you John is all about the reaction of advances for men

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True love

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  • Noras love for her children is true as she consrtnalty worries for them
  • The love In a birthday
  • the round tower
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