Marriage

Question 1

LWF - marriage is not sacred 5 QUOTES

Answer 1

• ‘game of marriage’
• “the world has grown so suspicious of happy married life”
• “London is full of women who trust their husbands…they look so thoroughly unhappy”
• “do you think that the wife should not console herself?”
• Lady W ‘Windermere and I married for love’; Duchess: ‘Yes, we begin like that’

Question 2

LWF - marriage is not sacred CRITIC

Answer 2

• Dickson - ‘The secret to a happy marriage is for both partners to keep secrets from one another’

Question 3

LWF - marriage is not sacred 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

Question 4

Betrayal - marriage is not sacred 4 QUOTES

Answer 4

• “I can’t bear being back in London….on Torcello, when I walked about Torcello in the early morning, alone, I was happy, I wanted to stay there forever.”
• “She loves me…but I adore you”
• “I should have blackened you, in your white wedding dress, blackened you in your bridal dress, before ushering you into your wedding, as your best man”
• E “I’m sorry”, R “Sorry?” ‘Silence’

Question 5

Betrayal - marriage is not sacred CRITICS

Answer 5

• Wells - “A discourse on failed love”

Question 6

Betrayal - marriage is not sacred CONTEXT

Answer 6

• Pinter’s affair with Joan Bakewell
• 1971, just under 40% of married women were having an affair. The number of divorces exceeded 100,000 for the first time.