Marriage

Question 1

DOM: ‘I winked and chose a husband’

Answer 1

Webster introduces a highly protofem. figure = ‘I chose’ gives her the autonomy to select her own husband.
AO3: Quite uncommon in the renaissance era for a woman to orchestrate her own relationships as this responsibility was typically allocated to a male relative.
AO5: DOM remains unquestionably feminist.

Question 2

Marriage for self preservation in ASCND vs. for love in TDOM

Answer 2

• Stella chooses Stanley over her sister bc she recognises that she cannot survive as an independent woman (whom Blanche symbolises)
  AO5: ….Stella’s refusal to believe Blanche [regarding the rape] is a commital to self-preservation rather than love.
• Blanche also wishes to marry to preserve her image and evade judgement as a ‘whore’ so she ‘wants Mitch very badly’

Contrastingly the DOM specifically chooses a marriage that will destroy her social reputation!!!!