Maude Clare - Love and Relationships

Question 1

Strong connection between Maude Clare and Thomas

Answer 1

‘My lord gazed long on pale Maude Clare.’ - Verb ‘gazed,’ - adoration / enchantment

Question 2

Strong connection between Maude Clare and Thomas

Answer 2

‘Here’s my half of the golden chain you wore about your neck.’ - Adjective ‘golden,’ implies perfection, heavenly etc and the half implies that they were united - embraced one another etc.

Question 3

Strong connection between Maude Clare and Thomas

Answer 3

'’Lady,’ he said ‘Maude Clare,’ he said.’ - Freudian Slip - reader can see clear sexual tension between the pair.

Question 4

Weak connection between Nell and Thomas

Answer 4

‘His bride was like a village maid, Maude Clare was like a queen.’ - Incongruence between the bride being compared to a village maid and a fallen woman being compared to a queen - Rossetti supporting MC?

Question 5

Weak connection between Nell and Thomas

Answer 5

Thomas’ mother says to him that his father and her had the same tale thirty years before. But his father was not as ‘pale,’ as him not she as ‘pale,’ as Nell. - Sense of guilt, sense of discomfort, sense of betrayal?

Question 6

Weak connection between Nell and Thomas

Answer 6

‘I’ll love him till he loves me best, me best of all, Maude Clare.’ - Reader is saddened for Nell that she understands that Thomas is more connected to MC but is forced by societal expectations to ‘settle’ for her.