MIDTERM Flashcards
THE SENTINEL: GENERAL TAKE
Emancipatory movement, purpose of achieving freedom and satisfaction, demands strict repression from its members
THE SENTINEL: AGGRESSION IS..
Victory, but victory is failure, there’s no need to fight anymore
THE SENTINEL: MARRIAGE
Getting married = weakness, marriage is giving up
WOMEN IN LOVE: THEME
Self-actualization within each other
THE WASTE LAND: THEME
Death and life, war and peace
MYTHICAL METHOD
Establishing a parallel between the past and the present, elegiac mood, things were better/gleaming in the past
SAD CHARACTERS
Septimus, Gerald, both dead, both lost/depressed
THE SENTINEL: THEME
Female sexuality, life as a female, guilt
SOLID OBJECTS: THEME
Domination of thoughts, persistent desire
THE MAN WHO LOVED: THEME
Pride vs. insecurity, loneliness vs. recognition
THE MAN WHO LOVED: CHARACTERS
Prickett Ellis, The Dalloways, Miss O’Keefe
SOLID OBJECTS: CHARACTERS
John and Charles
THE SENTINEL: AUTHOR
Rebecca West
WOMEN IN LOVE: AUTHOR
D.H. Lawerence
THE SENTINEL: CHARACTERS
Adela, Rosie, Ashcroft, Langland