MLD Flashcards
1
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MLD
Big ideas
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- Hubris can blind people and lead to dangerous acts
- Critique of the control and dominance of the patriarchal system as innocent women experience abusive control and violence
- Warning of harrowing detatchment that comes with power
- Destructive nature of power as it leads to obsession and a need to control how people percieve you
2
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MLD
“My Last Dutchess”
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Possession
Reduced to title
Disposable
3
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MLD
“Will’t please you sit and look at her?”
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Order- not a question
Pride and shallowness
4
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MLD
“As if she ranked/ My gift of a nine-hundred-years-old name/ With anybody’s gift”
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He is so obsessed with power that he doesn’t understand humanity
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