module A: role of women Flashcards
blank verse
Richard: “When men are ruled by women: ‘Tis not the King that send you to the tower; My Lady Grey… tis she…”
Effect: Richard: “When men are ruled by women: ‘Tis not the King that send you to the tower; My Lady Grey… tis she…”
highlights representation of women, appealing to patriarchal society. R suggests women should not have power/ they will use if for evil. S uses this irony to suggest that it is women who are more capable of using authority for good.
“I to my grave… Eighty odd years of sorrow I have seen and each hours joy wrack’d with a week of grief”
alliteration, emotive language
powerfully summarises the despair and victimisation of women as they overwhelmingly feel ramifications of R’s sins. their emotional response are driving force of play contrasting against R’s evil as they convey reality of R’s actions as the
Q E “I to my grave… Eighty odd years of sorrow I have seen and each hours joy wrack’d with a week of grief”
powerfully summarises the despair and victimisation of women as they overwhelmingly feel ramifications of R’s sins.
their emotional response are driving force of play contrasting against R’s evil as they convey reality of R’s actions as the
“Cancel his bond of life, dear God, I plead/ That I may live to say ‘the dog is dead’”
Margaret, alliteration
Margaret’s prayer appeals to God for divine retribution
“Cancel his bond of life, dear God, I plead/ That I may live to say ‘the dog is dead’”
effect “Cancel his bond of life, dear God, I plead/ That I may live to say ‘the dog is dead’”
Margaret’s prayer appeals to God for divine retribution
Margaret functions as a nemesis choric figure,
foreshadowing R’s destiny as she appeals to the execution of divine justice in the phrase “Cancel his bond of life, dear God, I plead/ That I may live to say ‘the dog is dead’”
Stichomythia by Q E
QE: ‘But how long shall her sweet life last?’
R: As long as heaven and nature lengthens it
QE:’As long as hell and Richard likes of it?’
effect of stichomythia by QE
QE: ‘But how long shall her sweet life last?’
R: As long as heaven and nature lengthens it
QE:’As long as hell and Richard likes of it?’
As E out schemes R, manipulating him to believe she will woo her daughter to marry him, she secretly promises her daughter to Richmond.
S conveys intelligence of women in the play.
Extreme chiaroscuro lighting as R laughs maniacally after stating.
“I’ll have her… but I’ll not keep her long”
Effect
Extreme chiaroscuro lighting as R laughs maniacally after stating. “I’ll have her… but I’ll not keep her long”
Through breaking the 4th wall, Pacino attempts to directly engage his audience, imitating S’s use of frequent asides in KRIII. This emphasises that women are merely a means to getting power and S’s patriarchal society.
Plot device in film
Kimball cuts across and mocks Winona Ryder’s opinion,
effective of Plot device in film as Kimball cuts across and mocks Winona Ryder’s opinion,
reiterates subservience of women in S society despite greater acceptance of gender equality in 1990’s US following the feminist movement
