No, Thank You, John

Question 1

Persona

Answer 1

Strong, explosive tone of voice, defiant as she dominates the conversation.

Question 2

Title.

Answer 2

Normative expectation of the polite female. Sense of repetition, relentlessness from John.

Question 3

1. ‘I never said I loved you, John’
   2.’ Why will you teaze me day by day’
2. ‘And wax a weariness upon’
3. ’ With always ‘do’ and ‘pray’’

Answer 3

1. Opens with mediares, monontenous begging.
2. Diminuitive quality creates playground, childlike imagery. Simple repetition is a time reference.
3. Elongated ‘w’ sound, metaphor. Connotations of entrapment, manipulated. moulded.
4. Rhetorics force John to reflect.
   ABAB rhyme- entraping. Each stanza mimicks the circualrity of her life. Each stanza is a fresh logical argument.

Question 4

1. ‘No fault of mine, made me your toast’

Answer 4

1. Aligns with the role reversal, the process of toast she has escaped from being morphed into the victim of societal exploitation.

Question 5

1. ’ I dare say Meg or Moll would take’
   ‘Pity upon you, if you’d ask’

Answer 5

Character doubling is perhaps a colloquial reference to prostitution.
A dig at masculinity in its primitive form. forcing him to acknowledge his privilege.

Question 6

‘I’ll wink at your untruth’

Answer 6

Sexual oppression of woman, provocative nature of the ‘wink’ gives her the superior role in the relationship. Epitome of subversion.

Question 7

‘Let us strike hands as hearty friends’

Answer 7

Masculine image places them on equal footing. business metaphor.

Question 8

‘Here’s friendships for you if you like; but love
No, Thank you, John.’

Answer 8

Her own proposal introduces a business semantic as the woman takes on the leadership role as she subverts the stoic stereotype of the man. She places herself in the public spehere whilst removing herself from the domestic sphere.
Circularity of structure.