Plans & Comments

Question 1

Plan ‘Human Beings and Their Environments’ (G, R, A)

Answer 1

1. Psychology of time and space; Chronotope
2. Nature vs Industry & effects of mechanisation
3. Alienation and spiritual estrangement

Question 2

Comment ‘Human Beings and their Environment’

Answer 2

What dehumanises alienated automata of the North and where do novels come into that project?

Question 3

Plan ‘Presentation of Marriage’

Answer 3

1. Patriarchy’s agent, marriage market and gift economy
2. Internalisation and inescabability
3. Private vs Public ; appearance vs reality & violence
4. Blank spaces, erasure and articulate silence

Question 4

Comments on ‘Presentation of Marriage’

Answer 4

be economical about trading of women, include victorian contexts e.g. Mill

Question 5

Plan ‘Significance of Material Things’ Eliot and James

Answer 5

1. Relationship between self & things: narrative of the self: public/private self: self-fashioning/performativity
2. Destabalisation of ideal/real category; feminine identity and performative asceticism
3. Dress and morality: symbolism and signification
4. Objectification and the male gaze

Question 6

Comments ‘Significance of Material Things’

Answer 6

performative ascents and the way in which the material - or acceptance of it - represents a recognition of ordinary, real desire. Helps explain why Isabel Archer marries Osmand, the intersection of sexual attraction and the seductive force of beautiful things.

Question 7

Plan ‘subversion and the stage’

Answer 7

1. Ideal/Real –> gap between myth, expectations and reality
2. Inversions and Ambivalence - Gender, Religion
3. Colonial positioning: ‘double speak’, outsider/insider

Question 8

Plan Social/Political Commentary (G&D) - Morality & Politics

Answer 8

1. Utilitarianism vs Romanticism (philosophical comentary)
2. Social Commentary & Education
3. WC individuals