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What did sissy say when mr Gragrind asked her ‘what is the first principle of science?’

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The absurd answer ‘to do unto others as I would that they should do onto me’

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What did Nora say to helmer in her epiphany regarding beggars?

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I have been living here like a beggar, from hand to mouth

I lived by doing tricks for you Torvald!

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In the poem the song of the shirt, what does the narrator say metaphorically about ‘a shroud’?

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Sewing at once, with a double thread

A shroud as well as a shirt-

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What does the hard times narrator say about humanism vs rationalism? (National debt)

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It is known, to the force of a single pound weight, what the engine will do
but not all the calculations of the national debt can tell me the capacity for good and evil

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In Kipplings poem ‘the white mans burden’, what satanic metaphor does he use to describe the natives?

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Half-devil and half-child

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How does Kipling describe the natives believes?

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Watch sloth and heathen folly

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How does mr bounderby describe his childhood?

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I passed the day in a ditch, and the night in a pigsty

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What does Jack say about his land which inverts Victorian values of nature?

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In fact as far as I can make out, the poachers are the only people who make anything out of it!

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How does Kipling paradoxically call the act of colloniolism?

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The savage war of peace

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How does the song of the shirt use syntaxical parallelism?

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With fingers weary and worn

With eyelids heavy and red

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In hardy’s poem The Oxen, how does he portray the idea of collective faith in the first stanza?

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Now they are all on their knees
An elder said as we sat in a flock
By the embers at hearthside ease

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What does Nora say about her ideas on religion and who she was told by?

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All I know is what Pastor Hansen said when I was confirmed

He said that religion was this that and the other

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How does dickens portray Louisa as being trapped between what she has been taught to do and natural inclinations?

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There was a light with nothing to rest upon, a fire with nothing to burn

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In what way does dickens mock the forces nature of morality in Victorian society?

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The House of Commons were indignantly petitioning for acts of parliament that should make people religious by main force

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What is the speech that Gragrind gives to his group of pupils about fact

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Now what I want is Fact. Teach these boys and girls nothing but Fact.
Facts alone are wanted in life. Plant nothing else and root out everything else

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What does bounderby say to the poor people about rising to the top based on his own ‘experience’?

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What I did you can do. Why don’t you go do it?

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How does dickens describe Tom’s childhood?

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A young gentleman whose imagination has been strangled in his cradle- such a monster

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How does Mr Rochester describe the atmosphere of the West Indies?

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I was physically influenced by the atmosphere and scene wherein she momentarily mingled my name with such a tone of demon-hate, with such language!

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How does Thomas Conrad depict the life of a factory worker as a path to insanity?

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Work-work-work

Till the brain begins to swim

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What are mrs Gragrind’s last words on ‘ologies’?

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There is something-not an Ology at all- that your Father has missed

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What does Sir John River say about the religious duty of going on the colonial expedition?

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It is in scenes of strife and danger-where courage is proved, and energy exercised, and fortitude tasked

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How does Kiplings tone reflect his attitudes towards white supremacy?

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Send forth the best ye breed

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What is the shocking speech Helmer gives on the importance of honour- even over love

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I would gladly work night and day for you. But no man would sacrifice his honour for the one he loves

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How does Dickens use hypotaxis to reflect the monotonous life of ‘The Hands’

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People equally like one another, who all went in and out at the same hours, with the same sound upon the same pavement

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What are Helmers views on deception/ lies in values of parental obligation?

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Nearly all young criminals had lying mothers

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How does helmer use tricolon to describe Nora after the discovery of her crime?

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A hypocrite, a liar, worse than that, a criminal!

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How is Rachel described as an angel and symbol of purity?

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She looked as if she has glory shining round her head

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What does Helmer say about Nora’s morals after the discovery?

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No religion, no morals, no sense of duty

29
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In the Victorian era, women were often diagnosed with hysteria if they didn’t conform to societies norms, how does Helmer reflect this?

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You are ill Nora! You are delirious

30
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What date was A Dolls House written?

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1879

31
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How does Mr Gragrind persuade Louise to marry Mr Bounderby?

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Now what are the Facts of this case? You are, we will say in round numbers, 20 years of age; Mr Bounderby is, we will say in round numbers, 50

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What does Bitzer say about the principles of the Gragrind philosophy?

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Nobody was ever on any account to give anybody anything, or render anybody help without purchase

33
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How is Louisa’s imagination described?

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A fire with nothing to burn, a starved imagination keeping life in itself somehow

34
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How does Kipling use patriotic language?

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Serve your captive need

And check the show of pride

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How does Louisa describe her own thoughts?

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I have such unmanageable thoughts, that they will wonder

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How does Mr Harthouse describe Louisa’s home?

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There was no mute signs of a women in the room

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How does Mr Harthouse describe Sissy’s power when she visits him?

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Sissy’s modest fearlessness, her truthfulness put all artifice aside, it presented something in which he was so inexperienced and against which he knew any of his weapons would fall so powerless

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How does Mr Gragrind describe Sissy?

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There was something about the girl that could not be set in tabular form

39
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In The Oxen how does Hardy give the impression of loss of faith in the ‘fiction’ of religion

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So fair a fancy few would weave

In the years!

40
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How does Bounderby portray the demands of the poor?

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Expect to be set up in a coach at six, and to be fed on, turtle soup and venison with a gold spoon

41
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How does Mr Harthouse describe Louisa’s hard exterior?

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It was no use ‘going in’ yet awhile to comprehend this girl, for she baffled all penetration

42
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How does Mr Harthouse describe Louisa on there first encounter?

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Her features were handsome, but their natural play was so locked up that it seemed impossible to guess at their genuine expression

43
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How does Dickens use the symbol of as snake to describe the satanic industrial town

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Interminable serpents of smoke

44
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How does Dickens describe the buildings as ‘savage’ like

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A town of unnatural red and black, like the painted face of a savage

45
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How does the title ‘A Dolls House’ link to what Nora says in the final act?

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Our home has been nothing but a play-room. I have been your doll wife

46
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How does hardy portray lost faith in the last stanza?

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In the lonely Barton

I should go with him in the gloom

47
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In a Heart of Darkness, what does Marlow saw about the natives humanity?

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It was unearthly, and the men were-No the were not inhuman

48
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How does Marlow describe the similarity between them and the civilised Victorians?

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Truth stripped of it’s cloak of time

49
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In the 2nd stanza of The Oxen how does Hardy introduce feelings of doubt?

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Not did it occur to one of us there

To doubt they were kneeling then

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How does Helmer use the metaphor of a bird to describe the high standards of lies

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A songbird must have a clean beak to chirp with- no false notes!

51
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How does Jane portray the role of women through life as Sir John Rivers wife?

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But as his wife- at his side always, and always restrained and always checked- forced to keep the fire of my nature continually low

52
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How is Harthouse compared to the devil?

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But when he is trimmed smoothed and varnishes whether he take to serving out of red tape, or the kindling of the red fire he is the very Devjl

53
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How is janes experience with a ghost described?

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I was oppressed, suffocated: ensure broke out- I uttered a wild involuntary cry.

54
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In the importance of being earnest how does Wilde mock the standards of morality?

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Jack: you seem to me perfectly heartless calmly eating muffins

55
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What does Algernon say about the truth?

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The truth is rarely pure and never simple

56
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What does Algernon say about flirting?

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The amount of women in London who flirt with their husbands is perfectly scandalous

57
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Name an example of Gwendolyns comic obsession with fashion

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No, thank you. Sugar is not fashionable anymore

58
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How does Jane describe the imprisonment of women?

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I could not help it, the restlessness was in my nature, it agitated me to pain sometimes

59
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What does Nora say about ‘books’?

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I know most people agree with you Torvald, and that’s also what it says in the books

60
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What does Jane eyre say about the laws and principles of religion?

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Laws and principles are not for times when there is no temptation; they are for such moments like these, when body and soul rise in mutiny against rigour

61
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What does Stephen say about Rachel being an angel?

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Thou art an Angel. Bless thee, bless thee!

62
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What does Joseph Conrad say about the natives emotions?

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What was there after all? Joy, fear, sorrow, devotion, valour, rage- who can tell?

63
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How does Jane respond to Helens type of submissive Christianity?

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When we are struck without a reason; we should strike back again very hard- I am sure of it.

64
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What does Jane say about millions of women?

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Millions are condemned to a stiller doom than mine, and millions are in a silent revolt against their lot

65
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What does the song of the shirt say about freedom- in regards to dreams?

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Band, and gusset, and Sean
Till over the buttons I fall asleep
And sew them on in a dream!

66
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What does lady Bracknell say about the effects of nature on Gwendolyns?

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A girl with a simple unspoiled nature, like Gwendolyn, could hardly be expected to reside in the country

67
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What does the song of the shirt say about the fragility of life?

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Oh, God! That bread should be so dear

And flesh and blood so cheap!

68
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How does the song of the shirt use mechanical imperative?

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Stitch! Stitch! Stitch!

English Literature: Victorian (5 decks)

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