Ros/DoM Plan Quotes Flashcards

Question

“The marriage night..."

Answer 1

“The marriage night is the entering into some prison”- pursuing desire bad

Answer 2

"How doth our sister Duchess bear herself in her imprisonment?”- imprisoned for pursuing desire

Answer 3

“I wish and I wish I were a man”- want to be powerful

Answer 4

“I never said I loved you, John”- defiant

Answer 5

“It’s a weary life, it is, she said, Doubly blank in a woman’s lot”- unfairness

Answer 6

“Diamonds are of most value, they say, that have passed through most jewellers hands”- powerful

Answer 7

“I did vow never to part with it, But to my second husband”- witty, powerful

Answer 8

“Why will you haunt me?”- obsession

Answer 9

“They sounded kind and full of loves”- manipulation

Answer 10

“You know already what man is”- sexually obsessed

Answer 11

“That day we waded ankle-deep for lilies in the beck”- sinful

Answer 12

“There is a kind of honeydew that’s deadly: ‘Twill poison your fame Look to’t. Be not cunning"- reputation/ shame

Answer 13

“old anchorite for devotion”- pursuing devotion

Answer 14

“I tell my secret? No indeed, not I”- powerful

Answer 15

“Not as much as a grain of dust”- rather be dead

Answer 16

“Let me have some buds to cheer my outcast state. He answered not.”- desperate for power

Answer 17

“Come violent death”- death over powerlessness

Answer 18

“Pale young wife”- powerless

Answer 19

“Close the pistol to her brow, God forgive them this!”- powerless

Answer 20

“The door was shut. I looked between Its iron bars”- powerlessness

Answer 21

“I account this world a tedious theatre, For I do play a part in't 'gainst my will."- powerlessness

Answer 22

“You took my heart in your hand…With a critical eye you scanned it”- trusting/ powerless

Answer 23

You are very cold. I fear you are not well after your travel”- trusting

Answer 24

“For I account it the honourablest revenge”- leading to despair

Answer 25

“She’s plagued with art”- leading to despair

Answer 26

“Maude Clare was like a queen”- isolation

Answer 27

“I sit here quite alone Blinded by tears”- despair

Answer 28

“Now dust an embers mock my fire; Where was the hire for which my life was hired?”- purposeless

Answer 29

“Where thirsting longing eyes Watch the slow door That opening, letting in, lets out no more”- desparation

Answer 30

“Oh vanity of vanities, desire!”- love vain

Answer 31

Twas just like one that hath a little fingering on the lute yet cannot tune it”- sexual

Answer 32

“'This was my fathers poniard”- Phallic symbol

Answer 33

“Do you remember Jeanie, How she met them in the moonlight" Death better than powerlessness

Answer 34

“While to this day no grass will grow Where she lies low”- powerlessness

Answer 35

“Now let Thy judgement stand- yea, judge me now”-devotion keeps her from suicide

Answer 36

“a woman’s words are weak”- powerless

Answer 37

“Portia, I 'll new kindle thy coals again, And revive the rare and almost dead example Of a loving wife.”- suicide

Answer 38

“you tell me of the future that you plann’d”- control

Answer 39

“your darkest actions - nay, your privatest thoughts - will come to light”- lack of control

Answer 40

“O dream how sweet, too sweet, too bitter sweet”- womans sexuality limited

Answer 41

“I dare say Meg or Moll would take pity upon you, if you’d ask” Men unvirtuous

Answer 42

“Thy curiosity Hath undone thee- thou'rt poisoned with that book."- desire sinful

Answer 43

“Marry? They are most luxurious, Will wed twice”- marriage twice sinful, control

Answer 44

“Virtually everything [Rossetti] writes is to be understood in a religious context” Simon Humphries

Answer 45

The Cardinal “can toss off his religious vocation as easily as he can remove his cardinal’s robes” Leah Marcus

Answer 46

"She is a religious poet, but much of her work is driven by uncertainty” Humphries

Answer 47

“As Ferdinand descends into lycanthropy…he takes on subhuman attitudes that Protestant culture associated with Catholic spiritual predation” Leah Marcus

Answer 48

“Rossetti had passionate sexual feelings awakened by her love affair with Collinson that were denied any output.” Kathleen Jones

Answer 49

“Rossetti deliberately sets her sights on another world…, where death equals life” Rosenblum

Answer 50

“It reflects a profound fear of female sexuality and its potential consequences” Harrison

Answer 51

“Of course theirs is…a marriage that began with the woman on top” Theodore Leinwand

Answer 52

“Rossetti’s poetry succeeds… “because she is trying to make a woman’s voice thunder like a man’s” Arthur Waugh

Answer 53

“Rossetti uses the symbol of the dead woman to ‘reverse the paradox’: ‘the dead woman really lives; the powerless woman, like an immobile soul, has power” Alexander Welsh

Answer 54

“The nature of female rule is unnatural” John Knox

Answer 55

“Marriage could mean silence. But Christina Rossetti was not silenced” A&C Belsey

Answer 56

“Christina Rossetti fascinates because she is an enigmatic figure, in life and in literature” Kathleen Jones

Answer 57

“The play insists that one can never be too sure about other people’s intentions” Frances E Dolan

Answer 58

"The Duchess’s misery is ... also a profound internal agony, rooted in her awareness of the inescapable isolation of her position as both a woman and a ruler." Peter A Womack

Answer 59

“Her poetic voice often reflects a resignation to unfulfilled longing” Isobel Armstrong

Answer 60

“The Duchess is reduced to the stereotype of a penitent whore” Lisa Jardine

Answer 61

“The Duchess of Malfi… steps out of the path of duty and marries for lust” Lisa Jardine

Answer 62

“In the end, Rossetti’s love for God always trumps the love another person” Bocher

Answer 63

“The brothers may be justified in taking an interest in their sister’s marital affairs, but it is rather difficult to see how they can be justified in their inordinate interest in her sexual being as well” Jankowski

Answer 64

Rossetti “accepts the burden of womanhood and paints herself as a poet who belongs nowhere” Rosenblum

Answer 65

“[Women] became an object of commerce who- passed from father to husband- sealed a bargain of greater or lesser economic significance” Jankowski

Answer 66

“Rossetti stages textural death in order to dramatise the plight of female writers” Alfano

Answer 67

“In… The Duchess of Malfi characters are highly conscious of life after death, and in particular of the heavenly judgement that awaits them.” Marche

Answer 68

“Women write about death as a metaphor for their own cultural powerlessness” Gilbert

Answer 69

“The education of women [in the Renaissance period] meant that they became more conscious of their inherent free will, but convention prevented them from exercising it.” Barbara Banks Amendola

Answer 70

“Christina was by nature rebellious, passionate and spontaneous, and these qualities did not fit very well with Victorian notions of female meekness and submission.” Jones