The Merchant Critics Flashcards
1
Q
Stevens
A
‘a story intending to show the deceitfulness of women’
2
Q
Coghill
A
‘January appears helpless, romantic, generous, tragic’
3
Q
Aers
A
‘woman is a commodity’
4
Q
Tolliver on January
A
‘January’s inability to analyse May’s deceit is essentially his refusal to accept it’
5
Q
Shoaf
A
‘his private property has betrayed him’
6
Q
Tolliver on May
A
‘May is made of masculine fantasy’
7
Q
Pearsall
A
‘the amoral tale reduces all human behaviour to lust and greed’
8
Q
Hanson
A
May is ‘devised out of January’s thoughts, just as Eve is out of Adam’s’
9
Q
Kelly
A
‘mutual love between spouses is notably absent’
10
Q
Harrington
A
‘we are left with the disturbing notion that a life of happiness is possible through folly and self-deception’
11
Q
Ashton
A
‘this portrayal of married life is firmly on the side of the female’
