The Rivals AO2 Flashcards
“She has a lapdog that eats out of gold. She feeds her parrot with small pearls”
- Hyperbole of wealth
- At this point- dramatic irony- the audience knows the secrets before the characters as revealed by the Fag
"The Fatal Connection" "The Mistakes of the Heart" "The Delicate Distress" (alliteration) vs "The Tears of Sensibliity" "The Memoirs of a Lady Quality, Written by Herself"
Secret desire of love
- passion
- suffering
- drama
- Knight in shining armour
“Since she has discovered her own frailty, she is become more suspicious of mine”
- Hypocrisy
- Hamlet reference- “frailty thy name is woman”- give in to their sexual desires
“I wrote a letter to myself”
“put myself in a violent passion”
Theme: deception
dramatic- doubling- pretended to recieve a letter
“and that is what I have determined to do, ever since I knew the penalty”
-in love with the idea of an unconventional love
“he expects every thought and emotion of his mistress to move in unison with his”
“obligation”
-Anti sentimentality
"Fling" "Throw" "Put" "Thrust" "Cram"
Imperative verbs-powerful
-Hide her desires
“Miss, with ‘preference’ and ‘aversion’? They don’t become a young woman”
-duty
contrast of older and younger generation
“natural consequence of teaching girls to read”
“black art as their alphabet”
Hyperbole- black magic
“evergreen tree of diabolical knowledge!”
“fond of handling the leaves will long for the fruit at last”
circulating library paralleled with tree of temptation, Eve.
Knowledge= the serpent
“she might not misspell and mispronounce world so shamefully as some girls do”
Irony- proving Absolutes point
“Let him object if he dare!”
“enforce”
Know they’re losing control?
Lucy- “commend me to a mask of silliness”
Double
“You throw a large stake, but, losing you could stake and throw again”
Unlike Faulkland- Jack can roll again and get another
financial lexis
love is a game
“I fear for her spirits- her health- her life”
Tone of performance= anxious and intense
-Mocking the sentimental
“squallante”, “rumblante” and “quiverante”
Made up- sound more knowledgable
“temperately healthy” “plaintively gay”
oxymoron- contradictory- what Faulkland wants
“monkey led” “palming puppies”
- attitudes to country men
- alliteration- hands everywhere
“od’s triggers and flints”
military language- foreshadows duel
Absolute: “Spoke like a man”
- masculinity vs WOB (what it means to be a woman)
Sir Anthony “I grow old and infirm”
-pity-try to persuade Jack
“Pardon me, sir , I never saw you look more strong and hearty”
vs
“I am so strong and hearty, I may continue to plague”
Persona dependent on person
-Contradiction- metaphor- awareness what Jack thinks.
“sir” “my wife, sir”
-repetition- panic over marriage
“The fortune is saddled with a wife”
autonomy for a perfect marriage
“you must take it with the livestock on it, as it stands!”
antifeminism , Inferior
"decline the purchase" "business" "foreclose" "redeeming" "exchange"
financial lexis
“I cannot obey you”
“I cannot obey”
Repetition- shock
“I give you six hours and a half to consider this”
ultimatum similar to the WOB
- movement between aristocracy and independence
- WOB-not willing to marry the old hag for money
“little girl”
“dear creature”
Sir Lucius- addresses women= inferior
Sir Lucius to Lucy “great mistress of language”
irony
“If I did not want money I’d steal your mistress and her fortune with a great deal of pleasure”
monetary lexis- no interest in Lydia, only his own desires
“Never- never- never- never”
King Lear reference- Shakespearean influence
hyperbolised for comic effect
“I would not have touched anything old or ugly to gain an empire”
Sir Anthony is a hypocrite
“cooler judgement”
“I am conscious of it, yet I cannot correct myself”
Soliloquy- private inner conflict
Neurotic: comedy out of sentimental comedy
“The mutual tear that steals down the cheek of parting lovers is a compact that no smile shall live there until they meet again”
-hyperbole- overly romanticised.
“The door is fastened! Julia! My soul!”
Faulkland- soliloquy- over dramatised
“how little resolution there is in woman!”
changing emotions in soliloquy
-doesn’t realise the impact he has on Julia- self centered.
[Mrs Malaprop gives Captain Absolute the letter]
Act 3 S3= fine example of comic deception
- dramatic irony
- successfully able to manipulate both Lydia and Mrs Malaprop.
“pineapple of politeness”
Malapropism- georgian value
“As for the old weather-beaten she-dragon who guards you”
- dual character
- parallels- Wife, Hag, Fairytale structure.
“But we trifle with our precious moments”
“I may rescue her from undeserved persecution”
-echoes Lydias language- knows how to manipulate her
– later on: uses language and flattery once revealed
“Ay, there is the heavenly assenting smile that first gave soul and spirit to my hopes”
“lying don’t become a young woman”
attitudes to women.
“But he has given me no provocation”
“Ay, we fight to prevent any misunderstanding”
-mockery of duels
“What the devil signifies right, when your honour is concerned”
“I thank heaven our honour and the family pictures , are as fresh as ever”
“but my honour, David, my honour!
- repetition- mockery of georgian values.
- ridiculous notion of honour
“Do everything in a mild and agreeable manner”
- male and noble codes of honour
- Acres does not understand this
- Satirises humour -can not be both powerful and honourable
e. g. “ I must be in passion”
[Bob Acres gives Captain Absolute the challenge]
burlesque- mockery of code of honour
Dramatic Irony - “trust me he gets it”
Farce-both of them are doubling - “determined dog”
WOB: Inversion of the knight vs Acres- dismantling the ideal of male chivalry
[Lydia Languish looks around by degrees]
Metaphor- gradually has to see the reality
“didn’t know her own mind”
-class and reputation- Jack further manipulations and challenges her pride
“it runs in the blood of our family!”
justification for male behaviour
“quarrel genteelly”
oxymoron
“When her love eye was fixed on me, t’other her eye of duty , was finely obliqued”
Eye metaphor- love vs duty
[Enter Faulkland,muffled up in a riding coat]
stage direction
visual comedy
new persona
“opressed”
“my” “my”
“entrust my person to your honour; we will fly together”
“The little I have will be sufficient to support us; and exilr never should be splendid”
- Julia= sentimental
- Relationshoip reflects Lydia’s books
- personal pronoun: means it
- Romeo and Juliet- star crossed lovers
“seal of duty to an act of love”
vs Lydia
“by bearing your infirmities wuth gentleness and resignation”
opposite to the WOB- good wife
-love and duty
“urges sensibility to madness”
King Lear reference- only in madness you can see clearly
(Aside) I will not accuse Faulkland to a sister
loyal
"coldest knights in January" "garden" "cough so pathetically" vs "flimsy" "simpering"
-coldness of society and rejection
-Romeo and Juliet imagery
vs
Language= boring/normal/unromantic
“Edge in a word or two every now and then about my honour”
Burlesque
-inbred honour vs feinged honour
“Yes, my valour is certianly going! It is sneaking off! I feel it oozing out, as if it were at the palms of my hands!”
Personification
- valour= personal courage in battle
- using it as a shield
“fight to oblige Sir Lucius”
fulfils Faulklands desires
“O, my little angel”
Love towards Lydia
“I will support my claim against any man whatever”
romantic love
“I’ll give you my Delia into the bargain”
“Here will you make your fortune?”
financial lexis- trading
WOB and Old Hag - has money
“Men are all barbarians”
feminist
“unfading garland of modest, hurtless flowers”
“ill-judging passion” “whose thorn offends them”
- Image: crown of flowers/thorns (biblical)
- ill- judging= Faulkland –> thorn –> pain–> destroy the bliss
- Wants sensible, calm
- criticises Lydia- Anti femi- shouldnt be striving for anything more than duty
- Feminist- last word, moral foresight
“happiness all rests on us”
epilogue focused on male and female relationships
- Sheridans voice through the voice of Julia
- Anitfem= only there for men
“Love gilds the scene, and women guide the plot”
Own life and marriage
