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1
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“She has a lapdog that eats out of gold. She feeds her parrot with small pearls”

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  • Hyperbole of wealth

- At this point- dramatic irony- the audience knows the secrets before the characters as revealed by the Fag

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"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"
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Secret desire of love

  • passion
  • suffering
  • drama
  • Knight in shining armour
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“Since she has discovered her own frailty, she is become more suspicious of mine”

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  • Hypocrisy

- Hamlet reference- “frailty thy name is woman”- give in to their sexual desires

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“I wrote a letter to myself”

“put myself in a violent passion”

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Theme: deception

dramatic- doubling- pretended to recieve a letter

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“and that is what I have determined to do, ever since I knew the penalty”

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-in love with the idea of an unconventional love

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“he expects every thought and emotion of his mistress to move in unison with his”

“obligation”

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-Anti sentimentality

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7
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"Fling"
"Throw"
"Put"
"Thrust"
"Cram"
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Imperative verbs-powerful

-Hide her desires

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“Miss, with ‘preference’ and ‘aversion’? They don’t become a young woman”

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-duty

contrast of older and younger generation

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9
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“natural consequence of teaching girls to read”

“black art as their alphabet”

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Hyperbole- black magic

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10
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“evergreen tree of diabolical knowledge!”

“fond of handling the leaves will long for the fruit at last”

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circulating library paralleled with tree of temptation, Eve.

Knowledge= the serpent

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“she might not misspell and mispronounce world so shamefully as some girls do”

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Irony- proving Absolutes point

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“Let him object if he dare!”

“enforce”

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Know they’re losing control?

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13
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Lucy- “commend me to a mask of silliness”

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Double

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14
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“You throw a large stake, but, losing you could stake and throw again”

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Unlike Faulkland- Jack can roll again and get another
financial lexis
love is a game

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15
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“I fear for her spirits- her health- her life”

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Tone of performance= anxious and intense

-Mocking the sentimental

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16
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“squallante”, “rumblante” and “quiverante”

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Made up- sound more knowledgable

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“temperately healthy” “plaintively gay”

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oxymoron- contradictory- what Faulkland wants

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18
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“monkey led” “palming puppies”

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  • attitudes to country men

- alliteration- hands everywhere

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“od’s triggers and flints”

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military language- foreshadows duel

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Absolute: “Spoke like a man”

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  • masculinity vs WOB (what it means to be a woman)
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Sir Anthony “I grow old and infirm”

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-pity-try to persuade Jack

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22
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“Pardon me, sir , I never saw you look more strong and hearty”
vs
“I am so strong and hearty, I may continue to plague”

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Persona dependent on person

-Contradiction- metaphor- awareness what Jack thinks.

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23
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“sir” “my wife, sir”

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-repetition- panic over marriage

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24
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“The fortune is saddled with a wife”

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autonomy for a perfect marriage

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25
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“you must take it with the livestock on it, as it stands!”

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antifeminism , Inferior

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"decline the purchase"
"business"
"foreclose"
"redeeming"
"exchange"
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financial lexis

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27
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“I cannot obey you”

“I cannot obey”

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Repetition- shock

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28
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“I give you six hours and a half to consider this”

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ultimatum similar to the WOB

  • movement between aristocracy and independence
  • WOB-not willing to marry the old hag for money
29
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“little girl”

“dear creature”

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Sir Lucius- addresses women= inferior

30
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Sir Lucius to Lucy “great mistress of language”

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irony

31
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“If I did not want money I’d steal your mistress and her fortune with a great deal of pleasure”

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monetary lexis- no interest in Lydia, only his own desires

32
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“Never- never- never- never”

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King Lear reference- Shakespearean influence

hyperbolised for comic effect

33
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“I would not have touched anything old or ugly to gain an empire”

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Sir Anthony is a hypocrite

34
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“cooler judgement”

“I am conscious of it, yet I cannot correct myself”

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Soliloquy- private inner conflict

Neurotic: comedy out of sentimental comedy

35
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“The mutual tear that steals down the cheek of parting lovers is a compact that no smile shall live there until they meet again”

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-hyperbole- overly romanticised.

36
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“The door is fastened! Julia! My soul!”

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Faulkland- soliloquy- over dramatised

37
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“how little resolution there is in woman!”

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changing emotions in soliloquy

-doesn’t realise the impact he has on Julia- self centered.

38
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[Mrs Malaprop gives Captain Absolute the letter]

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Act 3 S3= fine example of comic deception

  • dramatic irony
  • successfully able to manipulate both Lydia and Mrs Malaprop.
39
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“pineapple of politeness”

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Malapropism- georgian value

40
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“As for the old weather-beaten she-dragon who guards you”

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  • dual character

- parallels- Wife, Hag, Fairytale structure.

41
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“But we trifle with our precious moments”

“I may rescue her from undeserved persecution”

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-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”

42
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“lying don’t become a young woman”

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attitudes to women.

43
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“But he has given me no provocation”

“Ay, we fight to prevent any misunderstanding”

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-mockery of duels

44
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“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!

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  • repetition- mockery of georgian values.

- ridiculous notion of honour

45
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“Do everything in a mild and agreeable manner”

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  • 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”
46
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[Bob Acres gives Captain Absolute the challenge]

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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

47
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[Lydia Languish looks around by degrees]

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Metaphor- gradually has to see the reality

48
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“didn’t know her own mind”

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-class and reputation- Jack further manipulations and challenges her pride

49
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“it runs in the blood of our family!”

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justification for male behaviour

50
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“quarrel genteelly”

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oxymoron

51
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“When her love eye was fixed on me, t’other her eye of duty , was finely obliqued”

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Eye metaphor- love vs duty

52
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[Enter Faulkland,muffled up in a riding coat]

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stage direction
visual comedy
new persona

53
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“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”

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  • Julia= sentimental
  • Relationshoip reflects Lydia’s books
  • personal pronoun: means it
  • Romeo and Juliet- star crossed lovers
54
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“seal of duty to an act of love”

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vs Lydia

55
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“by bearing your infirmities wuth gentleness and resignation”

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opposite to the WOB- good wife

-love and duty

56
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“urges sensibility to madness”

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King Lear reference- only in madness you can see clearly

57
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(Aside) I will not accuse Faulkland to a sister

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loyal

58
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"coldest knights in January"
"garden"
"cough so pathetically"
vs
"flimsy" "simpering"
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-coldness of society and rejection
-Romeo and Juliet imagery
vs
Language= boring/normal/unromantic

59
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“Edge in a word or two every now and then about my honour”

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Burlesque

-inbred honour vs feinged honour

60
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“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!”

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Personification

  • valour= personal courage in battle
  • using it as a shield
61
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“fight to oblige Sir Lucius”

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fulfils Faulklands desires

62
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“O, my little angel”

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Love towards Lydia

63
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“I will support my claim against any man whatever”

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romantic love

64
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“I’ll give you my Delia into the bargain”

“Here will you make your fortune?”

A

financial lexis- trading

WOB and Old Hag - has money

65
Q

“Men are all barbarians”

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feminist

66
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“unfading garland of modest, hurtless flowers”

“ill-judging passion” “whose thorn offends them”

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  • 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
67
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“happiness all rests on us”

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epilogue focused on male and female relationships

  • Sheridans voice through the voice of Julia
  • Anitfem= only there for men
68
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“Love gilds the scene, and women guide the plot”

A

Own life and marriage

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