Use of the past Eliot and Rhys

Question 1

Quote 1 from lit (Eliot)

Answer 1

“Sweet Thames, run softly, till I end my song.” Comes from Prothalamion by Spencer (1596), which celebrates marriage along the Thames

Question 2

Quote 2 from lit (Eliot)

Answer 2

“When lovely woman stoops to folly…” Comes from The Vicar of Wakefield (1766) by Goldsmith. Seduced and in love, only option to solve guilty sin is death.

Question 3

Crit and how fits, Who?

Answer 3

SMITH: This “build[ing of] a timeless myth in a modern setting”
IDEA THAT WHAT TIRESIAS SEES HERE HAS BEEN SEEN BEFORE AGAIN AND AGAIN, ACTS HAVE NOT CHANGED, BUT ATTITUDE

Question 4

Past lit in rhys

Answer 4

Nana (Zola 1890) and
Maudie says, “I bet you a man writing a book about a tart tells a lot of lies.”
“dark, blurred words going on endlessly”
Stresses that her desire is madness and destroys men.
(9th in Les Rougon-Macquart, Naturalist, “showing how the race is modified by the environment”)

Question 5

RHYS CRIT

Answer 5

Artherton: expose of the way that women are imprisoned by patriarchal oppression and gender specific behaviour.