Wilde/ Rossetti A04

Question 1

Angerson quote about power

Answer 1

‘Wilde explores the serious question of the relationship between political power and personal morality’

Question 2

Angerson quote about Mabel and Goring

Answer 2

‘Mabel Chiltern and Lord Goring are perhaps the closest to Wilde himself’

Question 3

Wilde on art

Answer 3

‘Life imitates art’

Question 4

Buzwell on the new woman

Answer 4

‘The New Woman and the Decadent were frequently linked’

Question 5

Wilde on appearances

Answer 5

‘It is only shallow people who do not judge by appearances’

Question 6

Cohen on Goring

Answer 6

When Goring says “no one should be judged entirely on their past” ‘it could well be Wilde speaking’

Question 7

Cohen on imperfection

Answer 7

‘Imperfection seems appropriate in a play that advocates the acceptance of mans imperfections’

Question 8

Gagnier on the audience

Answer 8

‘The sentimental interpretation allowed society to love the playwright who mocked it’

Question 9

Avery on religion

Answer 9

‘Her writings show her constantly interrogating religious ideas and beliefs’

Question 10

Quote on love and themes

Answer 10

‘The inconsistency of human love, the vanity of earthly pleasures, renunciation, individual worthiness and the perfection of divine love are recurring themes’

Question 11

Rossetti on gender

Answer 11

‘There is neither male nor female for we are all one’

Question 12

Pallazzo on fallen women

Answer 12

‘Rossetti has radically rewritten the fall of eve’

Question 13

Gilbert and Gilbar on renunciation

Answer 13

‘Rossetti banqueting on bitterness must bury herself alive in a coffin of renunciation’

Question 14

McGann on Goblin Market

Answer 14

‘Goblin market is a cry for a new social order’

Question 15

Gilbert and Gilbar

Answer 15

‘Singer of renunciation’