A Dolls House and Rossetti's Poetry
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- A Doll's House and Rossetti's Poetry
- Fantasy vs Reality
- Jhansi
- At first you set an indealised, mutually benefifical relationship
- As you unreavel, you realise that this is not the case
- Reality = unequal partners in marriage
- As you unreavel, you realise that this is not the case
- At first you set an indealised, mutually benefifical relationship
- Nora and Torvald
- Torvald is in love with the idea of his wife (fantasy)
- Treats her like a possession - reduces her humanity as a "skylark" and a "squirrel"
- Reality = they don't know each other at all and therefore their marriage ended.
- Treats her like a possession - reduces her humanity as a "skylark" and a "squirrel"
- Torvald is in love with the idea of his wife (fantasy)
- Jhansi
- Gender
- Roles in marriage
- Torvald and Nora
- Traditional roles; upholding stereotypes of the mid-to-late 1800s
- Nora gets Christmas gifts for her children that correspond to gender stereotypes
- Shows that gender expectations are taught from young
- Torvald and Nora
- Defying gender roles
- Kristine and Krogstad
- Form a team of two to survive in their harsh, unforgiving society
- No, Thank You, John
- Speaker of the poem happily declines the recipient (John) comedically
- John embodies men during the mid-to-late 1800s
- ...but more specially their toxic masculinity and the fact that they feel entitled to treat women as commodieis for marriage, especoally when arguing when the speaker turns down advances
- John embodies men during the mid-to-late 1800s
- Speaker of the poem happily declines the recipient (John) comedically
- Kristine and Krogstad
- Gender and Class
- Maude Clare: poor, lower class woman destined for an unfortunate life
- Thomas in Maude Clare - rich, upper class man destined for an unforunate destiny because his life choices (i.e. marriage) has already been made for him
- Anne-Marie, a poor, working-class woman, rejected by society had to give up her child to earn money by raise Nora (middle class)
- Torvald, a middle-class man is the most affluent character (in terms of income)
- most middle and upper class men were like this in the mid-to-late 1800s due to the patriarchy benefitting men financially, especially with the Napoleonic code.
- Torvald, a middle-class man is the most affluent character (in terms of income)
- Soeur Louise
- King Louis' mistress and lover (lower class)
- Loses everything when she loses him, and turns to God and nunnery afterwards
- retrospective account of love
- King Louis' mistress and lover (lower class)
- Maude Clare: poor, lower class woman destined for an unfortunate life
- Roles in marriage
- Self-actualisation
- Definition: Pure autonomy; being able to make your own decisions and having that state of true happiness
- Nora reaches true self-actualisation at the end upon having realised she needs to discover herself and the world around her
- Torvald would never reach true actualisation because he acts to seek approval from his reference figures and society at large
- Kristine finds self-actualisation upon realising that she's happiest when serving others and Krogstadt in particular, so she asks to cojoin him.
- Krogstadt finds self-actualisation after finding purpose within Kristine...he no longer has a grudge and doesn't even want to post the IOU anymore
- Kristine finds self-actualisation upon realising that she's happiest when serving others and Krogstadt in particular, so she asks to cojoin him.
- Torvald would never reach true actualisation because he acts to seek approval from his reference figures and society at large
- Nora reaches true self-actualisation at the end upon having realised she needs to discover herself and the world around her
- My Birthday relies on conditions of worth - the speaker's happiness relies on the dependence of the presence of God/another man
- Maude Clare made the active decision to gate-crash Thomas' wedding - at at that moment she felt this was her proudest moment
- Uphill is very optimistic - the idea of heaven creates a goal for the speaker to where they can be at their happiest...but they know they won't reach this in their current lifetime.
- Goblin Market
- Allegorical of many themes, but a particular one is (the temptation of) sex
- The two sisters reach self actualisation (or at least at their happiest) in the end when they are together and recall the story
- In order to reach that self-actualisation, Lizzie had to make the ultimate sacrifice to help Laura
- (1839) Christina volunteers at a Penitentiary, rehabilitating prostitutes.
- Lizzie sounds like "Christina", and in the poem, Lizzie is like Laura's saviour
- The two sisters reach self actualisation (or at least at their happiest) in the end when they are together and recall the story
- Allegorical of many themes, but a particular one is (the temptation of) sex
- Goblin Market
- Uphill is very optimistic - the idea of heaven creates a goal for the speaker to where they can be at their happiest...but they know they won't reach this in their current lifetime.
- Maude Clare made the active decision to gate-crash Thomas' wedding - at at that moment she felt this was her proudest moment
- Definition: Pure autonomy; being able to make your own decisions and having that state of true happiness
- Experimentation with form
- Naturalism in theatre is creating plays that present a mundane environment to the time period
- Ibsen founded this concept
- Aims to hold a mirror to real life situations, makes people consider how they react to such actions when placed in frornt of them
- Ibsen founded this concept
- Allegory
- Expressing complex moments and social issues in metaphorical form
- Goblin Market
- Completely different structure; almost like a short film
- Is vagueness means it can relate to many themes such as capitalism and sexuality
- Goblin Market
- Expressing complex moments and social issues in metaphorical form
- Naturalism in theatre is creating plays that present a mundane environment to the time period
- Reputation
- "Moral sickness" is a highly judgemental concept used to condemn those who fail to adhere to social norms
- Rank has little to look up to/lose when terminally ill
- Torvald's self-worth and reputation lies on financial security and status
- Nora condemns Rank's terminal illness by his father's past actions
- Krogstadt had his reputaiton ruined after having being caught committing Fraud
- Nora condemns Rank's terminal illness by his father's past actions
- Torvald's self-worth and reputation lies on financial security and status
- Rank has little to look up to/lose when terminally ill
- Maude Clare: status > love
- Maude Clare couldn't marry Thomas because it would not adhere to social norms
- Would've damaged Thomas' situation, despite the both being in love with each other once
- Nell also has to live up to social expectations (ie she is complicit), , but she is the biggest loser because she cannot compete for the love Thmas has for Maude Clare and she KNOWS of it too.
- Would've damaged Thomas' situation, despite the both being in love with each other once
- Maude Clare couldn't marry Thomas because it would not adhere to social norms
- "Moral sickness" is a highly judgemental concept used to condemn those who fail to adhere to social norms
- Social Attitudes
- Social Class - were like different species; they don't occupy the same place in the "food chain"
- Upper Class in the 1800s
- V wealthy; entitled; sees themselves as morally superior,; sees working class as morally inferior; have a duty to "set a good example"; "gentlemen"
- Upper Class in the 1800s
- Respectability
- Promoting a public persona was promoted in the 1850s, but your private life was v lowkey
- "Respectable"
- Honest and understanding; religious; gentlemanly/ladylike behaviour (strict etiquette); emotionally restrained; private
- "Scandalous"
- Argument and confrontation; hedonistic behaviour (having affairs, being drunk in public); sex outside marriage; anything seen as dishonest (whether illegal or not)
- Good character = rewards; bad behaviour = outcast
- Social Class - were like different species; they don't occupy the same place in the "food chain"
- Education for Working Class Children
- Not available all year round - kids sometimes worked
- Became compulsory/free until 1880
- Schools for the poor became increasingly common for boys and girls
- consisted of reading, writing, artithemetic
- School was partly charitable, partly fee-paying
- Literary Trends and Drama in the 1870s
- 1850s poetry
- End of Romantic Period; Freedom/beauty of nature/magic and mystery of the past; Alfred, Lord Tennyson embodied all of these
- Poetry had rigid rules about form
- Regular rhythm = rhyme; anything that deviated deemed "bad poetry"
- Rossetti inspired by Romanticism and the pre-Raphaelite brotherhood
- Feeling > beauty of the form; she only uses rhythm and rhyme when it best encapsulates the feeling of a poem
- Shakespeare, Opera = both not naturalistic (elated, poetic language with music)
- Verse drama/melodrama
- Highly emotional, often based on stories in popular press; often set in exotic locations
- Well-made plays
- Every character has scandalous secret dealings with the plot of other characters, revealed by plot twists
- Good characters don't deserve their reputations ruined
- At the end of the play, the characters' reputations are all rescued, but the bad characters' reputations are ruined
- Eugene Scribe
- 1850s poetry
- Fantasy vs Reality
- Education for middle-to-upper class men
- Access to unis and further education (legal training, medicine...)
- Private boarding schools
- A Doll's House and Rossetti's Poetry
- Fantasy vs Reality
- Jhansi
- At first you set an indealised, mutually benefifical relationship
- As you unreavel, you realise that this is not the case
- Reality = unequal partners in marriage
- As you unreavel, you realise that this is not the case
- At first you set an indealised, mutually benefifical relationship
- Nora and Torvald
- Torvald is in love with the idea of his wife (fantasy)
- Treats her like a possession - reduces her humanity as a "skylark" and a "squirrel"
- Reality = they don't know each other at all and therefore their marriage ended.
- Treats her like a possession - reduces her humanity as a "skylark" and a "squirrel"
- Torvald is in love with the idea of his wife (fantasy)
- Jhansi
- Gender
- Roles in marriage
- Torvald and Nora
- Traditional roles; upholding stereotypes of the mid-to-late 1800s
- Nora gets Christmas gifts for her children that correspond to gender stereotypes
- Shows that gender expectations are taught from young
- Torvald and Nora
- Defying gender roles
- Kristine and Krogstad
- Form a team of two to survive in their harsh, unforgiving society
- No, Thank You, John
- Speaker of the poem happily declines the recipient (John) comedically
- John embodies men during the mid-to-late 1800s
- ...but more specially their toxic masculinity and the fact that they feel entitled to treat women as commodieis for marriage, especoally when arguing when the speaker turns down advances
- John embodies men during the mid-to-late 1800s
- Speaker of the poem happily declines the recipient (John) comedically
- Kristine and Krogstad
- Gender and Class
- Maude Clare: poor, lower class woman destined for an unfortunate life
- Thomas in Maude Clare - rich, upper class man destined for an unforunate destiny because his life choices (i.e. marriage) has already been made for him
- Anne-Marie, a poor, working-class woman, rejected by society had to give up her child to earn money by raise Nora (middle class)
- Torvald, a middle-class man is the most affluent character (in terms of income)
- most middle and upper class men were like this in the mid-to-late 1800s due to the patriarchy benefitting men financially, especially with the Napoleonic code.
- Torvald, a middle-class man is the most affluent character (in terms of income)
- Soeur Louise
- King Louis' mistress and lover (lower class)
- Loses everything when she loses him, and turns to God and nunnery afterwards
- retrospective account of love
- King Louis' mistress and lover (lower class)
- Maude Clare: poor, lower class woman destined for an unfortunate life
- Roles in marriage
- Self-actualisation
- Definition: Pure autonomy; being able to make your own decisions and having that state of true happiness
- Nora reaches true self-actualisation at the end upon having realised she needs to discover herself and the world around her
- Torvald would never reach true actualisation because he acts to seek approval from his reference figures and society at large
- Kristine finds self-actualisation upon realising that she's happiest when serving others and Krogstadt in particular, so she asks to cojoin him.
- Krogstadt finds self-actualisation after finding purpose within Kristine...he no longer has a grudge and doesn't even want to post the IOU anymore
- Kristine finds self-actualisation upon realising that she's happiest when serving others and Krogstadt in particular, so she asks to cojoin him.
- Torvald would never reach true actualisation because he acts to seek approval from his reference figures and society at large
- Nora reaches true self-actualisation at the end upon having realised she needs to discover herself and the world around her
- My Birthday relies on conditions of worth - the speaker's happiness relies on the dependence of the presence of God/another man
- Maude Clare made the active decision to gate-crash Thomas' wedding - at at that moment she felt this was her proudest moment
- Uphill is very optimistic - the idea of heaven creates a goal for the speaker to where they can be at their happiest...but they know they won't reach this in their current lifetime.
- Goblin Market
- Allegorical of many themes, but a particular one is (the temptation of) sex
- The two sisters reach self actualisation (or at least at their happiest) in the end when they are together and recall the story
- In order to reach that self-actualisation, Lizzie had to make the ultimate sacrifice to help Laura
- (1839) Christina volunteers at a Penitentiary, rehabilitating prostitutes.
- Lizzie sounds like "Christina", and in the poem, Lizzie is like Laura's saviour
- The two sisters reach self actualisation (or at least at their happiest) in the end when they are together and recall the story
- Allegorical of many themes, but a particular one is (the temptation of) sex
- Goblin Market
- Uphill is very optimistic - the idea of heaven creates a goal for the speaker to where they can be at their happiest...but they know they won't reach this in their current lifetime.
- Maude Clare made the active decision to gate-crash Thomas' wedding - at at that moment she felt this was her proudest moment
- Definition: Pure autonomy; being able to make your own decisions and having that state of true happiness
- Experimentation with form
- Naturalism in theatre is creating plays that present a mundane environment to the time period
- Ibsen founded this concept
- Aims to hold a mirror to real life situations, makes people consider how they react to such actions when placed in frornt of them
- Ibsen founded this concept
- Allegory
- Expressing complex moments and social issues in metaphorical form
- Goblin Market
- Completely different structure; almost like a short film
- Is vagueness means it can relate to many themes such as capitalism and sexuality
- Goblin Market
- Expressing complex moments and social issues in metaphorical form
- Naturalism in theatre is creating plays that present a mundane environment to the time period
- Reputation
- "Moral sickness" is a highly judgemental concept used to condemn those who fail to adhere to social norms
- Rank has little to look up to/lose when terminally ill
- Torvald's self-worth and reputation lies on financial security and status
- Nora condemns Rank's terminal illness by his father's past actions
- Krogstadt had his reputaiton ruined after having being caught committing Fraud
- Nora condemns Rank's terminal illness by his father's past actions
- Torvald's self-worth and reputation lies on financial security and status
- Rank has little to look up to/lose when terminally ill
- Maude Clare: status > love
- Maude Clare couldn't marry Thomas because it would not adhere to social norms
- Would've damaged Thomas' situation, despite the both being in love with each other once
- Nell also has to live up to social expectations (ie she is complicit), , but she is the biggest loser because she cannot compete for the love Thmas has for Maude Clare and she KNOWS of it too.
- Would've damaged Thomas' situation, despite the both being in love with each other once
- Maude Clare couldn't marry Thomas because it would not adhere to social norms
- "Moral sickness" is a highly judgemental concept used to condemn those who fail to adhere to social norms
- Social Attitudes
- Social Class - were like different species; they don't occupy the same place in the "food chain"
- Upper Class in the 1800s
- V wealthy; entitled; sees themselves as morally superior,; sees working class as morally inferior; have a duty to "set a good example"; "gentlemen"
- Upper Class in the 1800s
- Respectability
- Promoting a public persona was promoted in the 1850s, but your private life was v lowkey
- "Respectable"
- Honest and understanding; religious; gentlemanly/ladylike behaviour (strict etiquette); emotionally restrained; private
- "Scandalous"
- Argument and confrontation; hedonistic behaviour (having affairs, being drunk in public); sex outside marriage; anything seen as dishonest (whether illegal or not)
- Good character = rewards; bad behaviour = outcast
- Social Class - were like different species; they don't occupy the same place in the "food chain"
- Education for Working Class Children
- Not available all year round - kids sometimes worked
- Became compulsory/free until 1880
- Schools for the poor became increasingly common for boys and girls
- consisted of reading, writing, artithemetic
- School was partly charitable, partly fee-paying
- Literary Trends and Drama in the 1870s
- 1850s poetry
- End of Romantic Period; Freedom/beauty of nature/magic and mystery of the past; Alfred, Lord Tennyson embodied all of these
- Poetry had rigid rules about form
- Regular rhythm = rhyme; anything that deviated deemed "bad poetry"
- Rossetti inspired by Romanticism and the pre-Raphaelite brotherhood
- Feeling > beauty of the form; she only uses rhythm and rhyme when it best encapsulates the feeling of a poem
- Shakespeare, Opera = both not naturalistic (elated, poetic language with music)
- Verse drama/melodrama
- Highly emotional, often based on stories in popular press; often set in exotic locations
- Well-made plays
- Every character has scandalous secret dealings with the plot of other characters, revealed by plot twists
- Good characters don't deserve their reputations ruined
- At the end of the play, the characters' reputations are all rescued, but the bad characters' reputations are ruined
- Eugene Scribe
- 1850s poetry
- Fantasy vs Reality
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