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
      • 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.
    • 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
      • 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
      • 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.
        • 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
    • 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
      • 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
    • 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
      • 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
    • 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
      • 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.
    • 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"
      • 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
    • 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
  • 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
        • 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.
      • 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
        • 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
        • 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.
          • 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
      • 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
        • 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
      • 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
        • 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
      • 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
        • 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.
      • 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"
        • 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
      • 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

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