A Doll's House and Rossetti's Poetry
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- A Doll's House and Rossetti's Poetry
- Gender
- Masculinity
- Reputation
- Krogstad
- Torvald
- Maude Clare
- Reputation
- Femininity
- Sexuality
- Masculinity
- Reputation
- Krogstad
- Torvald
- Maude Clare
- Reputation
- Double standards of virginity and promiscuity
- Men's feeling of entitlement in being owed sex from women
- No, Thank You, John
- Men's feeling of entitlement in being owed sex from women
- Goblin Market
- Oppression and vulnerability of women
- Shut Out
- Oppression and vulnerability of women
- Masculinity
- Oppression and vulnerability of women
- Shut Out
- Empowered women
- Winter: My Secret
- No, Thank You, John
- Sexuality
- Roles in marriage
- Society's rules
- Crime
- Nora and Torvald
- Sacrificial role of women
- Christine
- "Goblin Market can be understood as a conventional parable of temptation, sacrifice and salvation." - Morden
- Both Nora and Maude Clare have to compromise their virtue for men
- Society's rules
- Defying gender roles
- Christine
- No, Thank You, John
- Female strength
- "Nora's flirtation with Rank is another indication of the more spirited woman beneath the convention-respecting surface" - Gray
- Mrs Linde forces the truth to come out and is the greatest voice of reason
- Masculinity
- Fantasy vs Reality
- Desire
- Soeur Louise continues to desire her old life and is forced into a new role by rejecting her old life which continues to force women to fit into society's standards
- Nora will still think of her past, but she no longer has the desire to fulfil her motherhood role as she 'slams the door shut' on her old life
- Temptation
- Vengeance
- Maude Clare
- Krogstad
- Nora's gluttony and spending habits
- Vengeance
- Dr Rank's unrequited love
- Freedom
- "Rossetti's poems encourage women to claim indepdence and agency" - Avery
- "Nora's actions are a way of reinforcing an individual's right - regardless of gender - to protect themselves" - Cron
- Self-determination
- Struggle through life's difficulties
- Up-Hill
- From the Antique
- Female strength
- "Nora's flirtation with Rank is another indication of the more spirited woman beneath the convention-respecting surface" - Gray
- Mrs Linde forces the truth to come out and is the greatest voice of reason
- Self-discovery
- Soeur Louise finds new life through religion
- Struggle through life's difficulties
- Deceit
- Romanticised retelling of real events
- In the Round Tower at Jhansi
- Romanticised retelling of real events
- Desire
- Self-determination
- Struggle through life's difficulties
- Up-Hill
- From the Antique
- Self-discovery
- Soeur Louise finds new life through religion
- Struggle through life's difficulties
- Society's rules
- Crime
- Experimenting with form
- Allegory
- In Goblin Market, Rossetti uses religious allegory and imagery of Christianity creating the Lizzie character as a figure of Jesus Christ
- Shift
- In Twice, the first half of the poem is about the narrator's hopeless love for a man before the shift in the second half, where she has replaced this with her love for God and rebels against society's expectations
- Rejection of society's expectations
- Nora and Maude Clare would have been considered liminal and dangerous to Victorian standards
- Both Nora and Maude Clare have to compromise their virtue for men
- Nora and Maude Clare would have been considered liminal and dangerous to Victorian standards
- Rejection of society's expectations
- In Twice, the first half of the poem is about the narrator's hopeless love for a man before the shift in the second half, where she has replaced this with her love for God and rebels against society's expectations
- Allegory
- Gender
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