Presentation of the sexes in ARWAV, The Scrutiny and The Ruined Maid
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- Authors presentation of the sexes
- A Room with a View
- Women are selfish
- George Emerson's cries of "I love you"
- Despite this Lucy continues to stifles her love
- Women are selfish
- Doesn't want to deal with consequences
- Contrasts George's belief that he "can't live without her"
- Lucy adamant that George is "nothing to her"
- Contrasts George's belief that he "can't live without her"
- Despite this Lucy continues to stifles her love
- Forster teases readers about Lucy changing
- The kiss at the end of chapter 6
- Phaethon's (the radiant one) presence foreshadows what was to come as he leads Lucy to George
- Exclaims "Courage and love"
- Helps her see the "view was forming"
- Exclaims "Courage and love"
- Phaethon's (the radiant one) presence foreshadows what was to come as he leads Lucy to George
- George sees Lucy as one who "fell out of heaven"
- The kiss at the end of chapter 6
- The Scrutiny
- Men are selfish
- Refers to his lover as 'Lady'
- She's of little or no value to him
- Very generic, she's common and maybe he's done it before.
- "Lady it is already morn"
- Implies one night of passion is enough, he wants to move on
- Answers questions he poses to his partner
- Leaves her voiceless
- "If when i have loved my round, thou provest pleasant she... i laden will return to thee
- He'll return to her if she's 'better than the other women he's slept with
- "If when i have loved my round, thou provest pleasant she... i laden will return to thee
- Leaves her voiceless
- It's a "fond impossibility" for them to live happily ever after
- "I must all other Beauties wrong"
- Staying with her would be wronging all other 'beauties'
- "I must all other Beauties wrong"
- Refers to his lover as 'Lady'
- Men are selfish
- The Ruined Maid
- Fallen women
- Does not specify who the 'ruined maid is'
- Repetition of 'ruined' emphasises how Victorian societies treated 'fallen women' as outcasts
- Alternatively, it could be sarcasm towards the 1st speaker
- She doesn't care how she's seen by others
- Contrast Lucy, she was ready to marry the wrong man because she was so focused on how society would see her
- She doesn't care how she's seen by others
- Alternatively, it could be sarcasm towards the 1st speaker
- Dramatic dialogue
- Fallen women
- A Room with a View
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