Themes
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- Created on: 27-05-14 19:42
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- Themes
- Love
- A.N. Kaul Society 'looks upon women as property and upon marriage as a business transaction'
- R: 'I don't know any business that you have to think at all ... you will promise to forget this fellow'
- R: 'Very sorry but business prevents its waiting on her'
- WofB: 'Were for myn profit and myn ese'
- Arranged Marriages
- Older generation dominates
- 'Give me your promise to love and to marry directly
- Contrast to WofB- no 'elderly parents' but married off at 12
- Contrast to WofB- no 'elderly parents' but married off at 12
- 'Give me your promise to love and to marry directly
- Older generation dominates
- Church believed sex was a sin
- 3 feminine estates
- A.N. Kaul Society 'looks upon women as property and upon marriage as a business transaction'
- Women
- Anti feminist- Women evil. Eve at apple getting everyone expelled from paradise
- WofB: Book of Wicked Wives
- Rebels against society and men
- Twists words: Story of Midas- tells wife.
- Yet just proving men right?
- 'I wolde han toold his conseil every deel'
- R: Less so evil, yet still rebelious
- Lydia rebels against society
- Lucy: deceives all characters
- 'Wear a mask of silliness with a pair of sharp eyes under it for my own interest'
- Twists words: Story of Midas- tells wife.
- Anti feminist- Women evil. Eve at apple getting everyone expelled from paradise
- Power/ Dominance/ Definance
- Men dominated society
- Women couldn't preach
- Preach St Paul said that 'Women must obey their husbands', fail to mention men should behave well towards husbands too
- Comedy as this is what W of B does! Twists Midas Story
- Women not really educated
- Older generation dominates
- 'Give me your promise to love and to marry directly
- 'Give me your promise to love and to marry directly
- In texts women mainly dominate
- COMEDY!
- Men dominated society
- Women couldn't preach
- Preach St Paul said that 'Women must obey their husbands', fail to mention men should behave well towards husbands too
- Comedy as this is what W of B does! Twists Midas Story
- Women not really educated
- Men dominated society
- 'Experience thou noon auctoritee'
- Uses religious texts to dominate
- Midas
- St Paul
- Uses religious texts to dominate
- 'Hadde hem hoolly in myn hond ... hadde me yeven al hir lond'
- Rhyming of 'hond' and 'lond'. Emphasises her defiance and how shes using them
- Julia dominates in very different way- very sophisticated
- 'Let us be as free as strangers'
- Contrast to WofB and Lydia
- 'Let us be as free as strangers'
- COMEDY!
- Defiance against expectations of society
- Wof B
- 5 husbands
- R:
- Lucy- defies expectations as a 'simpleton'
- Comedy in that deceives the educated
- Similar to WofB in sense that not expected... rich dominate like men
- Lydia defies expectations by choosing Ensign
- Similar to WofB in sense that she defies societies expectations
- Reading allows them both power over their men.
- Contrast to WofB in that does it for more attention? WofB to get rich- dependent.
- 'The Whole Duty of Man'. See elegance and delicacy in Lydia. Not quite 'an expert in al myn age' like Alisoun but very well read
- Reading allows them both power over their men.
- Contrast to WofB in that does it for more attention? WofB to get rich- dependent.
- Similar to WofB in sense that she defies societies expectations
- Lucy- defies expectations as a 'simpleton'
- Wof B
- Men dominated society
- Status
- Status and Family name very important
- 3 estates
- 3 feminine estates
- Sermon shows class of people preaching to
- Class and wealth influence education and who you marry etc
- Sense and Sensibility- Edward and Lucy/Elinor
- R:
- WofB appears higher status than is?
- Well travelled, educated,
- Education suggests a lot about status. Women weren't educated well in medieval times
- 'of clooth-making she hadde swich an haunt'
- 'Coverchiefs' which 'weyeden ten pound'
- Well travelled, educated,
- Lucy
- Opposite to knight. Called 'simple' but ironically not. Knight called a gentleman but ironically not
- Contrast to Mrs M- more educated/ high class yet language contrast
- Mrs M name: derived from french phrase 'mal a pros' meaning inappropriate
- The Knight
- 'gentilesse' shouldn't be 'descended out of old richesse'
- Status and Family name very important
- Love
- Comedy in fact people beaten at their own game
- Rebels against society and men
- Twists words: Story of Midas- tells wife.
- Yet just proving men right?
- 'I wolde han toold his conseil every deel'
- R: Less so evil, yet still rebelious
- Lydia rebels against society
- Lucy: deceives all characters
- 'Wear a mask of silliness with a pair of sharp eyes under it for my own interest'
- Twists words: Story of Midas- tells wife.
- Rebels against society and men
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