Theme of Gender
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- Created on: 16-04-19 14:05
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- Gender
- A Doll's House
- 'My little songbird'-
- Nora is constantly patronised by Torvald
- 'A man can handle this sort of thing so much better than a mere woman'
- Shows that Nora does not think of herself as clever because she is a woman
- ' Almost like being a man.'
- Nora describes that doing work was like being a man, showing the men and women's rooted places in society
- 'I didn't really see how I could justify declining his offer'
- Mrs Linde didn't love her husband but had to marry him to take care of her family
- 'My little songbird'-
- Rossetti Poems
- Maude Clare
- The one male character in this poem says the least out of everyone
- The poem is mainly dominated by Maude Clare- she described as a 'queen' in comparison to Nell, who's described as a 'village maid'
- This poem defies societal norms by having women be the dominating characters
- No, thank you John
- defies societal norms by the woman refusing to marry the man who has proposed to her
- patronising and sarcastic language
- From the Antique
- 'I wish I were a man'- not a feminist view
- Goblin Market
- Two sisters supporting each other rather than relying on men
- However, at the end they both get married and have children, conforming to societal norms
- Maude Clare
- A Doll's House
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