Key Quotation (LITA3)
- Created by: megansw
- Created on: 13-06-17 19:00
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- Key quotes and texts
- Passion and restraint
- Emma, Jane Austen, 1815
- Early feminist novel, Romantic period themes of moderation, poses questions of independent women
- 'why not seize the pleasure at once? How often is happiness destroyed by preparation.'
- Emma, Jane Austen, 1815
- Love and betrayl
- The Painted Veil. W.S. Maugham, 1925
- 'to me our love was everything and you were my whole life. It is not very pleasant to realise that to you it was just an episode' -kitty to charles after she asks him to marry her
- Modern, shows a divorce/infidelity
- Love and death
- Christina Rossetti, Remember, 1862
- 'remember me when you are gone away, gone far away into the silent land; when you can no more hold me by the hand.'
- 'Better by far you should forget and smile Than that you should remember and be sad.'
- Sonnet form, victorian period, unusual for a woman to write poetry
- Male/Female love
- Oranges are not the only fruit, jeanette winterson, 1985
- 'she said they dealt in unnatural passions'
- Buildingsroman: coming of age novel, deals with homosexuality vs religious family
- Disappointment in Love
- Talking in bed, Phillip larkin 1964
- 'Talking in bed ought to be easiest, lying together there goes back so far. An emblem of two people being honest.'
- 'words at once true and kind, not untrue and not unkind'
- Typical post modern poet, surface attitudes to love, Larkin has many varied experiences with love/ talks about infidelity
- Love and society
- Our Mutual Friend, Charles Dickens, 1865
- 'My reputation stands quite high and would be a shield for yours.'
- Typical attitudes of chivalry and patriarchy from the victorian period. Contrast between rich and poor.
- Cruelty of love
- Carol Ann Duffy, The Devil's Wife, Post Modern
- Known modern day feminism poet, challenges basic attitudes to everyday life.
- 'He bit my breast. His language was foul. He entered me.'
- 'He made me bury a doll.'
- Love and family
- King Lear, Shakespeare, 1605
- 'I love your majesty according to my bond, no more nor less'
- 'which one of you shall we say does love us most that we our largest bond may extend'
- Independent female character challenging family, focus on money and patriarchy (most Shakespeare)
- Idealised love
- Sonnet 116, Shakespeare, 1609
- 'love is not love which alters when alteration finds'
- 'it is an ever fixed mark'
- Everlasting love, divorce wasn't a thing, love was key in these times
- Brotherhood
- Birdsong, Sebastian Faulks, 1993
- 'I would trust them to breathe for me, to pump my blood with their hearts.'
- War based novel, uses flashbacks to present contrast of modern life and war-zone. Brotherhood amongst soldiers and desperate love are key themes.
- Passion and restraint
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