People are naturally inclined towards vain and selfish behaviour - consider vanity and selfishness 

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  • People are naturally inclined towards vain and selfish behaviour - consider vanity and selfishness
    • 50% = context,    25% = comparison, 12.5% = LFS 12.5 = interpretations
    • 2. forges her father's signature on the loan paper from Krogstad which was taken out to save the life of her husband, Torvald.  Antithesis of selfish
      • society may regard this as selfish. Going against "bourgeois respectability" where women must conform to the value consensus of society
        • Nora can be seen as having characteristics of a new woman. The New Woman pushed the limits set by male-dominated society. Selfishnesses may be neccessary for Nora
          • Also seen in No Thank You John. An interpretation is that her rejection of "John" is selfish - "let bygones be bygones" But this is neccessary in rejecting earthly pleasures. Have to be selfish to be selfless for God
            • Rossetti herself was a devout anglocatholic. saving herself from God, renouncing from earthly vanities,
              • Christina Rossetti fell in love twice in her life. The first time with James Collinson, then later with Charles Cayley. engaged but rejected earthly pleasures
              • "Rossetti's speakers demonstrate both an awareness of, and resistance to, those social and political expectations which define acceptable roles for women"
          • highly sensual woman with a sense of vanity and a determination to achieve her goals - escaping her bourgeois identity thrust and forced upon her by society
    • 1. we must look at definition of vanity - excessive pride in or admiration of one's own appearance or achievements. Selfishness - lacking consideration for other people
    • 3. Rossetti rejects earthly vanities in "soeur Louise de la Misericorde". Links earthly "desire" to vanity
      • poem set in historical 17th France, centering around Austere catholic movement which encouraged renunciation - living in religious orders. Rejecting vanity
        • Nora comes to realises that she desires to be herself. Proves impossible unless she leaves restricted role of "squanderbird"- iconoclastic, religion futile
    • 4. Helmer in particular can be described as the epitome of vanity. Makes himself appear better by putting others around him down e.g. refers to Krogstad as a "starving quill driver" dig at Krogstad's position as a clerk. and his sense of pride in terms of Krogstad, his child-wife, his job
      • Torvald of Per Mattsson is certainly an egotist, but he is also very much a banker on the rise and someone who is fiercely protective of his image. - Gussow (1991)
        • Goblin men driving force of vanity of earthly pleasures. "come buy, come buy"
      • vanity of the patriarchal context of both texts and how this social hierarchy perhaps encouraged or created vanity in the male society.
      • Nora sees her husband for what he is—a selfish. She reminds him that no marriage can be built on inequality and announces her intention of leaving his house forever. Torvald cannot believe his ears and pleads with her to remain, but she declares she is going to try to become a reasonable human being, to understand the world—in short, to become a woman, not a doll to flatter Torvald’s selfish vanity. She goes out and, with irrevocable finality, slams the door of her doll house behind her.
  • Tarantella, that Nora used to please the vanity and the fantasies of her husband.  She is content to live in this doll house 
    • The Tarantella was a wild southern Italian dance, generally danced by a couple or line of couples. mythology of tarantism suggests that she is dancing in order to rid herself of a deadly poison. dance futile Torvald consumed by selfishness, does not forgive her until it is too late
      • speaker in echo is desperate for her loved one to come back "come to men in the silence of the night" similar to Torvald's longing and the sexual gratification from Nora's tarantella. vanity of earthly love as somewhat toxic
    • "a play so simple in its actions and so every day in its dress" - Bogh. Naturalism. characters can be studied through their relationships to their surroundings
      • People are naturally inclined towards vain and selfish behaviour - consider vanity and selfishness
        • 50% = context,    25% = comparison, 12.5% = LFS 12.5 = interpretations
        • 2. forges her father's signature on the loan paper from Krogstad which was taken out to save the life of her husband, Torvald.  Antithesis of selfish
          • society may regard this as selfish. Going against "bourgeois respectability" where women must conform to the value consensus of society
            • Nora can be seen as having characteristics of a new woman. The New Woman pushed the limits set by male-dominated society. Selfishnesses may be neccessary for Nora
              • Also seen in No Thank You John. An interpretation is that her rejection of "John" is selfish - "let bygones be bygones" But this is neccessary in rejecting earthly pleasures. Have to be selfish to be selfless for God
                • Rossetti herself was a devout anglocatholic. saving herself from God, renouncing from earthly vanities,
                  • Christina Rossetti fell in love twice in her life. The first time with James Collinson, then later with Charles Cayley. engaged but rejected earthly pleasures
                  • "Rossetti's speakers demonstrate both an awareness of, and resistance to, those social and political expectations which define acceptable roles for women"
              • highly sensual woman with a sense of vanity and a determination to achieve her goals - escaping her bourgeois identity thrust and forced upon her by society
        • 1. we must look at definition of vanity - excessive pride in or admiration of one's own appearance or achievements. Selfishness - lacking consideration for other people
        • 3. Rossetti rejects earthly vanities in "soeur Louise de la Misericorde". Links earthly "desire" to vanity
          • poem set in historical 17th France, centering around Austere catholic movement which encouraged renunciation - living in religious orders. Rejecting vanity
            • Nora comes to realises that she desires to be herself. Proves impossible unless she leaves restricted role of "squanderbird"- iconoclastic, religion futile
        • 4. Helmer in particular can be described as the epitome of vanity. Makes himself appear better by putting others around him down e.g. refers to Krogstad as a "starving quill driver" dig at Krogstad's position as a clerk. and his sense of pride in terms of Krogstad, his child-wife, his job
          • Torvald of Per Mattsson is certainly an egotist, but he is also very much a banker on the rise and someone who is fiercely protective of his image. - Gussow (1991)
            • Goblin men driving force of vanity of earthly pleasures. "come buy, come buy"
          • vanity of the patriarchal context of both texts and how this social hierarchy perhaps encouraged or created vanity in the male society.
          • Nora sees her husband for what he is—a selfish. She reminds him that no marriage can be built on inequality and announces her intention of leaving his house forever. Torvald cannot believe his ears and pleads with her to remain, but she declares she is going to try to become a reasonable human being, to understand the world—in short, to become a woman, not a doll to flatter Torvald’s selfish vanity. She goes out and, with irrevocable finality, slams the door of her doll house behind her.

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