Context Quotes - Women
Mindmap of quotations on the theme of women for the context part of the exam.
- Created by: R_S_E
- Created on: 05-04-14 12:21
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- WOMEN
- PROSE
- Tess
- "blood red ray"
- Describing / foreshadowing Alec's role in her life - first meeting
- Red imagery, death connotations, metaphor of staining (double standard)
- "caught...like a bird in a springe"
- How she is described when trying to refuse Angel's proposal
- Motif of bird as freedom, entrapment, simile
- "blood red ray"
- Jane Eyre
- "Women feel just as men feel"
- Talking of marriage to Rochester
- Comparison, rebellion against social/gender restraints, parallel phrasing emphasising their equality
- "Women feel just as men feel"
- Tess
- PLAY
- AWoNI
- "Women kneels so gracefully; men don't"
- Metaphor / symbolic for how women will always be inferior to men; antithesis between the natural positions of men and women; reinforces the idea that women will always be subordinate
- "A man of no importance"
- Reversal of roles suggesting the stigma of being a fallen woman has been over come
- Women’s superiority over man
- "You fence divinely"
- Lord Illingworth to Mrs Allonby
- "Women kneels so gracefully; men don't"
- Metaphor / symbolic for how women will always be inferior to men; antithesis between the natural positions of men and women; reinforces the idea that women will always be subordinate
- "Women kneels so gracefully; men don't"
- Battle connotations / metaphor; extended metaphor of relationships being an ongoing conflict with neither gender having the upper hand
- Lord Illingworth to Mrs Allonby
- "Yes, my love"
- Female dominance, repeated
- "Women kneels so gracefully; men don't"
- An Ideal Husband
- "Why do [women] place [men] on monstrous pedestals?"
- Sir Robert's monologue to Lady Chiltern after she is told by Mrs Cheveley of his secret past causing her to reject him
- Questions gender roles, melodramatic, contrast as it is directed towards imperfect love
- "Why do [women] place [men] on monstrous pedestals?"
- AWoNI
- POETRY
- Patmore, The Angel in the House
- "Her countenance Angelical"
- Religious imagery / spirituality of the women
- "In mind and manners how discreet"
- Alliteration, submissive to her husband
- "Out bragging Nature's boast the rose"
- Personifies nature, makes her superior to nature - on a pedestal that is above everything
- ‘The concord of her
lips and heart’
- What she feels and what she speaks is in harmony
- Antithesis
- "In mind and manners how discreet"
- Alliteration, submissive to her husband
- "In mind and manners how discreet"
- "Her countenance Angelical"
- Patmore, The Angel in the House
- PROSE
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