English Literature

• King > Man > Woman
• Gonzalo = relativism (ideas of right and wrong differ from place to place)
• All events happen in 'one voyage' - a miracle - Can good be substained?
• Social Morality isn't a product of social class
• Animal instinct = attempting a coup against the ruling powers
• Columbus assumed superiority - saw people as potential resources and not allies
• Metatheatre - assures 'no suffering' in epilogue (soliloquy)
• 'Our Revels are now ended' - Shakespeare's retirement
• Prospero assumed power of god by forgiving charcters (omnipotent) Almost an Omniscient narrator
• Turns away from the power which corrupted others
• Storms - God's dissatisfaction
• Equilibrium - 'Calm seas'
• Aristotle: Three unities of time, place and action
• Surface Realism
• Jacobean audience = supersticious due to King's beliefs

• Songs = entertainment/ progression of plot/ exploration of characters
• Music = divine harmony, Antonio and Sebastian are outsiders
• Peace = 'heavenly music' or another agent of Prospero's control?
• Masques - rhyming couplets - celebration
• Opposing views = subjective experience judged by comparison
• New Testement: values of showing mercy / forgiveness
• Prospero never appologises to Caliban
• Cultural Hegemony
• Pathetic Fallacy: human emotions reflected in nature
• Magical Realism; innovative of Shakespeare

• Coleridge: 'The highest and lowest characters are brought together.'
• Coleridge: 'The poet has raised [Caliban] far above contempt.'
• Moulton: 'The gift of civilisation is turned into a curse.'
• Lamming: 'Caliban is [Prospero's] convert, colonised by language and excluded by language.'
• Schlegel: 'Caliban 'always speaks in blank verse.'
• Said: 'You cannot continue to victimize someone else just because you yourself were a victim once - There has to be a limit.'
• Fanon: 'The oppressed will always believe the worst about themselves'

1.1:

• What cares these roarers for the name of king?
• Incharitable dog

1.2:

• O, I have suffered/with those that I saw suffer
• Rapt in secret studies
• Does thou attend me?
• Thou art inclined to sleep
• Hell is emty and all the devils are here!
• Hast thou forgot/ That foul witch Sycorax
• This island's mine, by Sycorax my mother
• If you be maid or no?

2.1:

• My son is lost and in my rate [Claribel] too
• You rub the sore when you should bring the plaster

2.2:

• I prithee, be my God
• We will inherit here

3.1:

• I am your wife, if you will marry me

3.2:

• Servant monster
• Seize his books
• The isle is full of noises - sounds and sweet airs

3.3:

• You are three men of sin
• They now are in my power

4.1:

• We are such stuff as dreams are made on

5.1: 

• I'll break my staff
• Sebastian... I do forgive thee, unnatural though thou art
• Violate the honour of my child
• How beauteous mankind is!
• These are not natural events

• Eloped with Miss Linley at 20
• Omniscient narrative
• Sheridan's grandfather had strict ideas about education like Sir Anthony Absolute
• Lydia doesn't want to be the object of her suitor's needs
• Sensibility: react emotionally; experience over knowledge. Reaction to rationality
• Lydia's love of sentimental novels suggests she won't be easily controlled
• Comedy of Manners: life, ideals and manners of upper class society is humorously depicted
• Public life involved 'surfaces' of clothes and hair
• Restoration Comedy: wealthy, young woman falls for a young often penniless soldier
• Age of Sensibility: 1745-1780

• Kaul: Sheridan is concerned with the problem of a woman's freedom in society
• Boaden: Faulkland expresses... the author's own passion for Miss Linley

• The Delicate Distress
• He expects every thought... to move in unison with his
• [Lydia] might reprehend what she is saying
• Let him object if he dare
• (altering her manner)
• I fear for... her life
• Would you have me tell her a lie?
• How charming will poverty be with him!
• I was afraid he would never give me an opportunity
• I am sure I hated your poor dear uncle before marriage
• Men are all barbarians!
•  I used to dress so badly
• We had never had a quarrel
• Vowed I’d never see him more
• Myself his debtor

• The Great Schism led to the questioning of the church
• Chaucer represnts part of a continuing tradition
• Iambic pentameter and rhyming couplets, closest to natural speech
• Unreliable narrator, dramatic monologue
• Prologue is nearly three times the tale
• Patriarchal society
• Experience grants authority
• Griselda in 'The Clerks Tale' is an example of an ideal
• Men = sinners (Knight), Women = wise and forgiving
• Anti-feminist - proves Jerome right, resembles enemy
• Power is important, doesn't offer equality
• St Paul: the wife owes husband too < Chaucer's view?
• Impressive learning without education
• Hag = fey (stock figure from Arthurian romance)
• Moral: males shouldn't take advantage of females
• Avante-garde: rejects norms Amplification: larger than life
• Hyberbole: exaggeration

• Jill Mann: 'The just response to male 'oppressioun'.
• Kittredge: Sequence of tales which forms a closely-knit exploration of marriage.
• Marxism: Challenges hierarchy.
• Dryden: 'The father of English poetry'.
• Jovinian: The state of marriage is equal to virginity.
• Jerome: Virginity is more important than marriage - best way to manage lust. Women invite lust and degradation.
• Hebron: An openness to multiple readings is the only way to appreciate her complex personality.

• Experience
• Auctoritee
• I nil envye no virginitee
• Twelve yeer was of age
• Paye his dette
• Hooly in myn hond / Bridel in myn hond
• Swere and lyen as a womman kan
• Thou seist
• Deceit, weping, spinning (anti-feminist. ironic)
• Al is for to selle
• Oon... moste bowen
• Fyn scarlet reed
• Not bigonne
• My fifthe... I took for love and no richesse
• Janglaresse
• Wikked wives
• Womman was the los of al mankinde

• I lay as I were dead
• Al was fals
• Flour is goon
• Rafte hire maidenhed
• Women desiren sovereignetee
• Maistree
• Lusty bacheler
• Wyf, maide, widwe
• My dettour
• Thre were goode
• Of any oother had delit
• Olde, loothy (loathly lady: archetype of Medieval Lit)
• Joly clerk Jankin
• Bele chose (colloquial euphemism)