Love for a dollhouse and Rossetti Flashcards
1
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context for love
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- In Victorian era, wives were seen as possessions to their husbands
- Rossetti had rejected three proposals, two because of conflicts in religion that she did not want to change, she did not want to be owned by someone
- Rossetti worked for a women refuge and did not like the double standards for men and women
2
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Love is possession
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- Torvald treats Nora more like a pet then a wife
- ” I would never dream of doing anything you didn’t want me to” - Nora to Torvald
- ## “I have been your doll wife, just as at home I was daddy doll child”
3
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the fallen women
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- Maude Claire loved Thomas but he left her making her a fallen women, this has made her cold
- “take my share of a fickle heart”
4
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links between love and sex
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- Laura trades a piece of her (her hair) in exhacnge for fruit, symbolic for prostitution
- Nora constantly has to sdueuce tovlard for money and to manipulate him with her sexuallitly
- Nora confuses tovlards desire for her as love smiler to how Laura sees the fruit as a amazing but in reliably it is toxic
5
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the safety in love
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- Nell decides to back up Thomas despite Maude Claires warnings “ this is a safer type of love where it works on respect and honesty, Nell knows what she is going into
- Similar to Krogstad and Mrs Linde as she takes him back knowing about his past and they are well suited for each over
- “I’ll love him till he loves me best
6
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secrets in Love
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- Nora gets very excited that she has managed to keep her secret from Tovalrd but is afraid of what will happen if he finds out
- In winter my secret the narrator seems joyful and teasing of her secret but in reality she thinks it is never safe to revile it
- the joy of having something that they posses
7
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the rejection of love
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- Nora rejects Der Ranks advances
- No thank you John is all about the reaction of advances for men
8
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True love
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- Noras love for her children is true as she consrtnalty worries for them
- The love In a birthday
- the round tower
