AO5 Flashcards
Heather Sh___tte said what in 2014?
Shanette
the external world belonged to the husband and the internal to the wife
_____ Shanette said what in 2014?
Heather
her primary duty was to look after her husband and children, putting their needs ad welfare before her own
Christopher Hill said what?
Milton specifically compared the marriage contract to the political contract between king and people
What does Wrighton say in English Society 1580-1680 (1982)
women of the upper classes as ‘more ornamental and idle’
what does White say about the Duchess’ ability to remain stoic?
“She is “the Duchess of Malfi still”, revealing patience stoicism and accepting complete responsibility for her actions.”
What does Theodora Janokski (1990) say about the play?
- the play ‘is clearly concerned with questions of gender ideology’
what does Thoedora Janokski say about the irregularity of the play?
Irregularity:
- ‘the Duchess becomes an uneasy and threatening figure’ in the ‘double position of wife and ruler’
- ‘She challenges Jacobean society’s views regarding the representation of the female body and woman’s sexuality.’
- ‘The Duchess is further represented as manifesting her political authority by engaging in an ‘irregular’ marriage’
- ‘the Duchess can be viewed as a subversive character’
what does Janowski say about punishment?
Punishment:
- ‘Ultimately, the Duchess’ marriage and sexual politics are represented as so revolutionary that she must be punished for her actions.’
what does Theo- Jan say about family?
On Renaissance wives:
- ‘We read the family as a Renaissance dynastic unit.’
- ‘The nature of the Renaissance dynastic marriage served almost totally to objectify the woman.’
- ‘The Duchess is represented as being radically different from the traditional picture of the Renaissance wife.’
John Martin created what painting at what time
John Martin’s painting addressing his legions in 1825 shows Satan to be postioned on top of a cliff, all his subjects beneath him, grasping a staff with others protecting him behind. This shows the great influence he had over his subjects.
Agarval, a 21st critic
Satan’s outstanding verbal communication
Zimmerman: Eve ‘wants to…
‘redress’ or restructure their union because it impinges on her growing independence.
Fisher: The reader has ‘participated…
in something more than a literary experience, since this poem is concerned with his very salvation’.
Cecil: Webster depicts ‘evil in the…
most extreme form as far more powerful than good’.
Pullman: ‘Suppose the fall should be…
celebrated and not deplored?
Marr: TDOM is a ‘story of jealousy,…
deceit and murder’.
Linda Woodbridge (2002): ‘a cautionary tale about…
widows, gluttony and lust’.
McEvoy: 17th century viewed ‘contented sexual…
relationship as a gift from God’.
Worrall: Eden is ‘no pious garden of self-abnegation…
and honest toil but a xanadu of luxuriance and exotic pleasure’.
Worrall: The Tree of Knowledge has…
‘hedonistic properties’.
Fyre: After the Fall, the heirachy implanted by God…
in the soul is not merely upset, but reversed’
Dollimore: Malcontents are ‘at once agent…
and victim of social corruption’.
Mead: ‘Adam and Eve’s stoic bravery comes…
only after they have been promised salvation’.
Russell: ‘stoics point that cruelty and injustice afford the…
sufferers the best opportunities for the exercise of virtue’.
