AO5 Flashcards
(18 cards)
What does Urban say about Nora’s religion?
“religion of Torvald”
What does Brittany Wright say about the symbol or birds?
“caged bird becomes the symbol of female entrapment”
What does Kate Millett say about convention?
“convention caged [Nora] within a child’s toy structure”
What does Ronald Gray say about convention?
Nora is a “spirited woman beneath the convention-respecting surface”.
What does Schreiner say about A Doll’s House
“It shows some sides of a woman’s nature that are not often spoken of and that some believe do not exist.”
What does Anne Brown Adams say about men’s mentality?
“men have been taught that they are absolute monarchs in their families”.
What does Anne Brown Adams say about hope for women?
“Women are taught that their only hope of heaven is to endure to the end.”
What does Brittany Wright say about female sexuality?
Female sexuality needs to be “repressed in order to safeguard the dominance of men”.
What does Johnston say about Torvald’s manipulation?
Torvald creates a “metaphysical reality”.
What does Johnston say about Torvald’s morality?
“Torvald’s moral code is entirely derived from society’s expectations”.
What does Johnstone say about Torvald’s vulnerability to manipulation?
“Torvald is a man relatively easy to manipulate, so long as his sense of society’s values are not violated”.
Who proposed ‘isolated devoteeism’?
William Rossetti
What does George Norton say about Rossetti’s religion?
Her religion was “partly responsible for the nervous breakdown she suffered”.
What does Yang say about death in Rossetti’s poetry?
“death as the destroyer of mortal things”.
What does Yang say about Rossetti’s religion?
“critics express doubts about her religious devotion”.
What does Sarah Grand say about female education?
“man deprived us if all proper education, and then jeered at us because we had no knowledge”.
What does Sarah Phillips say about female piety?
“impossible struggle of female piety against corruption in a victorian patriarchal world”.
What is female piety?
a woman’s devotion to religion
