english Flashcards
(19 cards)
Death
Death as a tool for control
Metaphorical death
Death over time
Feminism
Defiance of Patriarchy
Sacrifice + consequences
Public vs Private
Relationships
Romantic relationships
Father-son inheritance
Power imbalances
Identity
Public vs private
National vs cultural
Rewriting the self
Character development
Personal awakening
Relationships in transforming
Death over time
Death - tool for control
Karamat using Parvaiz’s death for political power
“If I lose my position a second time, I shall take you with me”
Way to gain control over the situation - one as a threat and one as a scramble to regain control
Death - metaphorical
“Aneeka Knickers Pasha”
“You have destroyed all my future.”
The destruction of ones reputation is effectively the same as death
- obsession with image and external validity
Death / Development - Death over time
Parvaiz’s physical journey towards his demise
Dr Rank foreshadowing and disease as slow process
both characters are inevitably sent to their death, but while Dr Rank accepts this Parvaiz actively tries to stop it in the end, both are foreshadowed
Feminism - Defiance of Patriarchy
“You do not own our grief”
“I must stand completely alone”
both reject male authority - political in HF, domestic in ADH
Feminism - Sacrifice + consequences
Isma sacrifices her ambitions to raise her siblings
Nora sacrifices her integrity for her husband
Both sacrifice themselves for family, but Isma’s sacrifice is socially invisible, while Nora’s leads to her emancipation
Feminism - Public vs Private
Aneeka’s protest all over the news
Nora’s emancipation and whole story happens at home
Both works redefine what heroism looks like for women—public and political in Aneeka, personal and psychological in Nora
challenges traditional heroic acts
Relationships - Romantic relationships as not fulfilling
“You cant love me and be him” - unstable + political
“You have never loved me. You have only thought it pleasant to be in love with me”
performative and fragile, collapsing under the weight of social roles and personal awakening
- conditional and unfulfilling
Relationships - Father-son inheritance
“In that moment he looked towards the wall, towards the photograph of his father, and there was this understanding, I am you”
“All your fathers recklessness and instability he has handed on to you!”
inheritance as more ideological than material—Parvaiz is shaped by a mythologized absence, while Nora is judged by a tainted association
Relationships - Power imbalances
“I have been your guest. You have been my interregator”
The pet names
microcosms for societies, both are controlling and imbalanced
Identity - Public vs private
“He had learned to become two people”
“I have another duty… a duty to myself”
characters fragment their identity to survive social expectations, but while Parvaiz collapses under this duality, Nora emerges stronger
Identity - National vs cultural
“Are you british? Are you Muslim? Choose”
Nora’s struggle to be the ideal wife
both caught in identity crises shaped by external labels, (national / gendered), emphasizing the destructive effects of social expectations
Identity - Rewriting the self
Aneeka not fitting to a stereotype (Muslim but sexually free)
Nora’s emancipation
Both women choose to redefine themselves
- Aneeka through public mourning and defiance
- Nora through self-education and departure
C. Dev - Personal awakening / realization
“In that moment he looked towards the wall, towards the photograph of his father, and there was this understanding, I am you”
“I have been your doll-wife, just as I have been papa’s doll-child”
Both characters awaken to new identities, but while Parvaiz’s change is externally imposed and destructive, Nora’s is internally driven and emancipatory
C. Dev - Relationships in transforming
Aneeka shifting Eamonns loyalty to her away from Karamat
“I have been gravely wronged, Torvald, first by papa then by you”
transformation is triggered by re-evaluating close relationships
- Nora breaks away
- Eamonn sees other perspective and breaks away from dad
