English Revision

Question 1

Lawrence Olivier

Answer 1

1940s, intimate with Gertrude, kisses her

Question 2

Benedict Cumberbatch

Answer 2

2015, rubble on stage throughout to symbolise rotting and decay

Question 3

Royal Shakespeare Company

Answer 3

2016, (final scene) Hamlet and Laertes share an emotional moment of forgiveness, Horatio demonstrates true care for Hamlet

Question 4

Goethe

Answer 4

(Hamlet has a) “poetic and morally sensitive soul”

Question 5

Mallibard

Answer 5

“Horatio feels deeply”

Question 6

Vardy

Answer 6

“Polonius is instrumental to the seizure and control of power”

Question 7

Taylor

Answer 7

(Ophelia) “her aimless death neither suicide nor accident, symbolises her aimless life.

Question 8

Hamlet (Oh)

Answer 8

“Oh that this too too sullied flesh would melt”

Question 9

Hamlet (Frailty)

Answer 9

“Frailty thy name is woman”

Question 10

Polonius (This)

Answer 10

“This above all to thine own self be true”

Question 11

Marcellus (Something)

Answer 11

“Something is rotten in the state of Denmark”

Question 12

Hamlet (The)

Answer 12

“The serpent that did sting my father’s life now wears his crown”

Question 13

Laertes (I)

Answer 13

“I dare damnation”

Question 14

Claudius (O)

Answer 14

“O, my offence is rank. It smells to heaven”

Question 15

Morden (Rossetti)

Answer 15

“Beneath sentiments of compliance in her poetry there is often an undertone of resistance”

Question 16

Bocher (Rossetti)

Answer 16

“Rossetti’s love for God always trumps the love for another human”

Question 17

Avery (Rossetti)

Answer 17

“Rossetti’s speakers demonstrate both an awareness of and resistance to those social and political expectations”

Question 18

Touche (Rossetti)

Answer 18

“Longings and cravings are ever present in Christina Rossetti’s poetry”

Question 19

Saturday Review (Rossetti)

Answer 19

“There is not much thinking in them”

Question 20

No, Thank you John

Answer 20

“Why will you tease me day by day”

“Use your common sense”

“I’d rather say no to fifty Johns”

Question 21

Winter: My Secret

Answer 21

“Suppose there is no secret after all”

“Come bounding and surrounding me”

“Perhaps my secret I may say”

Question 22

From the Antique

Answer 22

“Doubly blank is a women’s lot”

“It’s a weary life”

“We’re nothing at all in all the world”

Question 23

Remember

Answer 23

“Into the silent land”

“Only remember me”

“Better by far you should forget and smile”

Question 24

Goblin Market

Answer 24

“You should not peep at goblin men”

“Laura turn’s cold as stone / To find her sister heard that cry alone”

“Hug me, kiss me, suck my juices”

Question 25

Klein (Wilde)

Answer 25

“Robert is a spokesperson for every man who is presumed and pressured to be more than he is”

Question 26

Raby (Wilde)

Answer 26

“Wilde targeted his audience with precision”

Question 27

Bose (Wilde)

Answer 27

“Mrs Cheveley’s wrongdoing is obvious, she invades male power”

Question 28

Powell (Wilde)

Answer 28

“Wilde simultaneously seeks to dismantle and preserve the double standards”

Question 29

Allen Cave (Wilde)

Answer 29

“The nature of the masks that allow one to play out numerous identities”

Question 30

Sir Robert Chiltern (I)

Answer 30

“I had not the courage to come down, show you my wounds”

Question 31

Mabel Chiltern (Then)

Answer 31

“Then I suppose it is my duty to remain with you”

Question 32

Lord Goring (A)

Answer 32

“A woman who can keep a man’s love, and love him I return, has done all the world wants of women”

Question 33

Stage directions about Mrs Cheveley (A)

Answer 33

“A mask has fallen from her”

Question 34

Lady Chiltern (A)

Answer 34

“A man’s life is of more value than a woman’s”

Question 35

Repeated marriage proposals (Rossetti)

Answer 35

Believed the poem ‘No, Thank You John’ was based off of a real suitor who would not take Rossetti’s no for an answer. Many scholars believe she is referencing the Pre-Raphaelite painter John Brett.

Question 36

Work at Highgate Penitentiary (Rossetti)

Answer 36

Volunteered for 11 years to help fallen women that had been outcast and labelled as sinners. Her work allowed a better understanding of the idea of a ‘fallen woman’ Rossetti managed to help the passing of a bill to raise the age of consent to 16, as she was seeing that a lot of little girls were starting to fall into prostitution, therefore causing destitution for life.

Question 37

Rossetti's Views (Rossetti)

Answer 37

Rossetti had written to the poet Augusta Webster in 1878 that because she believed that “the highest functions are not in this world open to both sexes,” she could not sign a petition for women's suffrage.

Question 38

Illness in her teens (Rossetti)

Answer 38

When she was 14, Rossetti had a nervous breakdown, and bouts of depression and illness followed that bound her to the house. This was when she became particularly devoted to her religion.

Question 39

Wilde's influence (Wilde)

Answer 39

Wilde often was quoted saying that he never wrote for passion but rather wrote for money and fame.

Question 40

Fin de siècle (Wilde)

Answer 40

Arts, politics, science, and society were revolutionised, and this effected mainly women, as new educational and employment opportunities became available, as well as the fact marriage and motherhood had started to be disregarded as being the only way to guarantee financial security. The ‘new woman’ undermined the traditional view of the feminine.

Question 41

Contagious Disease Acts (Wilde)

Answer 41

Despite the struggle against the Contagious Disease Acts of the 1870s which proved that women were able to effect policy making at a national level, they were still excluded from administrative posts and seats in Parliament. They were forced to exert their influence in a private or domestic environment.

Question 42

Speranza (Wilde)

Answer 42

Oscar Wilde's mother - Lady Wilde. Early advocate for women’s liberation. Held a weekly, candle-lit Salon, attended by the best and brightest of Dublin’s artists, writers, scientists, and miscellaneous intellects. Oscar Wilde was, from a young age, encouraged by both his parents to sit amongst the visitors.