Marriage/patriarchy

Question 1

‘Minimising Marriage’, Elizabeth Brake, 2012

Answer 1

“Critics argue that marriage is essentially patriarchal, heteronormative, harmful and an ownership relation”

(Brake 2012)

Question 2

The Tempest, Shakespeare, early 1600s

Answer 2

“your affection not gone forth, I’ll make you/
The Queen of Naples.” Ferdinand
(Shakespeare 2008)

Question 3

Things Fall Apart, Chinua Achebe, 1958

Answer 3

“Okonkwo was clearly cut out for great things… He was a wealthy farmer and had two barns full of yams, and had just married his third wife”

(Achebe 2010)

Question 4

The Tempest 2

Answer 4

“Then as my gift and thine own acquisition/
Worthily purchased, take my daughter.”
(Shakespeare 2008)

Question 5

Rape, Race and Conquest in The Tempest, John Kanat, 2014

Answer 5

“In Prospero’s eyes, Ferdinand and Miranda’s love is the instrument through which the political will be restored”

(Kanat 2014)

Question 6

TFA 2

Answer 6

“There are many good and prosperous people here, but I shall be happy if you marry in Umuofia when we return home.”

(Achebe 2010)