Maude Clare Flashcards
(9 cards)
1
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Main theme (according to Harrison)
A
Fidelity vs betrayal in love
2
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Comparison of Maude Clare and Nell (Harrison)
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‘we condemn Maude Clare for unjustly disrupting the occasion’. At the end ‘Nell reinforced most reader’ initial, positive impressions of her’ due to her ‘humility’ and ‘courage’.
3
Q
Differences in the manuscript poem?
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Maude Clare seems to have been betrayed and victimised by a capricious lover.
4
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Ballad form
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- Narrative containing dialogue
- Alternative 8 and 6 syllables –> suspense in each stanza
5
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Narrative form
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- Third person narrator
- Reports on actions but not the mind.
- Simple diction –> idioms and anaphora
6
Q
Kiss?
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Thomas hesitates before he kissed Nell
7
Q
Rossetti often contrasts two young women?
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Good and bad –> Nell’s triumph due to her chastity
Like Laura and Lizzie
8
Q
Leaves ‘fading’ + ‘bloom’ of Thomas leaving
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Sign of virginity
9
Q
Unresolved ending?
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- The fate of fallen women
- Triumph of chaste ones
- Women must be more forgiving than men (sacrificial)
