PL/DOM: Gender/Power

Question 1

The nature of female rule is unnatural”

Answer 1

John Knox (1558)

Question 2

Milton shows a “contempt of females” as “inferior beings”

Answer 2

Samuel Johnson (1779)

Question 3

“The brothers picture of the duchess is a projection of the evil in their own minds”

Answer 3

Brennan (1963)

Question 4

Duchess’s marriage is “willful and irresponsible”

Answer 4

Rabkin (1968)

Question 5

“Eve keeps and takes the initiative”

Answer 5

Tillyard (2005)

Question 6

“A cautionary tale…women marry without proper consent”

Answer 6

Roider (2005)

Question 7

Painting of Eve nude and reaching towards Adam with an apple
Eve as sinful

Answer 7

Tintoretto (1578)

Question 8

Painting of Adam refusing to forgive Eve
Adam above and physically agressive + Eve as inferior

Answer 8

John Martin (1826)

Question 9

“The Sin” Eve intertwined with snake and tinged green

Answer 9

Franz Von Stuck (1893)

Question 10

Giovanna d’Aragona ?

Answer 10

Duchess of Amalfi
Fell in love with steward
Murdered for her secret marriage

Question 11

Arbella Stuart ?

Answer 11

Imprisoned for her marriage
Public sympathy - “true lovers knot untied”

Question 12

Female Archetypes ?

Answer 12

Fallen Woman
Femme Fatale

Question 13

Lilith ?

Answer 13

An idea from medieval text
Adam’s first wife
Left him to go to hell
“The witch before the gift of Eve”- Dante Rosseti

Question 14

Marriage in Renaissance ?

Answer 14

A shift to more choice
“Love had a part to play”-Robert Ingram
No choice for royals