webster/rossetti critics

Question 1

Rossetti critics

Answer 1

Rosenblum “Rossetti explores the difficulty of a nun giving up earthly love for divine love”
Norton “sins of men are not considered as faults”
Bocher- “her religious views affected everything that she wrote”
Gilbert and Gilbert “she willingly accepts the state of destitution to which she is cast”

Question 2

malfi critics

Answer 2

Elizabeth “I have the body of a weak and feeble woman but I have the heart and stomach of a king”

Callaghan “human fragility was emphasised by the woman as the tragic hero”

Cecil “incurably corrupt”

Salingar “the balance of literature” was altered after the reformation

Aughterson “the endings are deliberately ambiguous”