Wilde/ Rossetti A04 Flashcards
Angerson quote about power
‘Wilde explores the serious question of the relationship between political power and personal morality’
Angerson quote about Mabel and Goring
‘Mabel Chiltern and Lord Goring are perhaps the closest to Wilde himself’
Wilde on art
‘Life imitates art’
Buzwell on the new woman
‘The New Woman and the Decadent were frequently linked’
Wilde on appearances
‘It is only shallow people who do not judge by appearances’
Cohen on Goring
When Goring says “no one should be judged entirely on their past” ‘it could well be Wilde speaking’
Cohen on imperfection
‘Imperfection seems appropriate in a play that advocates the acceptance of mans imperfections’
Gagnier on the audience
‘The sentimental interpretation allowed society to love the playwright who mocked it’
Avery on religion
‘Her writings show her constantly interrogating religious ideas and beliefs’
Quote on love and themes
‘The inconsistency of human love, the vanity of earthly pleasures, renunciation, individual worthiness and the perfection of divine love are recurring themes’
Rossetti on gender
‘There is neither male nor female for we are all one’
Pallazzo on fallen women
‘Rossetti has radically rewritten the fall of eve’
Gilbert and Gilbar on renunciation
‘Rossetti banqueting on bitterness must bury herself alive in a coffin of renunciation’
McGann on Goblin Market
‘Goblin market is a cry for a new social order’
Gilbert and Gilbar
‘Singer of renunciation’
