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TMT and ADH AO5 - Coggle Diagram
TMT and ADH AO5
MARRIAGE
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TMT
‘a wife is less trustworthy than a good servant because she is entitled to a share of her husband’s possessions.
“most marriages in the middle and upper social groups were transactions in which human beings, their labour-power and their sexual-power were sold”
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“The incongruity of January’s dreams and the reality of marriage is an important theme throughout the tale, creating an atmosphere of foolishness and delusion. In which, January’s ultimate fall seems inevitable”
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LIES AND DECEPTION
ADH
‘The more we learn of Krogstad, the more we understand that he shares a great deal with Nora.
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MORALITY
ADH
‘The more we learn of Krogstad, the more we understand that he shares a great deal with Nora.
'How Torvald Helmer could by any possibility have treated his restless, illogical, fractious and babyish little wife otherwise than he did' - Clement scott, English critic at the time
'slowly sacrifices her on the altar of his egotism, and fails to understand her value as a human being'
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MONEY
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TMT
‘Although (the ceremony) pretends to be, is nothing to do with religion, and more to do with a business deal’
“most marriages in the middle and upper social groups were transactions in which human beings, their labour-power and their sexual-power were sold”
SOCIETY
ADH
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‘Torvald’s conflict is not against Nora, but against the disappearance of the appearance that he believes in.’
2000- Polly Teal's production had a large, white doll’s house on stage. Nora emerged from this at the beginning, dancing to the sound of a music box
TMT
‘Januarie was a recognisable ingredient (of a fabliau); a doddering old husband easily cuckolded by a lusty young rival.’
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“most (probably all) marriages in the middle and upper social groups were transactions in which human beings, their labour-power and their sexual-power were sold”
'In retrospect, the definitions of the masculinity in the middle ages can be narrowed down into four categories - the intellectual, the courtly lover, the Christian and the heroic'
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SEX
ADH
"Nora confronted every convention and the chivalrous masculine prejudice that caged her within a child's toy structure."
TMT
‘The Garden is closely associated with May’s body – as well as keeping others out, it is designed to keep May in.’
'Chaucer mixes the elegant discourse of courtly love with the sordid reality of lovers' thoughts and actions'
WOMEN
ADH
‘Nora is portrayed as irrational (superficially), submissive, naïve and childish.
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TMT
‘The Merchant would like us to believe that May’s infidelity proves the wickedness of the female sex, but Chaucer makes us think that (Januarie) got what he deserved.’
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'if the husband yields control to his wife, he makes himself vulnerable to the mischievous predisposition of her sex'
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‘no faith in wives, no loyalty in wives, not rectitude in religion, no hope in supernatural powers’