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Ibsen and Rossetti, IBSEN 1879 AND ROSSETTI 1800s, Death - Coggle Diagram

- - - - firm tone yet loving language
    - - rejection of sentimentality common in Victorian era
    - - symbol of romance
    - - evergreen - symbol of enduring love
      - branches are carried at funerals
    - - close connection to nature, natural grave over traditional religious burial
      - Romantic, natural burial, not traditional religious funeral
    - - syntactic parallels
      - peace of mind of the 'dearest' prioritised over happiness of the speaker
      - rhythm of a song - hence title
    - - indeterminate - purgatory
    - - neat conclusion
      - repetition of syntactic parallels
      - peace in uncertainty
  - - - first person - direct - simple language
    - - comforting but lonely
      - biblical allusion
    - - death
    - - misogyny
      - control
      - Rossetti as a new woman - independent strong willed
    - - concern for souls
      - Anglicans say no praying for the dead
  - - - from the antique
        
        " I wish and I wish I were a man" - men in power
      - goblin market
        
        "they trod and hustled her, elbowed and jostled her, clawed with their nails" - men in power
        
        “Held her hands and squeezed their fruits
        Against her mouth to make her eat.” - sex
        
        “Pleasure past and anguish past, Is it death or is it life?” - death
        
        ‘Morning and evening
        Maids heard the goblins cry: "Come buy our orchard fruits, Come buy, come buy”’ - exchange
        
        “Tender Lizzie could not bear To watch her sister's cankerous care, Yet not to share.” - family
    - - twice
        
        “O my God, O my God;
        Now let Thy judgment stand--Yea judge me now" - religion
      - a birthday
        
        "my heart is like a rainbow shell, that paddles in a halcyon sea" - religion
      - shut out
        
        “Since my delightful land is gone” - religion
      - good friday
        
        “O Christ, beneath Thy cross,
        To number drop by drop”- religion
    - - song: when I am dead my dearest
        
        "When i am dead my dearest, sing no sad songs for me" - death
    - - souer louise de la misericorde
        
        “I have desired, and I have been desired” - sex
        
        “Oh vanity of vanities, desire!” - corruption
      - echo
        
        "In the silence of the night; come in the speaking silence of a dream" - sex
    - - winter: my secret
        
        "perhaps there's none: suppose there is no secret after all, but only just my fun" - rebellion
      - maude clare
        
        "I'll love him till he loves me best, me best of all, Maude Claire" - rebellion
    - - up-hill
        
        ‘Does the road wind up-hill all the way?’ - redemption
      - no thank you john
        
        "here's friendship if you like, but love? no thank you john" - redemption
        
        ‘I would rather answer no to fifty Johns than say yes to you.’ - misogyny
    - - in the round tower at jhansi, june 8 1857
        
        "Close the pistol to her brow -- God forgive them this" - guilt
        
        ‘I wish I could bear the pang for both’ - guilt
    - - remember
        
        “You tell me of our future that you planned” - misogyny/control
  - - - Rossetti examines women's position in society through consideration of the institution of marriage
        
        Simon Avery
      - Rossetti's poetry asserts a woman's right to say no
        
        Simon Avery
      - the oppression and alienation of women is felt strongly in from the antique
        
        Simon Avery
      - Maude Clare is a clear critique of dominant masculinity
        
        Simon Avery
      - Human love is sacrificed for a desired relationship with god
        
        Reid
      - Rossetti's point of focus in the round tower is the mutual devotion of the married couple
        
        Gray
      - Soeur de louise gives the fallen woman herself a voice
        
        Kirby
      - Goblin market confronts the issue of betrayed expectations in love
        
        Harrison
      - Winter my secret is an intriguing study in the manipulation of power
        
        Simon Avery
      - Goblin market can be understood as a conventional parable of temptation, sacrifice and salvation
        
        Morden
      - In song Rossetti portrays death as a bittersweet victory over the unloving
        
        Conley
      - Christina seems to have been frightened by aggressive masculinity
        
        Jan Marsh
      - In Rossetti's poetry god is always there
        
        Bocher
      - Rossetti has radically rewritten the fall of eve in terms of the spiritual abuse of women
        
        Palazzo
      - Rossetti explores what she saw as the great danger that the Victorian cult of love and marriage posed to the souls of women
        
        Betty Flowers
      - Rossetti predominantly expresses an emotional love - and not a sexualised love
        
        Bocher
      - Rossetti's poems encourages women to claim independence and agency
        
        Simon Avery
- - - - ‘A miracle is going to happen.’ - Nora
      - ‘It’s shocking. This is how you would neglect your most sacred duties.’ - Helmer
      - ‘I set you free of your obligations.’ -Nora
    - - ‘I’m taking off my costume.’ - Nora
      - ‘(The sound of a door shutting is heard from below.)’ - Nora
    - - ‘I should like to tear it into a hundred thousand pieces!’ - Nora.
      - ‘Dr Rank! –don’t you feel ashamed of yourself, now the lamp has come?’ -Meta Theatre Nora
    - - ‘What makes you think I have any influence of that kind on my husband?’- Nora
      - ‘You can depend on me.’ - Helmer
      - ‘You're joking, my little Nora! You won't? Am I not your husband?’
    - - ‘My blood was on fire; I could endure it no longer, and that was why I brought you down so early–’ - Helmer
    - - ‘You have never loved me.
      - You have only thought it pleasant to be in love with me.’ - Nora
      - ‘(Puts the bag of macaroons into her pocket and wipes her mouth.)’ -Nora
    - - ‘At the next fancy dress ball I shall be invisible’ - Rank
      - ‘Ah! The icy black waters1 The unfathomable depths– If only it were over!’ - Nora
    - - ‘If I lose my position a second time, you shall lose yours with me’ - Krogstad
    - - ‘Such an atmosphere of lies infects and poisons the whole life of a home.’ - Helmer
      - ‘To have to pay the penalty for another man’s sin?’ -Rank
    - - ‘Think of my little children’ - Nora
      - ‘I want to be a mother to someone and your children need a mother’ - Linde
    - - Almost everyone who has gone to the bad early in life has had a deceitful mother’ - Helmer
  - - - Ronald Gray
    - - Sally Ledger
    - - Sally Ledger
    - - Rufus
    - - Sally Ledger
    - - Thomas
    - - Koht
    - - Hoffman
    - - Beerbohm
    - - Lee
    - - Shaw
    - - Baruch
    - - Harris
    - - Peel
    - - Sally Ledger
    - - Myers
    - - Cron
    - - Gray
    - - Dean
    - - Finney