Summary A Level Essay Plan: Money in Rossetti poems and Ibsen A Doll’s House
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Course
Drama and poetry pre-1900 (H47201)
Institution
OCR
An essay plan formulated based on my study notes for the A-level Drama and Poetry section of the course, studying specifically Ibsen’s play A Doll’s House and Rossetti’s poems featuring analysis, context and critics surrounding the theme of money which could potentially come up in a future e...
1- No Thank You John 2-Shut out 3-Goblin 1-Nora’s leave and spiritual journey 2-Torvald 3-
Market Noras relation to Rank/ Linde to Krog
Context
Rossetti
Rossetti, as a result of her illness, had the freedom and money to pursue her own career as a
poet, unlike many women who had to turn to prostitution. Shows for the middle classes,
freedom is the currency they focuses upon.
Most women of lower economic status were forced to make a living as a shop clerks at low
wages, so transitioned to prostitutes for money; in this way they are their own employer, so
freedom in occupation.
Rossetti declined two proposals from Collinson, Cayley, so she could have economic
independence, some argued.
Women only had ownership of their children until 7, and had no financial independence from
their husbands. They essentially were entitled to nothing if they were married.
Food adulterations in the industrial period- fraud and potted fruits, coloured and adapted with
false ingredients to look more appetising and lengthen it’s ripeness. As a result, many were
poisoned and killed. Clearings established amongst the lower classes to test their food,
though the pastoral home wasn’t safe from the lies of the market. Due to Laissez faire
economics, not much would prevent this.
Shut out original ending which DGR told her to cut: “Oh thought of solace gone before, faint
thought of love no love could save, by pathway of the narrow grave, at least shall i reach
home once more” ; optimistic.
Money isn't the only currency of wealth 1
, Her fathers illness in her teens, he went blind.
Lizzie Siddal buried with Christina.
Ibsen
British critics of ADH saw Norway as a land of peasants, in contrast to britain as a
commonwealth imperial power, exporter of rich and fine goods. Norway was perceived as a
Viking land, scantily populated, yet to gain full independence.
Norway economic Boom 1843- more jobs, money, middle class expansion and greater
awareness of money and finance. Bourgeois class came with respectability and expectations
of financial success, life without debt and good morals,
Naturalism portraying extreme realism, revealing darker sides of life contrasting to
romanticist influences onto Rossetti, but also like Pre-Raphelite exploration of prostitution in
DG work.
Germanic ending 1880; nora shuts door of childrens bedroom instead.
Ibsen as a humanist/ Kiersgaardian lens of religion; humans find their own morals. (Spiritual
currency)
Napoleonic code- men authority figures of family
Male gaze/ camilla collet essays which ibsen read on madonna whore.
Ibsen small harbour town skein, illegitimate son at 18 had to also finance.
Women beauty standards- jewels and fashion proof of husbands wealth and power.
Despite having ancestors of rich aristocrats, his father fell into debt at 7 and became
alcoholic.
Dickensian influence on Norway and him- david copper field copy.
Paraphernalia of gentility- buying luxury goods, stocking home with material possessions.
Being a consumer had become a civic duty.
Point 1: Freedom
Rossetti
Money isn't the only currency of wealth 2
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