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Rebecca Lyons


Ibsen
- Love is associated with wealth and possession;
Nora is with Torvald because he will earn ‘heaps of

money’
- Nora is an acquisition for Torvald, he loves her like
he would any other possession, he has a perceived
right to her – ‘why shouldn’t I look at my most
precious treasure’
- Torvald’s love is reliant on a sense of dominance
over the helpless Nora, who he saved from a
perceived ‘great danger’; similarly, Mrs Linde’s
union with Krogstad is formed upon the
recognition of his ‘shipwrecked soul’
- Love is an elaborate power system for Nora and
Torvald, each vying for the upper hand; Torvald
through objectification and wealth, and Nora
through deception and sexuality
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- Torvald’s admiration of Nora is embedded in his
thinking that ‘she’s worth looking at’, he forms a
fantasy image of her which is connected to her
physical beauty
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- AH – Coleridge expresses a profound appreciation
for nature in his declaration that it is ‘impossible
not to love all things’ He gives flowers the human
attributes of ‘innocence and love’, establishing the
Unitarian idea that humanity and nature have a
symbolically intertwined relationship
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Yet, Sir Leoline’s love is a
manipulative form of controlling Christabel’s
whereabouts
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’ Women serve only as
a ‘meek daughter of Christ’, naturally submissive
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- KK – The ‘Deep romantic chasm’ in Kubla Khan is
representative of the female genitalia, ‘deep’ in its
provocation of men’s thoughts and attention, and
‘romantic’ in its suggestion that, for men, love is
inextricably linked with sexual desire
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- D – The poem’s opening address to ‘O Lady!’ , the
object of desire, establishes a romantic
undercurrent between the speaker and his
unknown love, whomever she might be

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