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Title: Wider reading log Prose Love
Description: Love through the ages Wider reading log
Description: Love through the ages Wider reading log
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Era
18th
century
(Later)
...
In the name
of Love
Author
Quotes
Jill Tweedie
“Love may
turn out to
be our only
solace in
this
loneliness
of a million
million
galaxies”
“The loves
we know
(late
comers as
they are)
are passion
and
romance
and both, if
given the
centre
stage, will
not sustain
the burden
of reality”
“Both are
an escape
from
reality”
“Romantic
flourishes
may be
seen to
have a
devious
purpose…
it
convenient
ly conceals
the
gangrenou
s patches
in the
relationshi
p between
the sexes”
Love
Themes
Female
submission
Male
oppression
Roles of
males
...
Impact
among
women
readers
Aimed at
women
...
Early
19th
century
The
Later
19th
century
and
early
20th
century
...
“Good
God!
Willoughby
, what is
the
meaning of
this?”
‘Everything
within my
view which
ought to be
white, had
been white
long ago,
and had
lost its
lustre’
‘I want to
be a
gentleman’
“I’ve made
a
gentleman
of you”
“I thought I
overheard
Miss
Havisham
answeronly it
seems
Society and
the
judgments
of that
society
Female
convention
, Marianne
strays from
this
View of
Miss
Havisham,
desperate
to marrysocial class
...
Magwitch
is Pip’s
benefactor
- changes
Pips
outlook on
fortune
and society
Romantic
period- 17751840
Key focus:
nature and
imagination
and passion
...
Lit at the
time main
themes- duty,
trade,
education,
morality,
social classes
...
unlikely“Well, you
can break
his heart”
“Free!
Body and
soul free!”
she kept
whispering,
“She did
not stop to
ask if it
were or
were not a
monstrous
joy that
held her
...
He
knew that
a feeling
like that
must be
Love
...
Victorian
...
MasterMale
dominance
Society and
duties
Lust,
marriage
Young love
Modernist
period
...
I was great
with him at
that time”
Her voice
pained
“how said
it is to die
so young”
Later
half of
the 20th
century
Happy
Endings
Short story
Margaret
Atwood
“A poor
part
...
had played
in her life”
Version A‘happily
ever after’,
uses the
words
‘stimulatin
g and
challenging
’ to
describe
their jobs,
sex life,
and
hobbies…
Version BJohn uses
Mary’s
body for
‘selfish
pleasure
and ego
gratificatio
n of a tepid
kind
...
“Inside
John, she
thinks is
another
Love as
blind hope
Gender
roles
...
”
“Lolita,
light of my
life, fire of
my loins
...
”
“I knew I
had fallen
in love with
Lolita
forever,
but I also
knew she
would not
be forever
Lolita
Title: Wider reading log Prose Love
Description: Love through the ages Wider reading log
Description: Love through the ages Wider reading log