ENGLISH LITERATURE CRITICAL QUOTES A05 – Flashcards
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Cicily Berry 'Caliban is the 'other' and Prospero...
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...has power over him through language'
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Miller 'Caliban is demoralised, detribalised...
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...and dispossessed'
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Daniel 'Prospero's art is to achieve supremacy...
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...over the natural world by holy magic'
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Robert Wilson 'Prospero is the controller...
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...the manipulator'
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McFarland 'Gonzalo is a...
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...speaker of a certain truth'
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Northrop 'Antonio and Sebastian are the real dreamers...
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sunk in the hallucination of greed'
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Simpson 'Both fathers have virtuous children...
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...who will redeem them through marriage'
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Mirandola 'Magic has two forms, the power of demons...
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...and the highest realisation of natural philosophy'
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Kermode 'Prospero's art...
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...controls nature'
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Irving Ribner 'The Duchess stands for ordinary humanity, love...
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...and the continuity of life through children'
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PB Murray 'The radiant spirit of the Duchess...
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...cannot be killed'
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PB Murray 'Antonio is modelled on...
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...the ideal of Christian gentility'
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Chris Hart 'Bosola is a twisted misanthrope and...
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...cut-throat'
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Muriel Bradbrook 'Bosola is never permitted the luxury...
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...of being a self'
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Irving Ribner 'The way of the Arragonian brothers is that of madness and damnation...
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...the complete descent of man into beast symbolised by the lycanthropia of Ferdinand'
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Lee Bliss 'The Cardinal's cool, unemotional detachment is...
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...more terrifying than Ferdinand's impassioned raving'
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Nanci Roider 'The play shows what can happen when...
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...women marry without being granted the proper consent'
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Jaqueline O'Connor 'The play presents Blanche as a tragic figure and Stanley as...
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...an agent of her destruction'
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Kathleen Margaret Lant 'Stanley strips her of her psychological...
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...sexual and cultural identity'
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Shirley Galloway 'Blanche Dubois is a victim of the...
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...mythology of the southern belle'
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Nancy Tischner 'Blanche becomes economically...
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...vulnerable to Stanley'
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Samuel Tapp 'Williams wants the audience to believe that Stella is wrong for loving Stanley...
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...but in the right for living with him'
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Leonard Berkman 'Williams infuses Blanch and Stanley with the symbols of...
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...opposing class and differing attitudes'
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Leonard Berkman 'Stanley survives because of sheer physical vitality...
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...not because of any innate superiority'
