18th Century Woman Writers Exams Review
Essay TOPICS!
Female character Types
Oroonoko
-Aphra Behn
-Imoinda: Lover of Oroonoko; slave; daughter of general that saved Oroonoko’s life; killed “with dignity” by Oroonoko; married by the King’s royal veil; did not want to be with the king so Oroonoko “saved” her and they met again as slaves where she got pregnant
The
Rover
-Aphra Behn
-Hellena: younger of the two sisters
(florinda’s sister) as well as sister to Don Pedro; wants to experience life;
possibly the Rover; lover of Willmore; going to be sent to a nunnery and wants
to discover love before that; goes to the carnival as gypsy Whore; alonedresses
like a man and speaks to Angellica and gets her to leave Willmore
-Florinda: Sister to Don Pedro and Helena;
in love with Belvile; goes to the carnival as gypsy whore; mistaken for a
whore; almost raped
-Courtesans: Whores/Prostitutes; Angelica
Bianca is the most well known and most wanted Courtesan; Angellica (whore)
falls in love with Willmore and sleeps with him for free
-Lucetta: Robs Blunt when he returns to see her after the carnival
A
Simple Story
-Elizabeth Inchbald
Romance
of The
-Ann Radcliffe
-Adeline: orphan with no one to go to or
care about her; passed off to Pierre La Motte; falls in love with Theodore
after twice meeting him because of his appearance and ideas;
-Madame La Motte: faithful wife to Pierre
La Motte; Shuns Adeline because she thinks that there is something going on
between her and Pierre
Epitaph
-Lady Mary Wrotley Montagu
-Unchaste woman was going to cheat on her
husband anyways
-teenagers died because they were sinning
Countess
of Winchilsea: The Introduction (1689)
-Anne Finch
-afraid to publish work because the risk
for unfair judgment is too high
-writes in traditional verse form to earn
the respect of her judgers
-says men are jealous of her writing so
they will be unfair to her writing
-learning is getting in the way of meeting
a husband according to men
-women are supposed to merely be around the
house
Letter
To Lady Bute
Lady Mary Wrotley Montagu
-Virgin: do not have incredibly high
standards; education is to keep her a virgin and innocent; women do not need to
work, if anything they can learn languages and behave themselves; lifetime
virgins must basically closet themselves from the world
-Mother:do not allow
-Wife: don’t waste beauty on education, use
it on a man;
-Fallen Woman:
Reasons
That Introduced Dr.S
Poems
Upon Several Occasions
-Aphra Behn
-The human race was peaceful and ungoverned
once upon a time but then males decided to take it over
-contrasts the virgin/whore dichotomy
-technological advances by men created aa
split of sexes in society
Letter
To A Young Lady On Marriage
-Jonathon Swift
-conduct book outlining how a woman can
remain chaste
-virgin whore dichotomy does not exist for
men, only women
-even after the woman is married she is
expected to be viewed as a virgin woman by her husband’s friends (no PDA or
leaving the house)
-swift says women need to: Act as though
they are virgins, women need to bathe, women should always care for their
husband, should always answer the door, not nag her man, replace beauty and
youth with durable qualities, when in a room with men women should never
involve themselves with men talk but talk amongst each other about fashion and
etc. sell yourself to a man (basically)
The
Lady’s Dressing Room
-Jonathon Swift
Other…
Violence
Against Women
Oroonoko
-Aphra Behn
-Oroonoko: Cuts up Imoinda into pieces so
she dies with dignity at the end of the novel
-Oroonoko/Cesar: Kills two female tigers
(female when being attacked but male while not attacked)
-the king is going to have Imoinda killed
-By chopping up part of the sentences with
commas and etc. this represents the chopping up of women
The
Rover
-Aphra Behn
-Blunt tries to rape Florinda
-Frederick, Don pedro and Belvile Try to
rape Florinda
-Women are judged on “whether or not they
can be raped” based on the way they dress
-superficial judgment is the basis to which
women are judged in the play
A
Simple Story
-Elizabeth Inchbald
Romance
of The
-Ann Radcliffe
The
Lady’s Dressing Room
-Jonathon Swift
-women are seen as the filth of the world
and disease
-men in the 18th century would
mock women as vain and superficial because they apparently only care about
balls and gowns; women are only left to care about superficial and vain things
-man getting quite involved with bodily
functions, very human, but he is saying women are pretty toilets
Lady’s
Dressing Room
-Jonathon Swift
-Chops up the woman on paper as he is
deconstructing her
-Women are seen as filth and disease
-
Other…
Patriarchs
Oroonoko
-Aphra Behn
-Oroonoko: Prince of Coromantien (
-The King: 100 yr old grandfather of
Oroonoko; wants Imoinda for himself
-Mr.Trefry:
The
Rover
-Aphra Behn
-Don Pedro: Brother to Florinda and Helena;
tries having Florinda marry Don Antonio instead of Don Vinceto; forbids Belvile
to marry Florinda; challenges Antonio to a fight for Angellica; Tries to out
buy Angellica from Antonio; almost rapes Florinda
-Wilmore: Originally Helena’s lover, but
then sleeps with Angellica who loves him; he tries to play to each of them that
nothing transpired; sea captain (semen); uses women for only sex but is then
convinced to marry Helena by Helena in boys clothes;
-Don Antonio: Tries to buy Angellica; Is
going to fight Pedro for Angellica but then has Belvile do it for him
A
Simple Story
-Elizabeth Inchbald
Romance
of The
-Ann Radcliffe
-Marquis: Wants Adeline and when he can’t
have her he wants to kill her; Manipulates Pierre; Steals idetnities
-Pierre La Motte
Letter
To A Young Lady On Marriage
-Jonathon Swift
-conduct book outlining how a woman can
remain chaste
-virgin whore dichotomy only applies to
women not men
-even after the woman is married she is
expected to be viewed as a virgin woman by her husband’s friends (no PDA or
leaving the house)
- Policing, control, iron fist rule,
oppressive
-swift says women need to: Act as though
they are virgins, women need to bathe, women should always care for their
husband, should always answer the door, not nag her man, replace beauty and
youth with durable qualities, when in a room with men women should never
involve themselves with men talk but talk amongst each other about fashion and
etc. sell yourself to a man (basically)
The
Imperfect Enjoyment
-The Earle of
Reasons
That Introduced Dr.S
Countess
of Winchilsea: The Introduction (1689)
-Anne Finch
-learning is getting in the way of meeting
a husband
-women are supposed to only be around the
house
-men will unfairly judge finch’s work
because she is a women and women writing is frowned upon
Other…
Popular
Romance and Transgression
Oroonoko
-Aphra Behn
-Oroonoko is fighting the tyrant (his
grandfather) to be with Imoinda; Imoinda is also the damsel in distress; takes
the reader on an exotic trip in an unfamiliar land
-Harlequin Romance
-Abduction Plot
The
Rover
-Aphra Behn
-Happy ending, Helena and Florinda are married
to the men they crush on; very Shakespearean romance
-Patriarch tries to make the women marry
who he wants and take a vow of celibacy but is undermined through a series of
events and is eventually undermined by Belvile (hero) who saves his dear
Florinda
A
Simple Story
-Elizabeth Inchbald
Romance
of The
-Ann Radcliffe
-Abduction Plot
-Adeline is captured and then rescued by a
knight in shining armour (Theodore) which then eventually leads to her
reclaiming her place in nobility
Other…
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