Woman in White
Literary Theories
LA's Secret Quotes
Lady of Shalott
Porphryia's Lover
100
Whom does Count Fosco take a personal interest in and liking to?
Marian Halcombe
100
If you were writing a paper on The Woman in White and wanted to use the psychoanalytic approach, name one thing you would look for in the novel. In other words, what is one element of the psychoanalytic approach?
Body language, word choice/order, events before or after primary plot point, signs of self-destructive behavior, indicators of being too defensive
100
"I brooded horribly upon the thought of my mother's madness. It haunted me by day and night."
Lady Audley / Lucy Graham / Helen Maldon Talboys
100
What is the Lady of Shalott forbidden to do?
Look down upon the town of Camelot
100
What happens to Porphyria?
Speaker strangles her with her own hair
200
It would be difficult find Fosco without these squeaky companions.
What are the white mice?
200
"If I had been a man, I would have knocked him down on the threshold of his own door, and have left his house, never on any earthly consideration to enter it again. But I was only a woman—and I loved his wife so dearly!"
This quote from The Woman in White best aligns with which literary theory?
Gender criticism (because Marian Halcombe explains how her life would be different if she were a man; focus is on gender roles)
200
"I still think, as I thought before, that my son is alive, and that his disappearance is a conspiracy against myself. I decline to become the victim of that conspiracy."
Mr. Harcourt Talboys (George's father)
200
Who wrote "The Lady of Shalott"?
Alfred, Lord Tennyson
200
Name one action Porphyria performs before she acknowledges the speaker/her lover.
Glides in and shuts door, makes a fire, takes off cloak and shawl, takes off gloves, lets down hair
300
Anne Catherick and Laura are this, a popular literary trope used to explore the concept of "the other" or the subconscious
dopplegangers
300
"She spoke with unnecessary earnestness and agitation, and shrank back from me several paces."
This quote from The Woman in White best aligns with which literary theory?
Psychoanalytic approach (because quote highlights body language and unusual behavior)
300
Indicate the significance of this quote: "Yes, the painter must have been a pre-Raphaelite. ... No one but a pre-Raphaelite would have so exaggerated every attribute of that delicate face as to give a lurid lightness to the blonde complexion, and a strange sinister light to the deep blue eyes. No one but a pre-Raphaelite could have given to that pretty pouting mouth the hard and almost wicked look it had in the portrait."
Reveals key factors of Lady Audley's psyche, connecting her with the long tradition of femme fatales in PRB art
300
Embedded in this painting is an allusion to the Lady of Shallot (name the painting and identify the allusion)
John Millais's Mariana and the knight's helmet and the shield in the stained glass window.
300
What is the class difference between the speaker and Porphyria?Provide evidence AND indicate how this dynamic reflects a key event in the author's life.
Speaker is lower class (e.g., lives in a cottage); Porphyria is upper class (e.g., wears gloves, was at a gay feast, came in a carriage). Marriage between RB and the frail EBB
400
What is "the Secret" that motivates Sir Percival?
Sir Percival is an imposter and son of unmarried parents
400
In both Lady Audley's Secret and The Woman in White, asylums serve as major plot points. For instance, both Anne Catherick and Laura Fairlie spend time in a London asylum in The Woman in White, and Lady Audley's Secret ends with Robert Audley banishing Lady Audley to an asylum in France. Asylums played a major role in the nineteenth century, so it seems that both Mary Elizabeth Braddon and Wilkie Collins were influenced by the time period.
This serves as an example of which literary theory?
Historical approach (because both novels reflect the time period when Victorian women were often committed to asylums)
400
Indicate the significance of this symbol: The growling dog.
Alicia's dog does not trust LA and signifies her true nature.
400
Daily Double: John Williams Waterhouse's rendition of lady of Shallot is interesting for this reason.
She is making eye contact with the viewer.
400
This technique was used to emphasize the speaker's pyschosis; in poetry, this is incomplete syntax at the end of a line; the meaning runs over from one poetic line to the next, without terminal punctuation
What is enjambment?
500
Pesca's Secret Italian Brotherhood is a thinly veiled allusion to this real-life Italian terrorist group.
Carbonari
500
"Luke Marks, dressed in his ill-fitting Sunday clothes, looked by no means handsomer than in his every-day apparel; but Phoebe, arrayed in a rustling silk of delicate gray, that had been worn about half a dozen times by her mistress, looked, as the few spectators of the ceremony remarked, 'quite the lady.'"
This quote from Lady Audley's Secret best aligns with which literary theory?
Sociological approach or Marxist approach (because quote highlights economic conditions and class differences using characters' clothing)
500
Speaker and significance: "I was close against the mouth of the dry well when I heard a sound that made my blood creep."
Luke Marks, hears the murder attempt and uses this info for his own benefit
500
Name at least 3 fairytales that can be seen as variations of the Lady of Shallot.
Rapunzel, Sleeping Beauty and Snow White (also red riding hood and little mermaid)
500
In the article we read in class, this literary critic used a psychological approach to analyze "Porphyria's Lover"?
David Eggenschwiler