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Passive Complicit Victim Strong Defiant Repressed Naive Stubborn

Victim Repressed Passive Naive Complicit Stubborn Strong Defiant. Passive Complicit Victim Strong Defiant Repressed Naive Stubborn. ‘Bridal triumph’ ‘Are you sure you love him?’ ‘I’m sure I want to marry him,’ ‘To which one day I might bear an heir. Our destination, my destiny.’

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Passive Complicit Victim Strong Defiant Repressed Naive Stubborn

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  1. Victim Repressed Passive • NaiveComplicit Stubborn StrongDefiant PassiveComplicitVictimStrongDefiantRepressedNaiveStubborn

  2. ‘Bridal triumph’ ‘Are you sure you love him?’ ‘I’m sure I want to marry him,’ ‘To which one day I might bear an heir. Our destination, my destiny.’ ‘I saw him watching me...with the assessing eye of a connoisseur inspecting horseflesh, or even of a housewife in the market, inspecting cuts on the slab.’ ‘I knew it - that henceforth, I would always be lonely.’ ‘(I swear to you, I had never been vain until I met him.)’ ‘He stripped me...as if he were stripping the leaves off an artichoke’ ‘And so my purchaser unwrapped his bargain.’

  3. They demanded suppression of the distinction between married women and concubines, between legitimate and natural children, the abolition of prostitution in closing the maisons de tolérance, or legal official brothels. • Lacombe advocated giving weapons to women • Action against systems which confined women to the roles of mother and spouse • Exclusively-female groups • Women’s right to vote • Women being in charge of society

  4. Angela Carter was interested in exploring how young female characters can be active, embrace their emerging sexual desires. • Warner on Carter – ‘She is not interested in how beautiful they are – she is interested in how powerfully they feel.’

  5. Carter’s writing seeks to redefine the victimisation of women. To what extent to do agree with this view?

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