Zusammenfassung der Ressource
Proposals
- Pride and Prejudice
- Mr. Collins
- Arrogant
- Assumes that Lizzie will say yes
- Barely lets her answer
- Love is not needed in this marriage
- Marriage is seen as a business transaction
- Patriarchal society
- The only opinion that seems important is Mr Collin's and Lizzies parents
- Mr Darcy
- Classist
- Recognizes the gap in class between himself and Lizzie's family
- Thinks that he is doing Lizzie a favour by marrying her
- Considers his love for her as an 'inconvenience'
- Juxtaposes Collins-love IS important in marriage
- Describes Lizzie's family as embarrassing
- Jane Eyre
- St. John
- Marriage is seen as a business transaction
- Patriarchal society
- Wants Jane to accompany him to Africa
- Missionary's wife
- Hence why he refuses to marry Rosalind
- Is convinced that she would be a bad missionary's wife
- Love is unimportant
- Rochester
- Proposal takes place on a midsummer evening
- Juxtaposes most classical proposals-most take place during a
Spring morning
- Beginning of the end
- Winter is approaching-signifies death and decay
- Moth-dying as soon as it touches the light
- Being exposed to the truth
- Rochester risking the law and God to marry Jane
- Committing bigomy
- 'May God forgive me'
- Very passionate
- Marriage=love
- Ignores the class divide between he and Jane
- Passion from both participants
- The Importance of Being Ernest
- Jack/Gwendolin
- Comical proposal
- Ridicules the Victorian values of proposals
- Jack is a mess-unsure of what to say, tripping over his words
- Gwen is impatient-prompts him to propose
- The female is the one controlling the situation
- Goes against the patriarchal views of the time
- Ignores the class divide between Jack and Gwen
- The proposal is interrupted by Lady Bracknell
- Gwen's mother
- Algernon/Cecily
- Cecily is in control of the proposal
- Prompts Algy to propose
- Seems unfazd/unsurprised when he does
- Very romantic environment for a not very romantic proposal
- Set in a gondola boat
- The proposal has apparently already happened according to Cecily
- Cecily lives a fantasy life with Algy in her diary
- 'A relationship is respectable only when they have separated at some point'
- Takes Algy aback-confuses and pushes him out of his confident persona