Are Rossetti's women defiant ?

Are Rossetti's women defiant ?

1. What is defiance ?

   • Behaviour in which you refuse to obey someone or something
   • refusal to conform
   • open resistance
   • bold defiance

2. Refusal to obey a man

   • Convent Threshold
     • refuses to continue there relationship
     • Is she defiant at all she is giving up a life of sin to embrace religion
   • Cousin Kate
     • she is proud of her son and refuses to let the Lord bring her down
     • confidant she is in the right
   • Maude Claire
     • She refuses to hide away
       • makes her voice heard
     • Maude means a women strong in battle
   • A royal Princess
     • she refuses to act like a normal princess
     • determined to be defiant
       • throws herself to the people

3. Giving into / upholding public exspectations

   • Jessie Cameron
     • breaks up with him ?

4. Fallen Women

   • Don't follow social expectations
   • They suffer because of their acts
     • Cousin Kate
     • Suffer because they are defiant
   • Defiance requires strength
     • Cousin Kate - proud of her "mistake"

5. Are Rossetti's women Repressed ?

   • The social expectations that we would today class as repression were not then
     • Context
     • sex before marriage
   • Subduing someone by force
     • is anyone forced to do anything ?
       • Cousin Kate
         • forced out the communty
       • Jessie Cameron
         • forced to break up with him
         • forced to run with him