Conventionality Flashcards
Terry Eagleton on transcendence over conventionality
‘The inner world must yield of necessity to the practical virtues of caution, [to satisfy] restrictive convention and lead ultimately to a fulfilling transcendence of it’
Eagleton on the bourgeois ethic of Jane Eyre
She ‘preserve[s] the social and moral conventions intact, and so preserve[s] intact the submissive, enduring everyday self which adheres to them’
in the peace to its second edition, Bronte stated that:
‘conventionality is not morality. Self-righteousness is not religion’
Gilbert and Gubar
“‘principle and law” in the abstract do not always coincide with the deepest principles and laws of her own being’
‘he is not of your order, keep to your ____’
caste
‘I feel akin to him…
though rank and wealth sever us widely, I have something in my brain and heart, in my blood and nerves, that assimilates me mentally to him’
‘I saw he was going to marry her, for family, for perhaps political reasons____
because her rank and connections suited him; I felt he had not given her his love’
‘gentleman in his station…
are not accustomed to marry their governesses’
‘I will myself…
put the dimon chain around your neck’
‘for the world’s judgment -
I wash my hands whereof. For man’s opinion, I defy it’
‘my bride is here…
because my equal is here, and my likeness’
Aparna Srivastava
‘though Jane cannot but love Rochester, she too has to acquire economic independence… he too has to change’
Cora Kaplan
‘Bertha must be killed off, ultimately in the narrative, so that a moral, Protestant femininity, licensed sexuality and a quallified socialised femininity may survive’
Sally Minogue
‘her own mental power disturbs and threatens the familial and social conventions within which she lives’
