REPUTATION AND SECRECY Flashcards
1
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Victorian society is instinctly hypocritical…
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… reputation can only be preserved by being secretive and duplicitous.
2
Q
The success of the novella can be attributed to the Victorian readers…
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…morbid fascination with the private lives of others.
3
Q
The novella reveals and explores unspoken understanding…
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between ‘gentlemen’ regarding their secret lives.
4
Q
“Coming home from…
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… some place at the end of the world” (Enfield)
5
Q
“ I am ashamed of my…
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… long tongue” (Enfield)
6
Q
“The last good influence in the …
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… lives of down-going men” (about utterson)
7
Q
“He was wild…
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… when he was young” (Landon on Jekyll)
