Sentimentality quotes Flashcards
(14 cards)
Ellen Fitzarthur (1820) for temptation
The teacher, fond! Indulgent! Mild!
Grateful and apt the duteous child.
But Paradise itself was lost
When woman’s path the tempter crost-
And still the wily serpent’s art
Beguiles confiding woman’s heart.
Pride and Prejudice (1813) for temptation
She has no money, no connections, nothing that can tempt him to - she is lost forever.
Stephen Behrendt, 2016, for temptation
This oft-repeated variation on the moral tale of the fall frequently comes replete with literary and cultural allusions to the familiar biblical paradigm of Eve’s seduction in Eden by the flattery of the attractive serpent.
Pride and Prejudice for parental response to Lydia’s fall
My poor mother is really ill and keeps to her room
and as to my father, I never in my life saw him so affected
Father and Daughter (1801) for parental relationship
To the steady manly affection of a father, Fitzhenry joined the fond anxieties and endearing attentions of a mother
Father and Daughter (1801) for parental response
When Fitzhenry first heard of her flight, he sat for hours absorbed in a sort of dumb anguish, far more eloquent than words.
Ellen Fitzarthur (1820) for parental relationships/ response
a widowed father’s heart
Must doubly feel a parent’s part
his the love that must supply
A mother’s fond and watchful eye,
A mother’s hopes, a mother’s fears,
A mother’s thousand anxious cares
Father and Daughter (1801) for societal isolation
For your son’s sake I have left the best of fathers, the happiest of homes, and have become an outcast from society.
Pride and Prejudice for societal isolation
My youngest sister has left all her friends - has eloped - has thrown herself into the power of Mr Wickham. They are gone off together from Brighton, -you- know him too well to doubt the rest.
can I suppose her lost to everything - impossible.
Pride and Prejudice for the effect on wider family
Lydia - the humiliation, the misery she was bringing on them all, soon swallowed up every private care.
Pride and Prejudice for Gretna green vs London
Imprudent as a marriage between Mr Wickham and our poor Lydia would be we are now anxious to be assured it has taken place, for there is too much reason to fear they are not gone to Scotland.
Low, 2006
Those cautionary tales uphold the importance of the family unit, the infallibility of the established church, and the fatal instability of sexual relationships outside of marriage.
Father and daughter for Gretna Green
he seduced her from her father’s house, under the pretense of carrying her to Gretna-green; but, on some infernal plea or other, he took her to London.
The Father and Daughter (1801) on form
‘The Father and Daughter’ is wholly devoid of those attempts at strong character, comic situation, bustle, and variety of incident, which constitute a novel, and that its highest pretensions are, to be a SIMPLE, MORAL TALE.
