SUMMER TWO JANE EYRE CORE/INTERMEDIATE Flashcards
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VICTORIAN GOVERNESS
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Middle-class woman employed to ‘live in’ and teach upper class children
2
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POSITION OF THE WOMAN
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She had few choices in Victorian England: not very well educated and married off by her parents. Belonged to her husband.
3
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VICTORIAN NOVEL
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19th C novels: often long, multiple plots & exposed flaws in society.
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SOCIAL HEIRARCHY
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The way in which society is divided by social class: working class, middle class and upper class.
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SOCIETAL EXPECTATIONS
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How a society expects its people to behave; in particular, according to their gender or social class.
6
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PROTO-FEMINISM
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A belief in equality for women, held before the term ‘feminism’ was coined in the mid-1960s.
