Thornfield Flashcards
(7 cards)
Gilbert and Gubar (1979) - feminist
”Madness”
”Truest and darkest double”
”Ferocious secret self Jane has been trying to repress […] ever since Gateshead”
Showalter (1977) - psychoanalytical
“Female sexuality in its most irredeemibly bestial and terrifying form”
DeLamotte (1990) - feminist
”Emblem of those ordinary women […] who guard silently a mystery nobody knows; their true feelings”
Hughes (1993)
”Betwixt and between”
Lady Eastlake (1848)
”Overthrown authority and violated every code, human and divine”
Solomon (1963)
”Fiery passion […] must be quenched by cold waters of self control”
Bodenheimer (1988) - feminist
“The ideal wife of the 19th century had to be decorative and obedient”