Chapter 5 Quotes Flashcards
Lucy about her proposals in a letter to Mina
‘Why can’t they let a girl marry three men…
or as many as want her, and save all this trouble? But this is heresy and I must not say it.’
blatantly there is a hidden sexuality in her.
Mina to Lucy
‘When we are married I shall be able to be …
useful to Jonathan’
useful, objectifies her, Victorian society
Lucy to Mina
‘Dress is a …
bore.’
non materialistic- good woman
Lucy to Mina
‘Some girls are so vain. You and I, Mina dear, who are engaged and are going to settle down soon soberly into…
old married women, can despise vanity.’
Lucy being an ideal Victorian moral woman
Lucy to Mina
‘A woman ought to tell her husband…
everything.’
Lucy= ideal woman. Context of the start of the suffrage movement etc.
Lucy to Mina
‘you will think me a horrid…
flirt.’
sexuality repressed in society, flirting is v bad.
Lucy to Mina
‘Why are men so noble when we women are so little…
worthy of them?’
Gender boundaries and stereotypes in Victorian society
Lucy to Mina
‘I must only try in the future to show that I am not ungrateful for all His…
Goodness to me.’
Lucy religious- ideal Victorian woman.
Dr Seward
‘Phonograph’
shows modern technology and scientific advancement in Victorian society
Quincey to Arthur
‘to drink a health with all our hearts to the happiest man in all the wide world, who has won the noblest heart that God has made and the…
best worth winning.’
they think Lucy is the ideal woman and love her.
About Lucy
‘A curious psychological …
study’
