Eng Lit ~ Prose

Question 0

Jane Austen - pride and prejudice

Answer 0

1) It is the truth universally acknowledged that man in possession of a good fortune must be in want of a wife
2) you must allow me to tell you how ardently I admire and love you

Question 1

Daniel Defoe - moll Flanders

Answer 1

Beauty will steal a husband sometimes in-spite of money

Question 4

Virginia Woolf a room of ones own- feminist criticism

Answer 4

Only seen in relation to men

Question 5

Charlotte bronte - jane eyre

Answer 5

1) You transfix me quite
2) I am my husbands life as fully as he is mine
3) Reader I married him

Question 6

Thomas hardy- far from the madding crowd

Answer 6

1) I much fear that I never shall love you as much as a woman ought to love a husband
2) marriage - a mere business contract beyond the influence of passion
3) he could speak of love and think of dinner
4) bought his discharge with Bathshebas money

Question 7

Louisa May Alcott - little women

Answer 7

One of us must marry well

Do not marry rich men merely because they are rich

Question 8

F Scott Fitzgerald the great gatsby

Answer 8

1) I married him because I thought he was a gentleman

2) it excited him to that many men had already loved daisy it increased her value in his eyes

Question 9

Rebecca - daphne du maurier

Answer 9

1) No I’m asking you to marry me you little fool

2) there was nothing quite so shaming so degrading as a failed marriage

Question 10

Margaret Atwood - the handmaids tale

Answer 10

Maybe he even likes it we are not each others anymore instead I am his

Question 11

Virginia woolf Orlando

Answer 11

Love as the poet said was a woman’s whole existence

Question 12

dh Lawrence of sons and lovers

Answer 12

Miriam- did she want a Christ in him?- isolation uncontainable lack of sex