Feminism/ Gender Flashcards
JE 1
“It would, indeed, be a relief,’ I thought, ‘if I had ever so small am independency; I never can bear being dressed like a doll by Mr Rochester”
JE 2
“Sir, it removed my veil from its gaunt head, rent it in two parts, and flinging both on the floor, trampled on them.”
TT 2
“In the Qur’an it says that pure women are for pure men… and I wasn’t clean enough for you then…”
TT 1
“he does not love me enough, I am not beautiful enough. I am not feminine enough coming here to ask him to marry me when I should have waited to be asked”
Bennett and Royle
Various kinds of gender-stereotypes are then articulated on this essentialism: the male is strong, active, rational, the female is weak, passive, irrational and so forth.”
Sandra Gilbert and Susan Gubar idea
Bertha is Jane’s dark double, her repressed anger