Masculinity vs femininity Flashcards

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. Don’t address me as if I were a beauty; I am your plain, Quakerish governess.” - thinks she lacks femininity because of her class

A

view themselves as lacking femininity but clarissa because of age

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“Oh, sir!—never mind jewels! I don’t like to hear them spoken of.

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hugh buys jewels for everlyn

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ms killmans lack of femininity is why she is so obsessed with elizebeth when she leaves - “elizebeth has gone. beauty has gone; youth has gone”

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but jane does not lack femininity and though she thinks bad of herself she is flattered by rochester - “You are a beauty in my eyes, and a beauty just after the desire of my heart,—delicate and aërial.”

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