Masculinity vs femininity Flashcards
1
Q
. 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
2
Q
“Oh, sir!—never mind jewels! I don’t like to hear them spoken of.
A
hugh buys jewels for everlyn
3
Q
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”
A
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.”