mental illness Flashcards
S&S: “Common sense, common care, common prudence, were all sunk in mrs dashwoods romantic delicacy”
Shows how mrs Dashwood lets her emotions take over instead of thinking practically
S&S: “Pray, pray be composed and do not betray what you feel to everybody present” (Elinor)
Shows Elinor’s preference for controlling her emotions and dealing with problems privately, highlighting her sense of self-control
S&S: “what you know of my heart? What do you know of anything but your own suffering. For weeks Marianne, I’ve had this pressing on me without being at liberty to speak of it to a single creature. It was forced on me by the very person whose prior claims ruined all my hope”
TBJ: “it is as if my life were magically run by two electric currents: joyous positive and despairing negative- whichever is running at the moment dominates my life , floods it”
Her understanding of her own thoughts and mental state
TBJ: “at last obediently like the mouth of a ventriloquist’s dummy, my own mouth started to quirk up”
Detached
TBJ: “I felt as though I was looking at myself through a glass wall and I was so far away from myself I could see myself as a whole”
Exploring Esther’s experience with depression and her time in mental institution- raising questions about the nature of sanity and the perils of psychiatric medication
