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Pride and Prejudice Flashcards

1
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the marriage plot: … plot, any novel that ends with …

historically derives from notion of ….

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romance novel; marriage; companionate marriage

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novel is new form in 18th century:
associated with … world, … form
… form
narrative becomes … and …–> greater …
changes in …, …, more powerful … emerging at this time (people have the means to …)
biggest audience for novels is …

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modern; modern; middle class; available; cheap; audience; social order; industrial revolution; middle class; purchase books; women

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people’s notions of … and of the … is changing at this time

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themselves; social order

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women had to be married to havw

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financial independence

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stories often try to resolve certain problems/questions:
problem here is ..
one of the questions is what an … looks like
problems of … and … here as well: Bennets are at lower end of the … (kind of like upper middle class), Darcy is at the top of the …

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marriage; ideal marriage; wealth; class; gentry; gentry

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5 Bennet sisters, and no sons: Elizabeth can’t … her father’s land, so there is much pressure on her to get married

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inherit

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in these classes, … is of extreme importance:

women blamed for family’s … and … –> ways of … the …

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social decorum; reputation; behavior; controlling; bride

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poor houses: exploitation of … in order for people to … to …

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labor; eat; survive

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there were … for those who couldn’t pay debts

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debtor’s prisons

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middle class women couldn’t … , unless they did so as … which was considered the ultimate …

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work; servants; shame

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Jane Austen is writing in a narrow world of …, where women are desperate to …

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middle class (gentry) respectability; married

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women could also become a …–one of the only respectable options for a woman of Eliza’s class if they didn’t get married, besides living with a brother

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governess

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this is the beginning of the professional … –people can make money off of their books

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authorship

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opening sentence is … –> 2nd sentence … it completely, it’s not shared among the single man entering the neighborhood

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ironic; undermines

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“But it is very likely that he may fall in love with one of them” tension between … and …

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very likely; may

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Austen taking the voice of … and defining Mrs. Bennet’s character

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omniscient narrator

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Mrs. Bennet is volatile, ignorant, and not very insightful. setup of this paragraph makes it seem as if Mr. bennet is …
relates what happens when women aren’t allowed to be ..
what is Mr. Bennet’s culpability? He’s left his daughters to become …

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belittling women; educated; like their mother

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opening sentence portrays a mockery of … that is simultaneously being declared. Truth is set up by women in neighborhood and fathers that want their daughters married. Marriage is declared to be a fundamentally …
Rich man is not allowed to be …, they can’t imagine a …

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social order; economic arrangement; single; single rich man

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Mrs. Bennet is very interested in trappings of Bingley’s

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ealth

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Mrs. Bennet doesn’t understand … –she’s …

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her husband at all; foolish

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Bennet is not the best father–retreats into his … to hide from his wife, and therefore …

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study; abandons his daughters

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very quickly establishes what marriage can be like when you have two … who are married. there is no … from this marriage –> more tragic for …, because he’s the more … one

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incompatible people; escape; Mr. Bennet; intelligent

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Novel takes attitude of … towards social order in which women have to get married–> slightly ….

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ironic detachment; critical

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slightly failed social structure that novel is … and working through

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satirizing

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social class order: 
... > ... (...) > ... > .../... 
gentry gaining more .., while aristocracy is falling
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aristocracy; gentry; bourgeoisie; tradesmen; lower class; poor; political power

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since marriage is the only pathway to avoid a poor house, it’s understable that people were desperate for it. Mrs. Bennet is afflicted because she hasn’t married an …, and he also has no … for her

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extremely rich man; respect

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Darcy not even kind enough to dance with someone to make them … in a social situation. Bingley, on the other hand, is kind. Darcy is incredibly …

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feel better; arrogant

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Jane and Elizabeth somehow escaped

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foolishness

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different versions of … or … relationships exhibited through …

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married; imminently married; subplots

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Darcy is an arrogant character, prideful of his … and …

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wealth; standing

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31
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marriage plot resolves the issue of pride and prejudice, as the novel ends in a … However, is it a real resolution?

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happy ending

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everyone knows everyone, games of … being played out
small world that you can be … from very easily –> high stakes, if you don’t marry you can lose all your … by ending up in the ..

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social positions; ejected; status; poor house

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Elizabeth penetrates Darcy’s arrogance because of her own … and …

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intelligence; boldness

34
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… and maintaining it is dependent on marriage

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social position

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… is all that a woman has in this situation, which is why … is incredibly significant in this context
people also … and … because of what is at stake
leads to a society based on …, …, where stakes of … are incredibly high

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reputation; gossip; lie; hide information; rumor; innuendo; tainted reputation

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bad reputation for a woman: the idea that she might be a …, or that she may not be a …

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flirt; virgin

37
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gossip becomes a part of the drama, ratcheting up the …, but it also acts as a … in this society

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tension; weapon

38
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most of the people in Jane Austen’s world are not …

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nice

39
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Charlotte’s views on marriage: she focuses primarily on the … aspect of it. Again repeating notion that marriage is an … decision

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financial; economic

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… of the aristocracy did not have many opportunities available

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younger sons

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the price for trying to subvert the ideals essential to that social structure resulted in …: women …, and life becomes incredibly difficult without …

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ejection from one’s social group; shamed; family’s support

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in this society everything is …, little actions have highs takes

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exacerbated

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Collins wants to please people who are his … He also thinks that he’s doing Elizabeth and women a … by marrying them. Setting up marriage as a … by saying that he wants to set up matrimony as an example –> to make a certain kind of social structure absolutely normative

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social superiors; favor; norm

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Unmarried woman becomes a … –> never considered an …, these women are …

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social threat; adult; dependent

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Collins is a … Does anything to please … He ingratiates himself by sneaking into her life and then drops her name everywhere, integrating it into every conversation he has

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social climber; Lady Catherine

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Jane Austen uses Collins’s own words to mock … and …. through the use of the term …
Catherine is giving …, which is obnoxious. She is a .., … woman who is a bit of a …

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Collins; Lady Catherine; condescension; unasked for advice; supercilious; aristocratic; bully

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Collins is so … that he doesn’t know what he’s saying

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clueless

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Lady Catherine is a … (her husband is …)

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dowager; dead

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Catherine is an overpowering woman who

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tells people what to do

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Collins’s first reason that as a clergyman, he must marry, comes from …
He needs a wife because he needs a … (“able to make a small income go a good way”) –> division of …, … work for women

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Lady Catherine; housekeeper; labor; endless

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according to social arrangements of the time, it was kind of as if you were marrying the … as well

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entire family

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Austen showed a … world where everyone’s … –> can’t really get away from it
Women, particularly, are trapped in it because they don’t do anything else (i.e. work)

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closed; trapped

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… is what constitutes the social world, importance of which is shown through how Collins … —> he adopts Lady Catherine’s ideas as …

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talk; speaks; his own

54
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Charlotte talks about a man and woman in a relationship interpreting each other–> if a woman expresses her feelings, she’s considered

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forward

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novel is … about marriage –> most people are in a … arrangement, exposed as structure of … of … and …

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damning; trapped; inequity; power; affection

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novel is not … or … about marriage, presents it as a necessary … –> not a .. institution, no one is seeking it for its own sake in this novel, everyone in the novel also knows what it’s about

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romantic; happy; evil; happy;

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According to first proposal, Darcy did not want to … Elizabeth, trying to .. his feelings.
“She stared, coloured, doubted, and was silent. This he considered sufficient encouragement”

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love; repress

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Austen writes “He was not more eloquent..”, the framing of which makes it sound

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deadpan

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Darcy tells Elizabeth that he would be … by marrying her –> puts her in a position of … and him in a position of constantly … her
family obstacles too, saying that his rational self should … for her

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degraded; gratitude; resenting; overcome his feelings

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Darcy believes that Elizabeth will accept him merely for his

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social standing

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“She could not be insensible to the compliment of such a man’s affection” –> she felt … in spite of herself, because he is a rich and handsome man. However, she becomes increasingly … as he continues speaking

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complimented; angry

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elizabeth would have to have been extremely … to accept Darcy’s suit

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pathetic

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Eliza tells Darcy that if she could feel gratitude, she’d … But she doesn’t. She says that, since loving her is such a terrible thing, he should …
harshness of her rejection is directly correlated to the .. of his proposal, which is entirely shaped by his sense of … and …

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thank him; get over her quickly; obnoxious nature; pride; arrogance

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At Eliza’s response, Darcy felt … and was …, even though he insulted her. The relationship would have been a disaster, because in the moment that he presents his love for her, he simultaneously presents profound … Darcy has no self-consciousness of how … he was in proposing

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resentment; surprised;

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part of the dialogue between liz and darcy is that eliza … back at him

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throws his language

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Elizabeth says that even if she cared for Darcy she wouldn’t marry him bc he ruined

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her sister’s happiness

67
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“he even looked at her with a smile of affected incredulity” Darcy pretending to be …, he’s being sarcastic

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surprised

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Elizabeth’s prejudice against Darcy, and toward Wickham, makes it easier for them to be … at the end–> she’s wrong on …, but she’s right on …

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reconciled; Wickham; his arrogance

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Darcy has a … struggle, that should have nothing to do with Elizabeth

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sexual

70
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Pride and Prejudice is an … title, because Elizabeth’s prejudice is not as … as Darcy’s pride, because she was wrong on Wickham, but his … for her was the primary issue. Plus, Darcy … at the end, so she wasn’t really wrong either

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unbalanced; huge;; contempt; changed

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Gradual overcoming of certain … in their relationship. Darcy becomes somewhat … towards the end

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obstacles; humbler

72
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Marriage becomes a …, and love becomes a way by which men can be … –> woman … the man, woman’s duty to …

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narrative; redeemed; redeem; save the man from himself

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idea is that woman can … and it is her duty to make him .. (cultural expectation, cultural narrative here)
Bad way to enter a relationship: “I’m gonna change him” derives from this attitude
Woman becomes a … in the man’s …, becomes …

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better; prop; moral drama; secondary

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idea is that a ‘good’ woman is supposed to have .., … them, and … the man at the same time
shows men as …, that women have to save
part of … structure, flip of creation story

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kids; raise; save; weak moral beings; companionate

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woman is not .., but she is incredibly … –> notion that unequal person is still responsible of one’s … (same idea as presented by the abusive ‘you made me do it,’ reflected in …structures too–> ascription of … to person who was actually …)

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equal; powerful; goodness; racial; criminality; harmed

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“you made me”: deferral of your actual …, presents a … in the abuser
as power is being asserted, it’s being … and … onto the victim –> powerful get to exercise their power in … ways, while also … the responsibility upon the victim

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responsibility; weakness; disowned; displaced; violent; displacing

77
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the erasure of equality in the name of … through … marriage–> … of a woman

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equality; companionate; burdens

78
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marriage plot takes over … in a particular way
derives from Christian, Protestant, Anglican vies, of which companionate marriage is a part
acquires a … of its own which comes with a certain … structure for women, in which their morality should overcome the man’s. Women are … in terms of morality. they should be … than the man –> it’s not a narrative of equality

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modern wife; life; moral; disproportionately burdened; better

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novel is a form that comes with its own … and … Form that sometimes, because of its … and …, in its need to resolve conflict, it can … its …
As it resolves certain issues, it can give illusions that some things can’t be …, becomes some things are above the …

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morality; ethics; structure; resolution; paper over; differences; resolved; plot

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