quotes for things on Gender equality and the marriage market Flashcards

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quotes of the marriage marker

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“She was very showy but not genuine […] her mind was poor, her heart barren by nature. Nothing bloomed spontaneously on the soil” (for more in-depth analysis look at Jane and Mr Rochester’s relationship cards)

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quotes of the marriage marker

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“I saw he was going to marry her, for family, perhaps political reasons because her rank and connections suited him; I felt he had not given her his love”

“The obvious absence of passion in his sentiments towards her that my ever torturing pain arose”

We see Jane’s views on marriage and the marriage market. jane clearly thinks love is important in a relationship

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quotes for gender equality

Look at the social class cards as their is mentions on male oppression

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Women are supposed to be very calm generally: but women feel just as men feel; they need exercise for their faculties, and a field for their efforts as much as their brothers do; they suffer from too rigid a restraint, too absolute a stagnation, precisely as men would suffer; and it is narrow-minded in their more privileged fellow-creatures to say that they ought to confine themselves to making puddings and knitting stockings

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