social desirability, appearance and society Flashcards
peter identifies clarissas superficiality - she does herself-
“ but peter - however beautiful the day might be, and the trees and the little girl in pink - peter neveer saw a thing of all that”
jane recognises the superficiality in Adele being raised as a upper class girl already - “ there was something ludicrous as well as painful in the little parisiennes earnest and innate devotion to matters of dress”
mrs dalloway is aware of her age - “ she felt very young; at the same time unspeakably aged” and appearance she thinks she has a “ridiculous little face”
jane is not so concerned about her age she is said to be a ‘maturing youth’ but she is concerened about appearance - “ I sometimes regretted that I was not handsomer”
- she is “obliged to be plain—for I had no article of attire that was not made with extreme simplicity”
septimus does not meet the criteria of being socially
desirable to his doctors - “nothing whatever is the matter” he is advised to go “play golf” or “go to a music hall”
jane is not considered to look nice by servants - idea of everyone in society judging others based on appeareance not personality- “poor miss jane is to be pities to” but “yes, if she were a pretty child one might be compassionate to her”
Lucrezia wants to assimilate into society and knows septimus state is not socially desirable - “people must notice; people must see”
rochester also kept bertha mason hidden because he wanted to be socially desirable - “shelter her degradation with secrecy and leave her”
William Bradshaw - wants to make ‘england prosper’ ought to ‘seculuded lunatics, forbade childbirth.. until they too shared his sense of proportion
similar to Mr rochester - keeping her ‘safely lodged in that third story room’ was his solution and keeping her secluded
mrs dalloway is racist - “indian women .. silly flimsy nincompoops”
mr rochester dressed in black face and jane says she saw bertha’s ‘discoloured face” “her mother the creole”
clarissa is a “perfect hostess” “she had the makings of a perfect hostess” (Clarissa cried over it in her bedroom)
rochester also keeps up a persona when amongst upper class “mr rochester is so talented and so lively in society”
times are changing - peter- “those years 1918-23 had been he suspected very important, people looked different”
jane longs to be part of changing times - “i desired a more practical experience than i possessed that was here within my reach’
peter thinks rezia and septimus fighting “that is being young”
in jane eyre conflict is not seen as being young rather it is a positive experience but also negetive sometimes like the deaths at lowood school - “forty five out of the eighty girls lay ill at one time”
peter thinks he is not old - “he was not old or set or dried in the least”
rochester - “i have the right to be masterful .. on the grounds i state; namely that i am old enough to be your father.”
