The Years- The body Flashcards

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1880- kitty

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Kitty admires Joe Robson- reminds her of farm hand she first kissed- needs to be wanted
obsessed with her appearance and size- all obsessed to a degree
Decides she I’ll try to marry Lord Laswade- more appropriate for her

Relations all boil down to what is appropriate - identity decided for you

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1907- Sarah

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Central figure is Sarah
Joined by Maggie, her sister, and she is curious about the world and what it has to offer.
Goes against gendered expectations at the timthe- separate spheres for men and women

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1907- intellect

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Sarah has a book that is a present from Edward- women’s entry into intellectual sphere can only be through men.
Relationship between education and her wandering thoughts are not aligned
Gendered question placed oddly with daily duties- wants more from life

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1910- leave the men to their politics

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Stresses gender spheres are rife within society ‘leave the men to their politics’- have to leave the room, alluded to idea women were not supposed to be around such conversations.

Highlights Woolfs possible own need for more from gender relations and politics- she is not a contextualised women like Cecilia

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1907- noted to be nonsense

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Explores ideas of gender roles- confined in a room away from the party- engaged in conversations ‘noted to be nonsense’ and away from exploring life and relationships

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1930- truth

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Truth in gender spheres and separate truth in gender divides

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Infidelity

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Colonel partiger has a mistress called Myra when his wife is dying.
Sex and relationships are separate for men, but not for women.
Comment on patriarchal society.

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Present day

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Eleanor feels as though she has no life or meaning- does life have any shape or order? Relates to Lawrence’s writing style BUT comments directly on gender

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Inadmissible space

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Emphasised through Delia Partiger who fantasises about Charles Stuart Parnell- private now becoming public.

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‘This is too short, too broken. We know nothing, even about ourselves’

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Has to be more to life than these people and this way of life

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When shall we be free? When shall we live adventoursly and wholly, not like crippled in a cave’

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Constrained by society

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