Women Flashcards
1
Q
Scatchard
A
“You dirty disagreeable girl; you have never cleaned your nails this morning!”
2
Q
Blanche
A
“Tall, fine bust, olive complexion… eyes rather like Mr Rochester’s: large and black, and as brilliant as her jewels”
3
Q
Blanche
A
“Moulded like a Dian”
4
Q
Rochester about Bertha
A
“Unchaste”
5
Q
Bertha
A
“Tongues of flame farted around the bed”
6
Q
Critic Showalter
A
“The periodicity of Bertha’s attacks suggests a connection to the menstrual cycle”
7
Q
Critic Gilbert and Gubar
A
“Bertha breaks all conventions women were supposed to conform to”
8
Q
Critic Worrall
A
“Jane refuses to subscribe to the Victorian mantra”
