Key Quotations (AQA A-Level English Literature A): Flashcards

Middle-class values: respectability, comfort, social conformity

As valuable personal property that has suffered damage

Women who efface themselves as individuals to serve family

To erase or obliterate one's selfhood/individuality

Would give life for them, but won't give up her essential self

Never again to belong to another than herself

Sensuous pleasure, solitary self-exploration, and escape

Bodily and spiritual independence; controlling body and soul

Failed attempt to transcend social constraints; unable to fly

Leaves because he loves her; love and freedom are incompatible