Marriage quotes; AO5

Sense and Jane flashcards for paper two - on the theme of marriage

Marianne on marriage (early on)

“I am convinced I shall never see a man whom I can truly love!”

Opinion on marianne and Brandon as a couple

“he was rich and she was handsome”

Elinor and Edward on the finance aspect of their engagment

They were neither quite enough in love to think £350 would suffice

Marianne’s view on Elinor and Edward at the end

“one of the happiest couples in the world”C

Charlotte Palmer and her husband

“the strange unsuitableness that existed between husband and wife”

Lady middleton and John description

Sir John was a sportsman, Lady Middleton was a mother

Marianne and Brandon at the end

In time, her whole heart became devoted to Brandon

What Elinor and Edward have left to want

They had nothing left to wish for but the marriage of of her sister

Elinor to Edward about marrying Lucy

It would be better for her to marry you than be single

more on Elinor and Edward at the end

Their intimate knowledge of eachother made their happiness certain

John Mullan on marriage

Austen endorses the aim of marrying for love

Brownstien on the ending/marriage

“Austen gives pride of place to the girls attachments to one another, making their second attachments (to their husbands) seem merely secondary”

Katherine Limmer on marriage

Marriage was the only respectable way for the girls to improve their social standing

AO3 on marriage:

• Married womans property act (1887, upon marriage a woman’s assets became her husbands)

• Law of abridgement - only a woman could break off the engagement

• Queen Victoria & the love match

• Film adaption (1995, Ange Lee) - have a grand wedding at the end of SSbility

• Freedom with marriage

• Age of Romantacism

Jane at the end of B2 about rochester

My future husband was becoming more than my world

Jane on marrying SJ

To marry you would be a premature death

More Jane and SJ

To marry you would kill me. You are killing me now

Rochester V2 ‘proposing’ to Jane

I entreat you to be my husband

SJ proposing to Jane

You shall be mine - I claim you

Jane’s opinion on why rochester would be with Blanche

Her rank and connections suited him

Mrs Fairfax on Jane and Rochester

Men of his station are not accustomed to marry their governesses

Jane at the end with rochester

I am my husbands life as he is mine

More Jane and Rochester at the end

precisely suited/perfect concord

Jane helping Rochester

I was the apple of his eye

More jane helping rochester

I served as his prop and guide

Marianne’s position after marrying Brandon

Wife, mistress of the house, patroness of the village

Wyatt about marriage

“Janes fairytale tone reinforces the view that…if you marry the right man, you will be happy”

How happy is Jane with Rochester?

To be his wife is the happiest I can be on earth

Wyatt on female relationships

Diana and Mary marry at the end… reinforcing what makes a woman truly happy is love and marriage - time spent with other women is merely a prelude

Helen Small (90’s) on love/marriage

Love emerges in Jane Eyre as a battle of wills

Williams on Jane and marriage (21st century)

Marriage puts Jane in a subservient position, not sinjin’s lack of love for her

What Mrs Jennings does with her time

She had nothing left to do but marry the whole world

According to her half brother, what will happen to Marianne’s marital prospects

I question whether She will now marry a man worth more than £600

John Dashwood on Marianne’s appearance post illness

Anything of illness destroys the bloom forever!