CDF Citation
GarcĂa MĂĄrquez, Gabriel. Chronicle of a Death Foretold. Translated by Gregory Rabassa, Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group, 2003.
CDF quote 1
âThe brothers were brought up to be men. The girls had been reared to get marriedâŠâTheyâre perfect,â [PurĂsma del Carmen] was frequently heard to say. âAny man will be happy with them because theyâve been raised to sufferââ (GarcĂa MĂĄrquez 31)
CDF quote 2
ââI knew what they were up to,â [Prudencia Cotes] told me, âand I didnât only agree, I never would have married [Pablo] if he hadnât done what a man should doââ (GarcĂa MĂĄrquez 62).
CDF quote 3
ââIt was very easy,â [Angela Vicario] told me, âbecause Iâd made up my mind to dieââ (GarcĂa MĂĄrquez 91).
Jane Eyre Citation
Brontë, Charlotte. Jane Eyre. Bantam Classics, 1987.
JE quote 1
âI love you better now⊠than I did in your state of proud independence, when you disdained every part but that of the giver and protectorâ (BrontĂ« 485).
JE quote 2
â... the longer I considered the position, education, &c., of the parties, the less I felt justified in judging and blaming either him or Miss Ingram for acting in conformity to ideas and principles instilled into them, doubtless, from their childhoodâ (BrontĂ« 199).
JE quote 3
âPoverty looks grim to grown people⊠they think of the word only as connected with ragged clothes, scanty food, fireless grates, rude manners, and debasing vices: poverty for me was synonymous with degradationâ (BrontĂ« 20).
Oliver Twist Citation
Dickens, Charles. Oliver Twist. Vintage Books, 2012.
OT quote 1
âThis was a vagrant of sixty-five who was going to prison⊠for begging in the streets, and doing nothing for his livelihood. In the next cell, was another man, who was going to the same prison for⊠doing something for his living, in defiance of the Stamp-officeâ (Dickens 93).
OT quote 2
ââThe prerogative of a man is to command.â âAnd whatâs the prerogative of a womanâŠ?â cried [Mrs. Bumble]. âTo obey, maâam,â thundered Mr. Bumble. âYour late unfortunate husband should have taught it youâŠââ (Dickens 271).