Difference between revisions of "Villette (Charlotte Brontë, 1853)"

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15 Lucy's "overheated and discursive imagination" vs Paulina
Paulina's monomania - Nelly says heathcliff is a monomaniac in Wuthering
17 "cup did not foam up" when Paulina and father reunited --CB dampening melodramatic expectations as in first chapter of shirley
20 Graham to Paulina: "I reckon on being able to get out of you a little of that precious commodity called amusement"
- a pre Marxian sense, as Freedgood 2006 would say
23 graham threatening to cut up the engraving Paulina likes to light candles
34 race and missionary English identity in Paulina's book
38 "We should be friendly to all, and worship none."
39 "the nightmare"; metaphorizing her depression (?) as falling overboard
- 41 mourning dress - gradual revelation
42 second time she's mentioned "character study," first Paulina and now Mrs Marchmont
43 disease heralded by atmospheric change?
49 vision instigated by Aurora borealis
62 vision of Europe followed by school copybook disavowal
71 "fate and providence" leading her to Madame Beck's pensionnat
82-3 compare description of school and pedagogy to Lowood in Jane Eyre
96 serial character studies structure: Paulina, Marchmont, Beck, Ginevra
106 fate again with reconnecting to Dr John
107 "he laid himself open to my observation" -- narration as espionage, which is explicitly thematized or represented through Mdme Beck

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 ===Shakespeare allusions===
 *78 "the head and front of her [Mrs Sweeny] offending" Othello
+*116 "that hag disappointment...all hail" Macbeth greeted by witches