LITERATURE QUESTIONS
THE VICTORIAN NOVEL
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[CLICK ON ANY CHOICE TO KNOW THE RIGHT ANSWER]
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A midwife or nurse, a woman who did not marry but who served married women in their time of need
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A false-god, an idol who was really a femme-fatale and who should be avoided
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A woman who vowed to wear only white, as a symbol of purity, and who likewise vowed never to leave the house where she lived, but directed family affairs from the drawing room
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Detailed explanation-1: -“The Angel in the House” is “intensely sympathetic, ” “immensely charming, ” “utterly unselfish” and will do anything to not let women be happy and let them have their freedom. In order to have “a mind of their own, ” women need to be start being selfish and start looking out for their selfs.
Detailed explanation-2: -The popular Victorian image of the ideal wife/woman came to be “the Angel in the House"; she was expected to be devoted and submissive to her husband. The Angel was passive and powerless, meek, charming, graceful, sympathetic, self-sacrificing, pious, and above all–pure.
Detailed explanation-3: -Her purity was supposed to be her chief beauty-her blushes, her great grace.
Detailed explanation-4: -Coventry Patmore’s popular, long narrative poem The Angel in the House was published in parts between 1854 and 1862. Inspired by his wife, Emily, the poem charts their traditional courtship and marriage.