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10 Cards in this Set
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Society, Class and Propriety |
- "without a hat?" - "the long glasses in which, for the first time, I could see myself from head to foot" - "sign of familiarity of his wearing no hat" - "but if he isn't a gentleman?" "what is he? He's a horror" - "I doubtless needn't press too hard... On the place of a servant on the scale" - "My councillor couldn't read!" - "stupid, sordid headmasters" - (of servants) "they don't much count, do they?" - "the apparition had reached the landing halfway up" |
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Power and Possession |
- "I walked in a world of their invention" - "instead of challenging their own irregularity I found myself arraigned and explaining" - "they were in possession of everything that had ever happened to me" - "where, my pet, is miss jessel?" -" they haven't been good- they've only been absent", "they're not mine- they're not ours. They're his and they're hers!" - "little natural man" - "little Flora had conducted me" |
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Repressed Desires |
- "catching my pupil in my arms, [I] covered her in kisses" - "she was the most beautiful child I had ever seen" - "this queer business of ours" - "our perfect intercourse" -" he really - as they say- had me" - "he was gentleness itself" - "the fellow was a hound" - "incredibly beautiful" - "great glow of freshness" - "positive fragrance of purity" |
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Madness and Paranoia |
- "he was absolutely, on this occasion, a living detestable dangerous presence" - "I began to watch them in a stifled response... which may well... Have turned to something like madness" - "the strange steps of my obsession" - "there was many a corner round which I expected to come upon Quint" -" in my room, filing myself about" "broke down into the monstrous utterance of names" - "My hands -but it was for pure tenderness- shook him" |
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Good and Evil/Right and Wrong |
- "a sentinel before a prison" - "I was there to protect and defend the little creatures" - "My hands - but it was for pure tenderness- shook him" - "he was absolutely... A detestable dangerous presence" |
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Literature and Writing |
"my councilor couldn't read!" "I can hear again as I write" "I saw him as I see the letters I form on this page" "I don't mean by this, of course, that we studied only fiction and verse" |
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Narrators Unreliability |
"I fancied myself, in short, a remarkable young woman" "I was under the spell... I perfectly knew I was" "exact transcript of my own made much later" "Do you mean she spoke?" "It came to that" |
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Wisdom and Knowledge |
"Please Miss, I must get back to my work" "He was to clever for a bad governess... to spoil" "He could do what he liked, with all his cleverness to help him" |
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Gender |
"the departing ladies who said they would stay didn't, of course, thank heaven, stay" "Simple stout plain clean wholesome woman" "she took me in her motherly breast" "the fellow was a hound" "little natural man" "It has made her... Quote old" "little girls can be slavish idolaters of little boys" "his 'my dear' was constantly on his lips for me" "it's beyond everything, for a young lady" |
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Ghosts- Real or Fake |
"my imagination had - in a flash - tired real. He did stand there!" "you don't see her exactly as we see? She's as big as a blazing fire!" "she isn't there, little lady, and nobody's there- and you never see nothing, my sweet" "I don't know what you mean. I see nothing. I never have." |
