Anissa B

This account was made specifically for my English 445 class at the University of Calgary. :)

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With my final tweet, I want to say a huge THANK YOU to @kbourrier for an awesome class this term! What a great way to end my degree. ☺️ #ENGL445

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Fascinating article about Joseph Litvak’s book that provides a queer reading of Jos’ character and extrapolates to queer performativity. Very interesting! #ENGL445 https://t.co/8vhkCWuc1A

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Andi made a great comment last class that’s resonating with me. Becky getting together with Jos just furthers Jos’ possible homosexuality, in that Becky is arguably the most masculine woman in the novel and the only one Jos has truly showed interest in. #ENGL445

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Reaching back, Rebecca “made Jos believe that it was his own great social talents and wit which gathered the society of the place round about him.” Again seems like the gender dynamics swapped here yet again with these two. #ENGL445

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I’m definitely the hopeless romantic who’s happy that Amelia and Dobbin finally get together. Like when Ross and Rachel did... that Friends parallel is perfect.😅 #ENGL445

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Jos dying is kind of a slap in the face... the only maybe-non-heterosexual character gets killed off. Whyyy 😰 #ENGL445

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“The hidden and awful Wisdom which apportions the destinies of mankind is pleased so to humiliate and cast down the tender, good, and wise; and to set up the selfish, the foolish, or the wicked.” Do we see this as true in Vanity Fair? Other texts? #ENGL445

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“How many...women...are doomed to endure this long slavery?—who are hospital nurses without wages,—sisters of Charity, if you like, without the romance and the sentiment of sacrifice,—who strive fast, watch, and suffer, unpitied, and fade away ignobally and unknown.” #ENGL445

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This quote in Vanity Fair goes back to our discussion last class of Jane Eyre and work prospects for women. It seems that the job prospects are dim and especially undesirable. #ENGL445

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Georgy "had been brought up by a kind, weak, and tender woman," but "Young Georgy lorded over this soft and yielding nature." Does this impact our view of Amelia? She is seen as weak by her own child who sees himself as better than her. My heart aches for this woman. #ENGL445

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Is Georgey becoming like his father? Is this a good thing? His grandfather is really not the best role model. With Ameila's false, positive rememberings of George, I almost forgot how horrible he was, but his son and father are doing a good job in reminding me. #ENGL445

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It really didn't hit me until now that youth drinking was a thing in the Victorian period. I know we saw young boys drink in Oliver Twist, but for some reason an 11-year-old Georgey getting drunk seems much worse. Maybe this is class-related? #ENGL445

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@wishartjane1 "Then you snatch love and innocence from me?" Rochester says to Jane when she is determined to leave. Interesting role reversal--rather than Rochester deflowering Jane (related to my previous tweet), she is taking his innocence by leaving (withholding herself). #ENGL445

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@wishartjane1 Totally! Rochester even says he was worried "that if [he] handled the flower freely its bloom would fade--the sweet charm of freshness would leave it" (314). He seems to fear losing interest in Jane (& Jane losing her value) if he had deflowered her--so, also about sex! #ENGL445

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"Hiring a mistress is the next worse thing to buying a slave: both are often by nature, and always by position, inferior; and to live familiarly with inferiors is degrading." Rochester makes me cringe. I question, though, what Bronte thought of these subjects. #ENGL445

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Jane speaks of Bertha, saying "she cannot help being mad." I feel this is a case of the chicken or the egg: Was Bertha mad all her life (genetic mental illness), or did she become mad due to ill-treatment (trauma-based mental illness)? Or, alternatively, is she even mad? #ENGL445

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"'No, you shall tear yourself away, none shall help you,'" Jane thought to herself while on the next page she "was supported by Mr. Rochester." The parallel is striking--does Jane have true agency in her decisions? #ENGL445 #JaneEyre

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I also never noticed the dedication when I previously read the novel. I wonder how Charlotte Brontë and Thackeray were connected. 🤔 #ENGL445 #JaneEyre

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The dark, depressing tone in Jane Eyre really does suit the Victorian Period. #ENGL445

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And a last one by Waterhouse from 1894: https://t.co/fWK1YvU6Dg #ENGL445 @kbourrier