Angel in the House 👼
She is a gentle, obedient woman in Tom Jones, considered the “ideal wife” for her loyalty and submission.
Who is Sophia Western?
She refuses to become Mr. Rochester’s mistress, asserting her moral autonomy in Jane Eyre.
Who is Jane Eyre?
She is raped, deemed impure, and ultimately executed in Hardy’s Tess of the d’Urbervilles.
Who is Tess Durbeyfield?
This 20th-century novel by Jean Rhys features Sasha, a woman grappling with exile and poverty.
What is Good Morning, Midnight?
This phrase describes the 19th-century belief that women were valuable only if sexually untouched.
What is "virtue equals value"?
This 19th-century character from Bleak House epitomizes domestic virtue and moral purity despite her illegitimate birth.
Who is Esther Summerson?
This heroine becomes a mistress and earns her fortune, defying social norms in Defoe’s Roxana.
Who is Roxana?
This Tolstoy heroine is consumed by despair after defying social conventions for love.
Who is Anna Karenina?
This 19th-century Gaskell heroine serves as a moral bridge between working-class and industrial elite.
Who is Margaret Hale?
This Romantic heroine archetype endures trauma with emotional restraint and always gets married in the end.
What is the Virtuous Victim or Romantic Heroine?
The "Angel in the House" archetype is named after a poem by this 19th-century author.
Who is Coventry Patmore?
In Lady Chatterley’s Lover, this character defies class and sexual expectations in pursuit of personal freedom.
Who is Lady Constance Chatterley?
This archetype is often sympathetic, punished for sexual transgression, and reflective of societal hypocrisy.
What is the Fallen Woman?
In White Teeth, Zadie Smith explores the experience of women navigating generational and cultural identity.
Who are immigrant or postcolonial women?
She uses flirtation and beauty as power, only to be punished for it in Joseph Andrews.
Who is Jane Booby?
This theme refers to a woman putting her family and others before herself, often with quiet endurance.
What is self-sacrifice?
Known as a rebellious teacher, this character from The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie manipulates her students while representing female autonomy.
Who is Miss Jean Brodie?
Gothic heroines like Adeline in The Romance of the Forest often maintain this trait despite trauma.
What is moral purity?
This term describes the psychological and cultural experience of living between two or more identities.
What is hybridity or diaspora?
Name one purpose of portraying women like Clarissa Harlowe or Esther Summerson as morally upright despite their suffering.
What is to critique double standards or to provide moral instruction?
Esther's humility and caretaking role serve to reinforce what dominant 19th-century ideology about women?
What is Victorian domesticity or Victorian ideals of womanhood?
This archetype embodies moral independence and self-definition in defiance of patriarchy and social class.
What is the Rebellious Heroine?
These three archetypes often suffer for defying gender norms: The Fallen Angel, the Disillusioned Idealist, and this role.
What is the Tragic Heroine?
What literary theme is explored through both Sasha’s alienation and Margaret Hale’s class navigation?
What is identity in transition or the working woman’s moral strength?
This recurring archetype is emotionally intuitive, often faints, and symbolizes ideal femininity.
What is the Fainting Innocent?