but she is “quickened with all of incident, life, fire, feeling, that I desired and had not in my actual existence”.
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Card 7
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Jane is unable to have ‘fire’ and ‘feeling’ in her life because she is confined by society’s expectations of women.
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Card 8
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however, the nineteenth century reader would be shocked to hear that ‘women feel as men feel’ as it went against typical gender stereotypes of the time.
