ENGL 220 Lecture Notes - Lecture 17: Heteronormativity
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She struggles throughout the story to find her identity. She marries up the class system when she marries maxim. She is more of the gothic hero. Arguably, she is a traditional not gothic heroine. She is an accessory like an ornamental object as she just is known as wife. She just wants her husband to lover. She is lost in the maze of the house. She does not know the position of the wife. When she marries maxim she is now in the aristocracy which puts a ton of pressure on her. There is a great deal of surveillance on the aristocracy to make sure they are acting the right away. With all the pressure of being in the aristocracy gives her anxiety. She is lost in the role of her sexual female. She is always being compared to rebecca. He is swerving notions of class because he is marrying a girl of lower class.
