Lifted Veil - George Eliot

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Mind Map on Lifted Veil - George Eliot, created by kam_ on 15/12/2015.
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Lifted Veil - George Eliot
  1. sympathy
    1. read to enter other people's perspectives, anomaly in Eliot's writing
      1. if you can see someone else's pov you can understand them
      2. narrator isn't sympathetic at all
        1. can enter other's minds, find them disgusting
      3. mind reading
        1. prevalent in culture, thought it could be real, blurred line between science and fantasy
        2. unconscious mind
          1. phrenology
            1. always negative, distorts view (depression - reflection of Eliot's own depression?)
              1. says father ignores him, but father goes with him to Genevra
                1. says brother is full of himself, but don't see any evidence of that
              2. gender
                1. female writing under male pseudonym, male pov character
                  1. woman comes back to life, can only speak when men allow
                  2. some people more predisposed to mind reading, illness and femininity connected to it
                    1. portrays worst stereotype of women
                      1. Bertha: beautiful but described in horrible terms
                        1. internalized mysoginy
                          1. told she wasn't beautiful, taken out on other women
                          2. science/objectivity/ration = male, not concerned about ethical
                            1. emotion
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