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