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Freedom and Confinement HoM Quotes

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She was so evidently the victim of the civilization which had produced her that the links of her bracelet seemed like manacles chaining her to her fate.
Lily and manacles quotes
She likes being good. And I like being happy. Besides, she is free and I am not.
Happy if you're married, free if you're not
Don't you ever mind' she asked suddenly, 'not being rich enough to buy all the books you want?
Poverty and freedom
A girl must, a man may if he chooses.
Differing expectations for men and women surrounding marriage.
Why could one never do a natural thing without having to screen it behind a structure of artifice.
The pressure to conform.
It was a hateful fate, but how to escape from it? What choice had she? To be herself or a Gerty Farish?
Lily and her marriage with Percy Gryce
How alluring the world outside the cage appeared to Lily, as she heard the door clang on her!
Lily aware of her entrapment but unable to stop it.
[freedom] from everything- from money, from poverty, from ease and anxiety, from all the material accidents. To keep a republic of the spirit
Selden on the republic of the spirit
She felt as though she were buried alive in the stifling limits of Mrs. Peniston's existence.
Lily revolting against Mrs. Peniston's house
In the long moment before the curtain fell, he had time to feel the whole tragedy of her life
Hints that Lily's story is a tragic one
She had more than once been in situations where a quick sword play of wit had been needful to cover her retreat; but her frightened heart-throbs told her that such skill would not avail
Lily powerless to Trenor
Sometimes I think it's because, at heart, she despises the thing she is trying for
Judy Trenor describes Lily's struggle against fate
In the freedom of speech that never arrived at wit and the freedom of act which never made for romance
Selden illustrating the ways in which simply having the choice to be free doesn't mean it can be achieved
What is truth? Where a woman is concerned, it's the story that's easiest to believe. In this case it's a great deal easier to believe Bertha Dorset
The power money has to influence truth and therefore freedom
More noise, more colour, more champagne, more familiarity - but also greater good nature, less rivalry, and a fresher capacity for enjoyment
Lily on the difference between high society and the Gormers' party
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