Animals
In Agnes Grey, animals symbolize the vulnerability of lower-status people to higher-status people in social hierarchies: just as poorly raised children abuse animals, so poorly raised high-status adults abuse lower-status adults, such as their…
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Flowers
In Agnes Grey, flowers represent the difference between Agnes Grey’s beliefs about love and those of her flirtatious student Rosalie Murray: whereas Agnes believes that love derives from shared values and mutual…
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