"That Hideous Strength" Chapter 7: On Marriage, Love and Obedience

Contexts

You will present your ideas on 4 contextual aspects of our novels:

• Eugenics in the twentieth century- Margaret Sanger
• Ideologies of the inhuman - Nazism and the Master Race
• The Sex Planners - Alfred Kinsey
• The Use of Propaganda

The Pendragon

Referring closely to chapter 7, discuss and take notes on these questions:

1. How has Jane come to be at St Anne's again in this chapter?
2. What does Miss Ironwood tell Jane about the Director before she meets him?
3. What impression does this create for the reader?
4. What further impressions of the Director do we get from the descriptions on pages 188-190?
5. What do we learn about Jane's views on marriage from her conversation with the Director?
6. How does it differ from the Director's views?
7. What does the Director mean when he says "you...have lost love because you never attempted obedience?" (195)
8. What "four Janes" return to Edgestow by train after this meeting (199ff)?
9. What happens to Jane on her return ?
10. How does Jane get back to St Anne's and why is this significant?

Homework: Moonlight at Belbury

Re-read chapter 8 and make notes on what more we learn about the NICE and its intentions in creating "the New Man".

Image: Eugenicist Margaret Sanger.