Jane Eyre

Charlotte Brontë

JANE EYRE

Presentation by: Ruchi

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SUmmary

• Protagonist: Jane Eyre
• Poor, orphaned girl
• Follows her journey through life
• 5 settings = stages of life

• Antagonist: Society - represented by characters and settings
• Control over self, women passiveness, victorian class system

Important EVENTS/Settings

Gateshead

Lowood Private School

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Childhood

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Thornfield Hall

Moor

House

30's and older

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Ferndean

CHARACTER STUDY

• Independent, strong character-throughout story

• Lost->Finds herself

• Passion and principle balance
• Passionate child->Confused->Mature adult
• Struggles against societal forces
• Relationship with Rochester
• Expressive
• One of the first opinionated woman portrayed
• "Autobiography"

Jane

Eyre

LITERARY CRITICISM

Gothic Doppelgangers and Discourse:Examining the Doubling Practice of (Re)marriage in Jane Eyre

• Jane as Bertha's doppelganger
• (Re)marriage as a trap
• Marriage for utility and selfishness
• Foreshadows recurrence - objectification and powerlessness
• Deceptive - fortune teller, garden scene
• Bertha resists, Rochester acknowledgement

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It is in vain to say human beings ought to be satisfied with tranquility: they must have action; and they will make it if they cannot find it.

Charlotte Bronte

in Jane Eyre

AUTHOR'S STYLE

Purposeful

"..a pleasure like what the thirst-perishing man might feel who knows the well to which he has crept is poisoned, yet stoops and drinks divine draughts nevertheless"

Symbolic, Tense shifts, Wording

Not straightforward

See quote

Constant Allusions

Biblical, Shakesperian, PL, WH, other random stories

Descriptive

Specifc scenes

THEMES/MOTIFS

Stereotypes

Nature

Imprisonment

Home/Belonging

Love/Autonomy

Fate/Destiny

REVIEW

• Lengthy (521 pgs)
• Inconsistent speed
• Hard to understand at times
• Good characters
• Good story
• Enjoyed author's style
• Footnotes<3
• Liked reading it

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