Jane Eyre

    Cards (19)

    • Bernhardt: 'Radical and unconventional, Jane breaks free of class and gender orientated barriers like a bird soaring from its cage'
    • Nogay: 'Jane must navigate society as she progresses from student to teacher to governess to wife'
    • Hussein: 'As the novel progresses, Jane migrates to a series of locations that help her develop her true character and eventually give rise to her independence'
    • DeConto: 'Brontë aims, among other things to expose the plight of her female contemporaries and offer a strong suggestion as to how the injustices faced by women might be rectified'
    • Polti: 'Jane cannot be placed in the slot of working class, neither can she be considered part of her aunt's class'
    • Gilbert and Gubar: 'the red room represents her vision of the society in which she is trapped, an uneasy and elfin dependent'
    • Showalter: 'Women... police each other on behalf of patriarchal tyranny'
    • Meyer: 'Rochester compares his relationships with women to keeping slaves'
    • Lord David Cecil: 'The novel is all about Bronte; all characters' thoughts and feelings are actually hers'
    • Allen: 'it is a fantasy with obvious affinities with the Cinderella story'
    • In the Victorian era, children were supposed to be seen not heard
    • Women did not have autonomy or the vote
    • The only two jobs available to educated women were teacher or governess
    • Religion was a source of debate about God and social control, and marriage was necessary
    • Bronte uses the book to critique the misuse of religion
    • Charlotte Bronte wrote the novel under a pseudonym and it is semi-autobiographical
    • Bildungsroman
      Moral growth of protagonist from childhood to adulthood
    • Two of Charlotte Bronte's older sisters died from an outbreak of typhus
    • Many authors in the Gothic era wrote about the supernatural
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