Jane Eyre Critics

    Cards (23)

    • Billington, "Physical spaces of the novel are images of female oppression."
    • Johnson,"It is clear that Jane must gain control over her passion or be destroyed."
    • Dunmore, "Jane would rather live alone than accept a relationship which comprimises her.
    • Worral, "Jane refused to subscribe to the Victorian mantra."
    • Politi, "The text celebrates the very ideology it sets out to expose."
    • Rigby, " Personification of an undisciplined spirit."
    • Rigby, "The novel is anti-Christian."
    • Anderson, "Rigid self control is the only way that one can survive Victorian society."
    • Bolt, "Jane was rewarded for her faith in God's work."
    • Anderson, "Jane has a strong sense of justice and questions too much."
    • Meyer, "Novel draws a parallel between slavery and Jane's social position."
    • Covert, "men deficient in morality are dependent on women to be their spiritual guides."
    • Ripple, "Marriage makes Jane a true woman."
    • Ripple, "Rochester and Jane merge physically."
    • Gilbert and Gubar, "Jane Eyre is an argument for equal rights of women."
    • Gilbert and Gubar, "Fairy tale meeting."
    • Gilbert and Gubar, "Bertha is an avatar of Jane."
    • Locy, "Jane's progress is somewhat deceiving as she always returns home."
    • Bronfen, " Helen reflects Jane's shy, self abnegation which must be transformed into boldness."
    • Solomon, "At Lowood, self control defaets Jane's passion."
    • Showalter, "when they marry they become equals."
    • Lorber, "Strange events are given rational explanations."
    • Keith, "Bronte is fascinated by the idea that one's exterior gives clues about their interior."
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