PRACTICA 7: JANE EYRE Chapter XXVII “Jane‚ you understand what I want of you? Just this promise—‘I will be yours‚ Mr. Rochester.’” “Mr. Rochester‚ I will not be yours.” Another long silence. “Jane!” recommenced he‚ with a gentleness that broke me down with grief‚ and turned me stone-cold with ominous terror—for this still voice was the pant of a lion rising—“Jane‚ do you mean to go one way in the world‚ and to let me go another?” “I do.” “Jane” (bending towards and
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Jane Austen’s novels at first glance tell a story of romance set primarily within the landowning society amidst country estates‚ and their cultivation of tea parties‚ social outings‚ and extravagant balls; ladies sashaying in flowing gowns through precisely decorated rooms‚ and men deliberating over their game of whist. The storybook romance usually unfolds in these familiar settings‚ and inevitably involves the conflict of two lovers separated by differences in social class‚ and the resulting influence
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When Jane returns to Thornfield after her first‚ unofficial‚ meeting with Rochester‚ Brontë highlights glass as a border between the inside and outside. In this particular scene‚ Jane attempts to look into the building as she praises the evening sky. She “lingered at the gate…the shutters of the glass door were closed; I could not see into the interior; and both my eyes and spirit deemed drawn from the gloomy house…” While outside‚ Jane is unable to look in‚ which highlights the place of glass as
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THEORISTS OF THE MODERNIST NOVEL In the early twentieth century the modernist novel exploded literary conventions and expectations‚ challenging representations of reality‚ consciousness and identity.These novels were not simply creative masterpieces but also crucial articulations of revolutionary developments in critical thought. In this volume Deborah Parsons traces the developing modernist aesthetic in the thought and writings of James Joyce‚ Dorothy Richardson and Virginia Woolf. Considering
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How does Austen present marriage in Pride and Prejudice? Throughout ’Pride and Prejudice’ Jane Austen conveys the theme of marriage of being of paramount importance. The first line of ‘Pride and Prejudice’ defines the main themes of Austen’s’ novel‚ as well as subtly giving the reader an insight of Austen’s views of marriage. Her use of hyperbole ‘That a man in possession of good fortune‚ must be in want of a wife’ hints at a somewhat mocking and ironic tone on Austen’s part‚ which indicates to
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What is T. S. Eliot’s View on Historical Sense in "Tradition and the Individual Talent."? Eliot writes about "historical sense" in "Tradition and the Individual Talent." He writes that the historical sense "involves a perception‚ not only of the pastness of the past‚ but of its presence" and it is "a sense of the timeless as well as of the temporal and of the timeless and the temporal together‚ is what makes a writer traditional." In this essay‚ Eliot does not describe "traditional" as old-fashioned
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Regina Tyler History 101 November 27‚2013 In the novel Kindred Butler confronts us with differences of black and white and past and present. All of the issues in Kindred are derived from issues of black and white. Dana’s race and literacy is what defines her in the 1800’s in Maryland and in 1976 in California. As a reader I’m yanked between past and present as well as the characters Dana and Kevin. Dana and her husband are forced to experience slavery in Maryland and their home in California
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JANE EYRE In the novel‚ ‘Jane Eyre’ by Charlotte Bronte‚ setting is used throughout the novel to illustrate the development in the character. The novel is revolved around five separate locations‚ ; the Reed family’s home at Gateshead‚ the wretched Lowood School‚ Rochester’s manor‚ Thornfield‚ the Rivers family’s home at Moor House‚ and Rochester’s rural retreat at Ferndean‚ these settings all play a very important part in Jane’s life as they all represent the development of Jane’s character and
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worthless to society”-Charles Gow Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte is a buildensroman novel entailing the growth of young‚ shy‚ and abused Jane to adulthood. The novel depicts a message of loss of innocence through the Victorian society; filled with expectations and opinions of a higher social class. Bronte does this successfully through using many different symbols in the novel such as: vision‚ the red-room and Bertha Mason. Vision‚ the most common symbol in the novel‚ signifies Jane’s emotional view
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AP English III Charlotte Bronte wrote Jane Eyre in 1847‚ when men were far superior to women. That is why a major debate remains on whether Jane Eyre is a feminist novel or not. It would not be surprising to say that the novel has very feminist undertones because of the time period‚ the Victorian Era‚ in which women were treated poorly. However‚ one could argue that Jane Eyre is actually an anti-feminist novel due to some of the context throughout the story. Both these feminist and anti-feminist
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