Jane Eyre Thornfield Hall – Chapters 11-21 (1) Read the descriptions of Thornfield Hall on pages 116-118 and 123-126. a. What is Jane’s impression of Thornfield Hall? How does she find the atmosphere? b. What Gothic elements feature in its description? c. What references can you find to: * the colour red * birds * tombs or vaults (2) How does Charlotte Bronte create suspense and an air of foreboding in Chapter 11? (3)
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Molly Armanino Mr. Brown A.P. Literature 5 October 2010 A Path to Salvation “Know that a man is not justified by observing the law‚ but by faith in Jesus Christ”(Gal 2:16). In the novel Jane Eyre‚ Charlotte Bronte constructs young and independent Jane Eyre who finds love under strange circumstances and is faced with decisions concerning her own religious values and spirituality. Both St. John Rivers and Edward Rochester display two opposed views of how to achieve salvation. St. John
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Nature and weather Wuthering Heights by Emily Bronte and Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte: Nature and weather: play a very important role → described as the time and place in which an event occurs. It helps the reader to understand where the character is comming from. The weather reflects the character’s mind and it also can predict the future condition. Foreshadow positive events or moods and poor weather is their tool for setting the tone for negative events or moods. When the character is very
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about their rejoining or emancipation. Bertha Mason‚ in “Jane Eyre”‚ functions as the repressed‚ dark side of the obedient and docile protagonist Jane‚ while the southern spinster Emily Grierson‚ in “A Rose for Emily”‚ a victim of her time and circumstance‚ succumbs to the influence of inner duality when denied a more appropriate expression in society‚ causing the manifestation of the monstrous to occur within herself. By examining Jane‚ Bertha‚ and Emily‚ it is evident there exists a type of confinement
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for and about mothers. The Madwoman in the Attic was a landmark in feminist criticism. It focuses almost exclusively on the issue of gender in relation to women‚ though it refers briefly to the ambiguous class position of governesses such as Jane Eyre. The authors analyse the intertwined processes of female rebellion and repression in the narrative and highlight in particular the reading of Bertha Mason‚ the mad wife‚ as the symbol of Jane’s repressed passion. This was later to become an accepted
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nineteenth century‚ individuals‚ including Charlotte Bronte‚ were discriminated against because of their gender and role in society. Because she was woman who was succeeding in literature‚ she was judged. Bronte had to deal with the harsh society‚ just as Jane had to struggle with living with her rude family‚ the Reeds‚ and frustrating marriage with Rochester. Frank Magill confirms that‚ “One can imagine that the novel appealed to women then‚ and today‚ because it reflects the frustratingly limiting condition
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Child Abuse “Jane Eyre” Child abuse happens when a parent or other adult causes serious physical or emotional harm to a child. Child abuse is also a very delicate theme to talk about because of the many cases that have been reported in U.S and Puerto Rico. The causes of child abuse on infants‚ babies‚ and toddlers are catastrophic. There are several people who get abused from infancy to adulthood. Each person who gets abused and survives the trauma is left with horrible memories that will always
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industrial revolution was allowing people to undermine and overcome hitherto rigid class boundaries. Finally‚ Bronte depicts the ways in which women are challenging their traditional roles. Throughout the novels Wuthering Heights by Emily Bronte and Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte countless comparisons can be made. Both novels are stories of love and how this powerful emotion was able to overcome countless obstacles. These obstacles were lengthy struggles that characters within each novel were faced with
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subsequently treated. Especially in 19th and 20th century pieces of literature‚ characters portray symptoms of mental illnesses‚ but their conditions are often not directly acknowledged as mental illness and are in return poorly treated. Specifically Jane Eyre by Charlotte Brontë‚ Wide Sargasso Sea by Jean Rhys‚ and Mrs. Dalloway by Virginia Woolf depict how mental illnesses affect both men and women and how society generally stigmatizes them. In a patriarchal society‚ women are expected to be subordinate
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himself to be superior to others who may actually precede his status in society. His judgment is cast back on him at the end of the novel when everyone realizes his true nature‚ and any sliver of content he once held has now left. Mr. Brocklehurst in Jane Eyre is similar to the character of Bob
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