will explore how minor characters with in the novels ‘Jane Eyre’ and ‘Wide Sargasso Sea’ impact upon the lives of our central characters; as well as the interest they bring through their individual complexities‚ and how this in turn creates much of the interest with in these novels. Within the troubled childhoods of our protagonists particular importance is often placed upon the parental figures with in there early lives. Within ‘Jane Eyre’ Mrs Reed and Mr Brocklehurst are the most notable examples
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* Jane Eyre: The protagonist of the novel and the title character. Orphaned as a baby‚ she struggles through her nearly loveless childhood and becomes governess at Thornfield Hall. Jane is passionate and opinionated‚ and values freedom and independence. She also has a strong conscience and is a determined Christian. * John Reed: Jane’s cousin‚ who as a child bullies Jane constantly‚ sometimes in his mother’s presence. He ruins himself as an adult by drinking and gambling and is thought to have
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deemed oppressive in ones life. It is created for different causes and comes in many forms; it may be made verbal‚ explicit‚ implicit‚ physical‚ and even made humorous or satirical. Charlotte Brontë‚ a 19th century Victorian feminist wrote her novel Jane Eyre as a means of exposing the confining environments‚ shameful lack of education‚ and pitiful dependence upon male relatives for survival (Brackett‚ 2000). Charlotte Brontë used literature as a means of feminist cultural resistance by identifying
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What impression do we gain of Jane Eyre in the opening chapters? In the first few opening chapters Jane Eyre is seen as a mentally and physically abused child‚ during her years at Gateshead Hall. John Reed displays violence towards Jane in the first chapter. He punishes and bullies Jane; it is not known why the Reed family resent her so much. Her situation is seen as desperate within the first few paragraphs. Her cousins and Aunt make her life impossible and unbearable‚ she is not seen as a member
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So ..After twenty-year separation I finally found my sister Jane. We talked a lot about our childhood‚ the forest home‚ and generally our lives after that. Here is a small part from our dialog. Me: How did you know that they’re gonna take me away? Jane: Well‚ it was that night that I decided to bring you a candy bar I had stolen after the Christmas morning. When I came closer to your bunkbed ‚ I heard them talking near the dormitory door. They were discussing the day that they were planning
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Charlotte Bronte uses many similarities in Jane Eyre that could be argued resemble her own experiences. She too like that of Jane was the daughter of a clergyman and was sent to a school called Norwood‚ which bares many similarities with that of Lowood. She also became a governess and this suggests that her own experience of a middle class working woman fighting to find a place in Victorian society was used to express her own views of life in that of Jane Eyre. In Great Expectations‚ Pip is typical
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The novel Jane Eyre is predominantly a bildungsroman‚ Jane’s development throughout the novel is one of the most important aspects of the narrative. During Jane’s time at Thornfield she makes huge emotional progress through her relationship with Rochester and the discovery of Bertha Mason‚ eventually resulting in her departure from Thornfield. In chapter 11 when Jane first arrives at Thornfield She is unsure of her surroundings and the description of the thorn trees alludes to fairytales such
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exploring how the theme of isolation is used throughout the novel "Jane Eyre" written by Charlotte Bronte‚ with particular focus on the opening chapters. When Charlotte Bronte wrote "Jane Eyre" in 1847‚ it became an immediate bestseller. It contained themes of which were previously rarely brought to light and of which many believed to be controversial‚ such as women’s place in the Victorian society‚ of which Bronte lived in. "Jane Eyre" was written in first person narrative. This technique immediately
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How does Bronte develop the character of Jane in chapters 1 and 2? At the beginning of the novel‚ Bronte does not specifically develop Jane’s character‚ but rather uses her as a method of setting the scene for the first few chapters‚ through her descriptions of the house and people in it. After the first few pages‚ however‚ she is assaulted by John whilst reading a book and it is at this point that we see her give her first full opinionative description of someone. This description of
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In this study of Charlotte Bronte ’s Jane Eyre and Jean Rhys ’s Wide Sargasso Sea I aim to consider the representation of the doubleness of selfhood‚ and how both between and within the two novels a continuous mirroring of double identity‚ (reflecting like a hall of mirrors)‚ can be traced. I will concentrate chiefly on the duality of the female personae‚ although I will also consider briefly the concept of doubling across gender boundaries. Miller maintains that ’doubles may appear to come from
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