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Women In Literature.
Context
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'At any time, she is still is wife, dearly devoted to his arms.'
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A lot of war occurred behind the scenes of Austen's work, as well as unrest in the monarchy due to the Regent King, George.
Romantiscism was heavily used in Austen's work, though often criticised by Austen. Romanticism was the movement of richer individuals seeing the country life and nature as 'Romantic', as well as the appreciation of emotion and the notion that all are individuals.
Bronte believed she created the first 'ugly' couple in literature and is often credited with this first.
Bronte was deeply into phrenology and used it in her work to express things we were unaware of at first glance, such as Rochester's broad chest and forehead.
Austen would be experiencing the new industrial revolution, meaning that villages and travel were more open and available now in comparison to before - people started knowing one another as intimately in this time due to the extension of travel.
Despite the trains being introduced in England in 1804, they never feature in either novel, opting to make communities seem more close knit.
Two of Austen's brothers were naval officers, and she lived through the French, American and industrial revolutions as well as the Napoleonic Was, yet the military is only mentioned in a few of her books in relation to suitability for marriage; Lydia in Pride and Prejudice.
Two options in the period as women were reviewed as second class citizens. Governess or get married. For the girls in Austen, they avoid governessing all together and have limited education whereas Bronte allowed Jane a more human experience through governessing and education.
'Fallen women' was a trope used to describe a woman which had 'lost her innocence' and fallen from the 'Grace of God'. This was popular throughout the 1850s-65.
Women's rights were beginning to become relevant, with the first organised movement for British women's suffrage being in the 1850s.
There was a shift between the early 1800s in which prostitution was considered a 'necessity' for men of all social status, but during the 'evangelical' movement they were called sinners. In the 1860s women who were found to be prostitutes were locked up in the system for endangering working men, military men and sailors from contracting diseases.
Critics
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'Bertha is her truest and darkest double, her criminal self.' - Gilbert and Gubar.
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'Jane is an unreliable, shadowy narrator.' - Sternlieb.
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'The harsh economic reality of a young woman's value in the marriage market is what preoccupies most of the characters' - Mullan
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'Like Bertha, she is insane when sexually aroused.' - Maynard
Jane Eyre (1847)
Parenthood
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'Wherever you are is my home, my only home.' - to Rochester.
'I will be your neighbour, your nurse, your housekeeper.' to Rochester.
'I will never call you aunt again, people think you a good woman, but you are bad.'
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Money/Finance
'You have no money, your father left you none.' John Reed to Jane.
'The upmost I hope is, to save money enough out of my earnings to set up a school some day.'
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Men in Power
'He is not of their kind, he is of mine, I must love him!' - Jane.
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'Mr Rochester, I must leave you.'
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CHARACTERS
JANE EYRE
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Edward Rochester - The Lord of Thornfield who slowly falls in love with Jane despite a mottled past filled with sexual exploits in France, in which Adele was the product of. Married to Bertha Mason, Rochester tries to marry Jane only to have his secret be revealed. Bertha sets him on fire, leaving him blind and disabled.
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Helen Burns - Jane Eyre's religious friend at Lowood who is constantly victimised by her teachers and regularly takes the punishment without voicing an opinion. Helen tragically dies of tuberculosis at a young age in Jane's arms.
Diana and Mary Rivers - Jane's cousins who take Jane in under their wing and Diana teaches German to Jane - puts a firm insistence on Jane's place in tiger household which begins to push St.John and Jane together
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Grace Poole - The caretaker for Bertha Mason whose drunken nature allows Bertha to escape so frequently. All of Bertha's misdeeds are attributed to Poole by Mrs Fairfaxx when Jane first arrives at Thornfield.
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