jane eyre
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Jane eyre. Suggestions for research. The Supernatural. The Red Room Jane - a witch, a faerie? Has visions/dreams The fortune teller Can hear each others thoughts Tree splits in half Bertha is a vampire Helen Burns is an angel. Wards in victorian England. - PowerPoint PPT PresentationTRANSCRIPT
JANE EYRE
Suggestions
for research
THE SUPERNATURALThe Red Room
Jane - a witch, a faerie? Has visions/dreams
The fortune teller
Can hear each others thoughts
Tree splits in half
Bertha is a vampire
Helen Burns is an angel
WARDS IN VICTORIAN ENGLAND
A common practice, but how did the whole ward thing work?
Jane was Mrs. Reed’s ward
Adele was Rochester’s ward (or daughter – whatever)
ORPHANAGES
Lowood School
Children’s rights
Compare Dickens w/Bronte re: treatment of children in their novels
TREATMENT OF THE MENTALLY ILL
Bertha
Grace Poole (caretakers)
Why didn’t Rochester put Bertha in an asylum?
Were Jane & Rochester a little nuts?
TEACHERS/GOVERNESSES
Differences between teachers & governesses
Who became teachers/governesses and why?
Reputation? (Blanche’s mom)
Rights / Working conditions
Compare/contrast a governess in Victorian England and a nanny today
PHYSICAL ABUSE
Mrs. Reed & her rotten son
Lowood school
Even Rochester!
Predominantly children & women victims
MARRIAGE/SOCIAL/CLASS CONVENTIONS
Blanche rich/high class and MUCH younger
Jane poor/low class and MUCH younger
Divorce
Jane won’t run away w/Rochester
Jane’s beautiful speech about being small and insignificant
MARRIAGE/SOCIAL/CLASS CONVENTIONS (CONT’D)
St. John’s sisters (cousin goes into a convent?)
Jane won’t marry St. John
St. John won’t marry Rosamond
Women’s rights (or lack thereof)
Women’s ability to inherit (becomes Jane Heir!)
CHRISTIANITY & COLONIZATION
Sun never sets on the British Empire
St. John going on a mission to India
Helen Burns – tries to teach Jane about Christ & humility
Jane’s refusal to be Rochester’s mistress (denounces moral relativism)
CHARLOTTE BRONTE
Compare her life with Jane Eyre