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Jane Eyre

Jane Eyre. Introd. and Chaps I-X: Girl’s Education – duty and self-denial or a pursuit of liberty and knowledge. Outline. Review: 1) Social Background; 2) Brontë Sisters Introduction: Jane Eyre and CB’s Life Chaps 1-4: Jane’s Social Position vs. Her Cousins’

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Jane Eyre

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  1. Jane Eyre Introd. and Chaps I-X: Girl’s Education – duty and self-denial or a pursuit of liberty and knowledge

  2. Outline • Review: 1) Social Background; 2) Brontë Sisters • Introduction: Jane Eyre and CB’s Life • Chaps 1-4: Jane’s Social Position vs. Her Cousins’ • Chaps 5-10: Jane’s Education vs. Helen Burns’ and • The Roles of Nature

  3. Victorian Society: Women’s Positions • Contradictions between social prosperity and social problems • Women – angel in the house vs. fallen women Causes: -- strict division of jobs  women seen as men’s property -- women not educated  women physically and mentally unfit for serious intellectual pursuits.

  4. Victorian Society (2) Women’s Education • At home, taught by mothers or governesses • boarding schools • Jane charity schools • (X: 80) A lady’s education (3) Marriage and Inheritance

  5. Traces of Jane Eyre in Charlotte Bronte’s Life "Overview: Jane Eyre." Literature and Its Times: Profiles of 300 Notable Literary Works and the Historical Events that Influenced Them. Joyce Moss and George Wilson. Vol. 2: Civil Wars to Frontier Societies (1800-1880s). Detroit: Gale, 1997. Literature Resource Center. Web. 5 Oct. 2012.

  6. 2) The Brontë Sisters • The Bronte Sisters (feature film)– Literary Aspiration in their lonely and drab lives. • 4:32—the painting, and Emily and Ann out in nature (rose vs. holy bush) • 14:00—letter from Southey • 1:10 – Emily’s poems  1:16 publication of their novels • 1:38 –illness and death of Emily • 1:50 – Charlotte at the concert hall • Documentary: In search of the Brontes Part 1 - 1/6 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QQGgl-HtrmM • The Death Of Emily Bronte http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dehmUqIxgjU&feature=related

  7. Wuthering Heights and Jane Eyre Similarities • Bleak and gloomy natural environment • Heathcliff and Rochester as Byronic Heroes + Villains • Catherine’s (of two generations) and Jane Eyre experience domestication Differences • Wuthering Heights – “wildness” presented as ghosts and in landscape • Jane Eyre – Bertha dead, and the protagonists tamed.

  8. Jane Eyre • 1-4 -- Gateshead Hall • 5-10– Lowood Institution • 11-19 -- Thornfield Hall • 20-27-- (21—back to Mrs. Reed) • 28-39 – Leaving Thornfield  Moor House at Marsh End  (back to Thornfield  37 Ferndean Manor)

  9. Locations Haddon Hall (2011) ‘The Rydings' – Ellen Nussey's early home; The manor house that inspired Brontë’s creation of Thornfield Hall. From Jane Eyre, vol. 1 (1905).

  10. Filmic Adaptations • 1944, 1983, 1996, 1997 and 2006– Rochester’s performances ranked here • 5th --1996: Film directed by Franco Zeffirelli and starring William Hurt as Mr Rochester, Charlotte Gainsbourg as Jane, • 4th -- 1997: TV adaptation directed by Robert Young and starring Laura Harling as Jane and Ciarán Hinds as Mr Rochester • 3th -- 1944: Black and white film directed by Robert Stevenson, with a screenplay by John Houseman and Aldous Huxley. It features Orson Welles as Mr Rochester, Joan Fontaine as Jane • 4th -- 1983: Television miniseries directed by Julian Amyes starring Zelah Clarke as Jane and Timothy Dalton as Mr Rochester • 5th -- 2006: BBC miseries directed by Susanna White starring Ruth Wilson as Jane and Toby Stephens as Mr Rochester (source) 2011: Film directed by Cary Fukunaga starring Mia Wasikowska as Jane Eyre and Michael Fassbender as Rochester

  11. Using the films to • Help visualize the story and • Understand the importance of the novel’s narration. • 2011 – John Reed vs. Jane • 1983 – 1-3 Jane’s changes in responses

  12. Chaps 1-4: Discussion Questions • How is Jane positioned socially? How is she opposed to her cousins and treated by her aunts and the servants? • How does Jane respond to her loneliness and mistreatment? Do you find her “passionate,” “realistic” or “childish”? • What are the significances of the red room? • What roles do Nature and books play in this part of the novel?

  13. Jane in The Reed Family • Mrs. Reed (I: 5) – “contented, happy, little children” • John (I: 7-9) • The servants (II: 9-10; 14) – be useful and pleasant • Georgiana & Eliza (II: 12; VI 24) [later] X: 79 Jane’s responses: 1. “shrined in double retirement” (I: 5) 2. Reed vs. Jane (I: 7-9) habitually obedient to John, “in frantic sort” -- revolted slave (II) 3. Asserts herself (III: 19) I cry because I am miserable. 4. Against Mrs. Reed (IV: 28-)

  14. red room (II: 10-11;13-14) and the pattern of Jane’s Pursuit

  15. Nature & Books • Nature • I: 5-7 (love and adventures) • V: garden • Books • History of British Birds • Gulliver’s Travels (III: 17) • Rasselas (V: 42-43)

  16. Chaps 5-10: Discussion Questions • What kind of school is Lowood? Does it in any way resemble any school you know of or have been to? • How are the teachers (Ms. Temple, Miss Scatcherd and Mr. Brocklehurst) in Lowood presented? • How and why are Helen and Jane punished respectively? How do they respond to being punished? • What are the turning points in Jane’s pursuit of liberty and a better life?

  17. School Chapter V: • Class 38; • Food 39 • Discipline 40 • Lessons 41

  18. Teachers Indoctrination and Punishment Wise Judgment and Sympathy Miss Temple – Chap V: 41 & VIII: 61 • Miss Scatcherd –Chap VI • Mr. Brocklehurst (VII 54 -55; 56)

  19. Helen Burns vs. Jane Helen • Punished V 44; VI 46, • VI: Your duty to bear (48-49) • Love your enemy (50); you’d be happier if you forget her severity • (VIII: 60): conscience and the invisible world • (IX: 70-) Jane V: 44 “How can she bear it so quietly…” VII: 50 Good to those who are good to you. VIII: 64

  20. Nature • (II: 14)Was it, I asked myself, a ray from the moon penetrating some aperture in the blind? No; moonlight was still, and this stirred: while I gazed, it glided up to the ceiling and quivered over my head.” • Garden (V: 41); VI: 47: the wind outside the window a strange excitement • (IX: 67) ramble in the wood • (X: 74): Jane looks out the window again.

  21. Turning Points and Helpers • Mr. Lloyd  Lowood Institute • Ms. Temple, clears her name, motivates her to make further progress. • Helen and Ms. Temple’s reading of classical literature

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