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Charlotte Brontë’s J ane E yre

Charlotte Brontë’s J ane E yre. Many Books in One. Autobiography Fairy Tale Plot Marriage Plot Bildungsroman or Quest Plot Gothic Plot. Jane Eyre as Autobiography. 1816-1854 Parents: Rev. Patrick Brontë + Maria

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Charlotte Brontë’s J ane E yre

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  1. Charlotte Brontë’sJane Eyre

  2. Many Books in One • Autobiography • Fairy Tale Plot • Marriage Plot • Bildungsroman or Quest Plot • Gothic Plot

  3. Jane Eyre asAutobiography • 1816-1854 • Parents: Rev. Patrick Brontë + Maria • Maria (1814), Elizabeth (1815), Charlotte (1816), Branwell (1817), Emily (1818), Anne (1820) Haworth today

  4. Jane Eyre as Autobiography Currer, Ellis, and Acton Bell:Charlotte Brontë Emily Brontë Anne BrontëJane Erye Wuthering Heights Anne Gray 1847

  5. Jane Eyre as Autobiography Branwell Brontë Branwell’s painting of Emily, Charlotte, and Anne Branwell’s painting of Emily

  6. Jane Eyre as Autobiography Angria • Box of soldiers given to Branwell (1826 ) • Imaginary African world with extensive stories: Glass Town  Angria • Obsession . . . “Farewell to Angria” Map of Angria, drawn by Branwell

  7. Jane Eyre as Autobiography Reading at the Window Seat:Bewick's History of British Birds (1804) [illustrations from Bewick’s books mentioned in Jane Eyre]

  8. Jane Eyre as Autobiography Education [pupils sitting at long table at boarding school] • Clergy Daughter’s School, Cowan Bridge • Roe Head School  Lowood School in Jane Eyre

  9. Jane Eyre and theFairy-Tale Plot Cinderella--Poor girl with heart of gold oppressed by wicked stepmother and stepsisters gets her chance to meet a Prince and prove her superiority, but not without serious obstacles along the way. [pictures from movie showing Mrs. Reed and 3 Reed children]

  10. Jane Eyre and theFairy-Tale Plot Beauty and the Beast?

  11. Bluebeard “I lingered in the long passage to which this [staircase from attic] led, separating the front and back rooms of the third story: narrow, low, and dim, with only one little window at the far end, and looking, with its two rows of small black doors all shut, like a corridor in some Bluebeard’s castle” (91Norton) Scene from Bela Bartok’s opera: Bluebeard’s Castle

  12. Jane as Otherworldly Sprite • Mrs. Reed (22) • Rochester (104, passim) Titania’s Awakening by Charles Sims

  13. “Poor Orphan Child” [pictures of Harry Potter, Little Match Girl, Snow White, and Xeno]

  14. Jane Eyre and the Romance/Marriage Plot “Once upon a time, the end, the rightful end, of women in novel was social—successful courtship, marriage—or judgmental of her sexual and social failure—death.” Rachel DuPlessis

  15. Jane Eyre and theBildung Plot • a.k.a. Quest Plot • Bildungsroman: growing up story; a novel dealing with the growth and education of the protagonist • Typically a male hero, on a journey toward self-realization/independence • Often orphaned or presented with other challenges • e.g., Dickens’ Great Expectations, David Copperfield

  16. Marriage Plot vs. Bildung Plot Contradictory contemporary views: 19th c. women’s fiction typically ends in the female protagonist’s setting aside the bildung plot by either getting married or dying. (Rachel DuPlessis) 19th c. women’s fiction often shows that through marriage, women and men develop individually by merging of female and male spheres and gender roles. (Chris R. Vanden Bossche) Pride & Prejudice, Emma, Little Women, Wuthering Heights, Return of the Native, Middlemarch, Mill on the Floss, etc. (2 heroines already married, die anyway: Anna Karenina, Madame Bovary)

  17. Jane Eyre and theGothic Plot • “Dark Romanticism” • Involvement of the supernatural • Haunted castle or house • Dreaming and nightmares • Doppelgänger or alter ego • Physical imprisonment • Psychological entrapment and helplessness • Psychology of horror and/or terror Henry Fuseli’s The Nightmare, 1781

  18. Jane Eyre and the Gothic Plot Mystery

  19. Jane Eyre and the Gothic Plot The Byronic Hero A.K.A. Villain-Hero: Aristocratic, charming, moody, solitary, secretive, intelligent, cynical, and emotionally wounded. Irresistable to women--relationships destructive. Lord Byron by Richard Westall, 1813 Byron in Albanian attire by Thomas Phillips

  20. Jane Eyre and the Gothic Plot The Distressed Heroine “Female Gothic” Female protagonist is pursued and persecuted by a villainous patriarchal figure in unfamiliar settings and terrifying landscape. The Mysteries of Udolpho by Ann Radcliffe Lady Macbeth by Henry Fuseli 1784

  21. Jane Eyre and the Gothic Plot Architecture of the Mind Gothic heroines explore their unknown inner selves as they wander through the mysterious house North Lees Hall, c. 1590

  22. The Tragedy of the Brontës • Branwell--addiction to alcohol and opium • 1848: Family caught cold/flu leading to 3 deaths • Branwell and Emily in 1848; Anne in 1849. • 1854: Charlotte married Rev. A.B. Nicholls and died same year (pregnant)

  23. Acknowledgements • Bossche, Chris R. Vanden. “Moving Out: Adolescence.” In A Companion toVictorian Literature and Culture. Ed. Herbert Tucker. Malden, Mass: Blackwell, 1999. (82-96) • DuPlessis, Rachel Blau. Writing Beyond the Ending:Narrative Strategies of Twentieth-Century WomenWriters. Blomington: Indiana UP, 1985. • Gaskell, Elizabeth. Life of Charlotte Bronte, London: Smith, Elder, 1857. • Glossary of Gothic Terms at Georgia Southern University’s Department of English and Philosophy: http://www.georgiasouthern.edu/~dougt/goth.html • Hall, Renee. "The DNA of Fairy Tales: Their Origin and Meaning" http://www.theosophy-nw.org/theosnw/world/general/ge-rhall.htm Images: • Angria map and woodcut showing school: http://www.beepworld.de/members8/desireebouvier/emilybronte.htm • Bewick’s birds: http://www.sharecom.ca/bewick/vignettes/vignettes.html • Albanian Byron by Thomas Phillips, 1835: http://englishhistory.net/byron/life.html • Charlotte Brontë, from the portrait by George Richmond. BBC Hulton Picture Library. Chalk: http://www.wwnorton.com/nael/victorian/topic_2/illustrations/imbronte.htm • Emily Bronte by Branwell Bronte: http://chnm.gmu.edu/ematters/issue8/lathbury/lathbury_body.htm • Henry Fuseli paintings: www.artchive.com

  24. Acknowledgements, cont. • Jane Eyre, 1996 film stills: http://www.angelfire.com/nc/janeeyre/moviepics.html and http://www.math.utah.edu/~gold/gainsbourg.html • Lord Byron at age 25 (1813 portrait by Richard Westall): http://www.csulb.edu/~csnider/brontes.html • North Lees Hall, photo: http://www.lovetripper.com/issues/issue-35/jane-eyre.html • Portrait by Branwell Brontë of his sisters, Anne, Emily, and Charlotte (c. 1834): http://www.csulb.edu/~csnider/brontes.html • Titania’s Awakening by Charles Sims (1873-1928) http://www.modjourn.brown.edu/mjp/Image/Sims/Sims.htm

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