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Jane Eyre

Jane Eyre. XX-XXVII: Jane between Love/Madness and Law/Principles. Outline. Review: Chap XI-IXX Overview: Chap XXI-XXVII Female Subjects in the novel Jane’s Choices: multiple narrative positions Her Paintings Her Dreams Rochester’s narrative of love Her Rationalization.

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Jane Eyre

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  1. Jane Eyre XX-XXVII: Jane between Love/Madness and Law/Principles

  2. Outline • Review: Chap XI-IXX • Overview: Chap XXI-XXVII • Female Subjects in the novel • Jane’s Choices: multiple narrative positions • Her Paintings • Her Dreams • Rochester’s narrative of love • Her Rationalization

  3. Review: Chap XI-IXX –The Quest vs. The Realistic and the Gothic Jane’s Role as a Governess vs. Her Desire

  4. Chap XX-XXVII

  5. Chap XX-XXVII

  6. Two Filmic Episodes • 7 (1-3) • 8 (2-3)

  7. Discussion Questions • Group 2 Mrs. Fairfax vs. Bertha group 7 Eliza vs. Geogiana– Types of Female characters the novel present (Possible subject positions for Jane) • Group 3 part 1, group 8 part 2-- Relations between Jane and Rochester • group 4 -- Through the two main episodes here (Mrs. Reeds’ death and the wedding), how does Jane express and develop her sense of identity? • group 5- What do you think about Rochester as a lover? And his solution to his attempt at polygamy? • Groups 6 & 1 -- What would you have done were you Jane?

  8. Female Subjects in the novel

  9. Eliza vs. Georgina (XXI) p. 200 the two compared; Jane beyond feeling mortified. Eliza Georgina 205 –on herself, her loves and woes • 206 – no companion • No conversation • Accusation of Georgiana 207 Jane’s views of the two (208)

  10. Mrs. Fairfax vs. Bertha Mrs. Fairfax Bertha a ‘low, slow ha, ha’ after Jane’s reverie on being discontented. Mirror image The scene // red room scene • XXIII: the “widow” seeing Rochester kiss Jane; • XXIV: “Equality of position and fortune is often advisable” -- “twenty years of difference in your ages”; “pet of his” “governess” (232-33).

  11. Jane’s Development (1) Outgrowing Her Hatred • Meeting Aunt (XXI) • pp. 202; • 209-211

  12. Jane’s Self-Expression via Paintings –or Self-Denial? three instances of painting • XIII (110-111): 3 paintings (of clouds, peak of a hill and of a polar winter sky) Rochester’s exploration of the recesses of her mind  “artist’s dreamland” • XVI (141-): Jane vs. Ingram-- a conscious effort to fix the subject in a position of rationality and clarity • Jane’s spontaneous portrait of Rochester—artist’s self-expression or self-lessness?

  13. Jane’s Development (2) Jane as a Server  Independence • Chap XX: • “I’d give my life to serve you” • “I like to serve you, sir, and to obey you in all that is right.‘ • Chap XXII –R needs Jane’s confirmation (A loving eye is all the charm needed) • Chap XXIII • “I am no bird; and no net ensnares me: I am a free human being with an independent will; which I now exert to leave you.” (223) • I summon you as my wife. (223)

  14. Rochester XXIV (227-28) delicate and aerial” Jane “Puny and insignificant…You are dreaming, sir—or you are sneering…” “I’m not an angel…I will be myself” (XXIV 228) hates being dressed like a doll 236; writes to John Eyre Jane: poverty = degradation (III 20);being given too much jewelry = degradation (XXIV 236) For wages (30 pounds a year) show him divers rugged points…”my whole world”; “my hope of heaven” 241 Jane’s “Independence” from Rochester’s Narrative of Love • Rochester -- like a stray lamb 245 looking for her shepherd

  15. Rochester as a Romantic Hero or Villain • Omen--a bolt of lightning splits the chestnut tree of the proposal scene (XXV 243) • Domineering: XX – forbids the two to talk • Self-Centeredness; coldness to Mason • Deceitfulness: his proposal • Clues to the past: • Error, not a crime 191  Jane refuses to offer comfort in reformation (XX 192) • proposal –”God pardon me…”(XXIII: 224)

  16. Jane’s Dreams and Bertha (XXV-XXVI) • her dream 247—the charge of a little child; • another dream 248-49 • Facing the mad woman 249-50 • XXVI– Jane’s future destroyed • XXVII -- Rochester’s account 269

  17. Rochester’s Solution & Confession • Separating Bertha from her: “You shall go to a place I have in the south of France: a white-washed villa on the shores of the Mediterranean.” • Reasoning through confession • Emotional appeal

  18. Jane’s Self-Respect and Principles • (XXVII 279) • 'I care for myself. The more solitary, the more friendless, the more unsustained I am, the more I will respect myself. • I will keep the law given by God; sanctioned by man.

  19. Next Week • Is Jane successful in her quest? • Roles: • Jane –--3 • Rochester – 5 • Bertha --4 • St. John Rivers -- 8 • Mrs. Fairfax -- 6 • Georgiana --7 • Helen Burns --1 • You --2

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