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Jane Eyre

Jane Eyre. Charlotte Bronte. Facts and background. Written in 1854 Charlotte Bronte – daughter of a clergyman, imaginative, educated, some parallels with Jane’s life. First published in the name Currer Bell, as women did not often write in those days. S tructure. First person narrative.

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Jane Eyre

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  1. Jane Eyre Charlotte Bronte

  2. Facts and background • Written in 1854 • Charlotte Bronte – daughter of a clergyman, imaginative, educated, some parallels with Jane’s life. • First published in the name Currer Bell, as women did not often write in those days.

  3. Structure • First person narrative. Five sections: • Gateshead • Lowood • Thornfield Hall • With the Rivers family • Back at (a changed) Thornfield

  4. Themes • Love and relationships • Money • Class • Childhood • The role of women • Religion • Family • Supernatural?

  5. A Byronic Hero • The poet Lord Byron was described as being “mad, bad and dangerous to know” by an ex-lover. • Some characteristics of Lord Byron have since been attributed to characters in novels – and in real life! • Rochester is often described as a ‘Byronic hero’.

  6. Facets of a Byronic Hero Mysterious, magnetic and charismatic Seductive and sexually attractive Self-critical and introspective Self-destructive Socially and sexually dominant Sophisticated and educated Struggling with integrity Treated as an exile, outcastor outlaw • Arrogant • Cunning and able to adapt • Cynical • Disrespectful of rank and privilege • Emotionally conflicted, bipolar or moody • Having a distaste for social institutions and norms • Having a troubled past or suffering from an unnamed crime • Intelligent and perceptive • Jaded, world-weary

  7. Edward Fairfax Rochester Jane says: “ I had not intended to love him…He made me love him without looking at me.“ Chapter 17

  8. Is Rochester a Byronic hero? Secrets, moods, darkness, passion, intelligence, pride, arrogance… “I love you as my own flesh…” “I have spent the last fifteen years in TORMENT! ” “Then judge me, priest on the gospel and man of the law, and remember with what judgment ye judge, ye... Off with you now” (Jaaaaaaaaane)

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