Jene Eyre in English

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"This excellent guide does justice both to the intricate design of Brontë's novel and to its sheer strangeness."

  1. 08/23/2025

    What does the ending of Jane Eyre mean?

    What does the ending of Jane Eyre mean? For many readers, “the blackened ruin” which Jane finds when she returns to Thornfield, and the blinded, scorched and charred Rochester she seeks out at Ferndean, represent the vanquishing of the novel’s sexual energies. “Mr Rochester’s sex passion is not ‘respectable’,” said D.H. Lawrence, “till Mr Rochester is burned, blinded, disfigured and reduced to helpless dependence.

    15 min

  2. 08/23/2025

    Why does Jane return to Rochester?

    Why does Jane return to Rochester? The portion of the novel which recounts Jane’s time as a parish schoolteacher at Morton, and her connection with the Rivers family, is often neglected, especially in film or television adaptations, as being irrelevant or at best secondary to the central love story. But this episode does not simply fill in gaps in the plot or delay Jane’s climactic return to Rochester.

    16 min

  3. 08/23/2025

    Why does Jane leave Rochester?

    Why does Jane leave Rochester? “All self-sacrifice is good,” wrote George Eliot, on reading Jane Eyre, “but one could like it to be in a somewhat nobler cause than that of a diabolical law which chains a man body and soul to a putrefying carcase.

    15 min

  4. 08/23/2025

    Where is sex in Jane Eyre?

    Where is sex in Jane Eyre? What is love? To the first question the answer often seems simply: “sex is in Bertha” – albeit imperfectly contained – or “in Rochester”, the two obviously sexual creatures of the book. If Bertha seems to offer a cautionary illustration of the dangers of excessive sexual appetite, Rochester’s example is much more equivocal.

    17 min

  5. 08/23/2025

    Why is Bertha so important?

    Why is Bertha so important? In the deep shade… a figure ran backwards and forwards… Whether beast or human being… it snatched and growled… gazed wildly at her visitors… [At] Mr Rochester… the lunatic sprang and grappled his throat viciously, and laid her teeth to his cheek: they struggled.

    14 min

  6. 08/21/2025

    What is the significance of Jane’s role as governess?

    What is the significance of Jane’s role as governess? The crimson curtain hung before the arch: slight as the separation this drapery formed from the party in the adjoining salon, they spoke in so low a key that nothing of their conversation could be distinguished… “Why, I suppose you have a governess for [Adèle]: I saw a person with her just now – is she gone? Oh, no! there she still is behind the window- curtain. You pay her of course.”

    17 min

  7. 08/21/2025

    What makes Rochester such a distinctive hero?

    What makes Rochester such a distinctive hero? When Rochester arrives at Thornfield on a “tall steed” whose “rude noise” breaks the evening calm, accompanied by a “great dog” – “a lion-like creature with long hair and a huge head” (12) – he thunders into Jane’s life as if destined to fulfil his role as powerful masculine incumbent of secluded, brooding Thornfield, with its “chill and vault-like air”, “dark and spacious staircase”, “long cold gallery” and “wide hall” hung with likenesses of “grim” personages and an oak-carved ebony clock. The “narrow, low, dim passage” of the third storey strikes Jane as resembling “a corridor in some Bluebeard’s castle”; and here, while Jane’s imagination prepares itself for a creature from fairy tale – “As this horse approached… I remembered certain of Bessie’s tales wherein figured a North-of- England spirit” – the villain-hero himself seems about to appear through the dusk.

    12 min

  8. 08/21/2025

    What does Jane learn at Lowood?

    What does Jane learn at Lowood? “Is she going by herself ? ... What a long way!”… The coach drew up… I was taken from Bessie’s neck, to which I clung with kisses.

    10 min
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