Concetti Chiave
- The novel is distinguished by its prose, showcasing Charlotte Brontë's refined observational skills and nuanced character creation.
- Characters in the novel embody life's complexity and experience, with consistent behavior and guiding ideals.
- Jane, the protagonist, appears weak to others but harbors an irrepressible passion, highlighted since childhood.
- Brontë emphasizes Jane's unique perspective on the world and people, starting from her early years.
- Jane respects societal rules, valuing hierarchy and manners, while recognizing class differences.
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General aspects of a unique novel
What is notable of this novel, which was published in 1847, is first and foremost the prose, the gentle wisdom of language, Charlotte Brontë's refined ability to observe and create, with an incredible clear naturalness, every nuance of the world and the characters living there.
She was also brilliant to mix together different literary genres: the fictional autobiography, love story, Gothic novel and Bildungsroman.
As a matter of fact, Jane Eyre was criticized for the manifestation of violent, passionate and vibrant impulses, that were against the Victorian morality and habits, as well as for some accusation against contemporary church in England.
Jane’s analysis
About the characters, we, as readers, cannot simply describe them, because they enclose in themselves the complexity of life and experience, as well as the consistency of behaviour and the idealsthat guide them and the fears that follow them.
We should give a particular attention to the protagonist Jane, who seems to be a weak character through the eyes of other characters in the novel, but she finds that she has a passion that cannot be repressed.
Although it may be blindly interpreted as the only inherent element common to everyone in our youth, Charlotte Brontë seems to want to emphasize this Jane's particularity since childhood, describing the points of view of the world and the people around her.
Despite this subjective attitude, Jane does not transform her passion into insubordination towards the rules of society: she tends to pay attention to hierarchy, manners and, in spite of it, she also perceives a obvious difference with people belonging to a different social class or status.
Jane Eyre’s plot
Jane Eyre’s story is told, using the first personnarrator, from four phases of her live a posteriori.
The first part is about the main character’s childhood with her wicked aunt and cousins who will lead her to a sort of nervous breakdown that will mark her for the rest of her life.
In the second one is narrated her pained life as a student first and a teacher later in school for orphans subsidized by the nobles’ charity.
In the third section it is described her work as a governess and preceptor of a French little child at Thornfield where, after a lot of thoughts, doubts, disruptive self-persuasions and a fake fortune-teller, she felt in love with the grouchy owner, Mr. Rochester, who travelled a lot, was much older than Jane and was previously married with the crazy Bertha Manson who lived in an hidden attic.
The last part is about Jane’s escape after the called off wedding because of Mr. Rochester’s past life until she is hosted by St. John Rivers and his two sisters in their house. He, also, gave her a job as an elementary teacher in a rural school and he tried to propose to her and elope in India to fulfil his desire to become a missionary. She refused but she also found out that John and her sisters shared the same blood.
At the end Jane is reunited with Mr. Rochester, who became blind because of a fire set by Bertha which destroyed his mansion, and they lived happily together.
Domande da interrogazione
- ¿Qué hace notable a la novela "Jane Eyre"?
- ¿Cómo se describe a Jane, la protagonista, en la novela?
- ¿Cuáles son las fases de la vida de Jane narradas en la novela?
- ¿Qué eventos marcan la relación entre Jane y Mr. Rochester?
- ¿Cómo termina la historia de Jane Eyre?
La novela es notable por su prosa, la habilidad de Charlotte Brontë para mezclar diferentes géneros literarios y su crítica a la moralidad victoriana.
Jane es vista como un personaje débil por otros, pero posee una pasión irreprimible y respeta las normas sociales, aunque percibe diferencias de clase.
La novela narra su infancia con su tía malvada, su vida como estudiante y maestra, su trabajo como institutriz y su relación con Mr. Rochester, y finalmente su vida con St. John Rivers.
Jane se enamora de Mr. Rochester, pero su boda se cancela al descubrirse su matrimonio previo con Bertha Manson. Finalmente, se reúnen después de que Rochester queda ciego por un incendio.
Jane se reúne con Mr. Rochester, quien ha quedado ciego, y viven felices juntos después de superar los obstáculos de su pasado.
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