Scarica Analisi Jane Eyre, Charlotte Bronte e più Appunti in PDF di Inglese solo su Docsity! Jane Eyre Jane Eyre is a novel by Charlotte Bronte published in 1847. It follows the story of Jane Eyre, an orphan raised by her abusive aunt, Mrs Reed. After attending Lowood school, she becomes a teacher in that same school, but accepts later on to be a governess at Thornfield Hall, where she will fall in love with Mr Rochester, the owner, who will then propose to her. Their wedding, however, is interrupted by a stranger who informs Jane about Rochester's wife, Bertha Mason, a madwoman who’s been living in the attic. Janes leaves and goes to live with their cousins at Moor House, where she meets St John Rivers, a religious man who will propose to her; she refuses and returns to Thornfield after hearing Rochester’s voice calling for her at night. The house has been burned down and Bertha died, while Rochester lost his sight and a hand while trying to save his wife, but will recover it after marrying Jane and having a child with her. Jane’s development, as we can clearly see, is represented by the five locations presented in the novel : Gateshead, where Jane grows up and where she faces the unhappiest moments of her life; Lowood school, the place of Janes education; Thornfield, where she experiences young love; Moor House, place of temporary banishment; and finally Ferndean, where Jane start a new life with a now mature love. Jane’s life is one of the most complex female characters of her century, complexity which is achieved thanks to the pen of an also female author, Charlotte Bronte. It is fair to assume that this wouldn’t have been possible without the insight of a real woman and that a man could have never given Jane the same authenticity. Jane is educated, rebellious, independent and passionate, but most of all she faces many struggles and conflicts, the very conflicts that in literature had been reserved only to male characters: in this story Jane is shown to have internal turmoils because “women feel just as men feel”, women are thought to be calm but they also suffer from “too rigid a restraint” they need, just as men do, to go beyond tranquility in order to be satisfied. Jane, however, is not an exception among many women, instead, she represents them: if we compare Charlotte’s approach to other female writers of the time, we can see that Jane is not a presented as a woman who is different from all the others and that defies womanly desires, but she simply exposes them, she does not speak for herself only but for her sisters too, therefore giving a strong voice to women while also denouncing the narrow-mindness men share when thinking of them.
