Scarica Jane Eyre analisi completa e più Schemi e mappe concettuali in PDF di Inglese solo su Docsity! JANE EYRE • SETTINGS: Northern England, 1800s in all remote locations: Lowood, Moor House and Thornfield • SOCIAL CONTEXT: During this period, British society was undergoing slow but significant change. Perhaps most apparent was the transition from a rural to an industrial economy. Charlotte Bronte touches on three areas of social concern in Jane Eyre: education, women's employment and marriage CHARACTERS • JANE EYRE is the protagonist of the novel, she is indipendent, rebel and want to be loved. She is developing during the story. She has very difficult during his growth, Jane is a "outsider", a free spirit that research them selves respect in the face of rejection of middle-class. She have a personal dignity (I care myself, I respect myself symbolizes VICTORIAN WOMAN) and her wish is Gender equality . Jane's personality contains many qualities; she's frank, sincere and lacks personal vanity. • EDWARD ROCHESTER is Jane's employer and master of Thotnfiel. He is wealthy, passionate man with a dark secret. Rochester is unconventional, ready to set aside polite manners, propriety, and consideration of social class in order to interact with Jane frankly and directly. Rochester is like a Byronic hero: he's dark , intense, impetuous. • BERTHA MASON is Mr.Rochester's first wife. She has mental problems • GRACE POOLE is a caretaker of Bertha Mason. She is an alcoholic • ST. JOHN RIVERS is classically beautiful, cold and dispassionate • HELEN BURNS is Jane's schoolmate at Lowood School who demonstrates tolerance and other Christian values opposite to Jane. She holds a doctrine that her faithfulness and patience would win a reward in the life hereafter. • MR. BROCKLEHURST demostrates his hypocritical Christian morals. He is known for torturing his students mentally and with cruelty at Lowood School. • MISS TEMPLE is a kindly lady at Lowood who takes the responsability of feeding the orphans. She supports the children through tchick or thin. • MRS. REED is Jane's aunt. Despite her promise to her husband, Mr.Reed, to raise Jane as her own, she ill-treats her. • JOHN REED is Jane's cousin. His behavior is obnoxious and eh is a typical bullying man EDUCATION Charlotte Bronte writes a social critique about the treatment of poor girls in boarding schools at time. The education was viewed as a pathway for the individual to aquire greater respectability in the eyes of society. This was because education was seen to impart the discretion and intellectual prowess necessary to interact with men and women of higher social status. THEMES Love and Passion There can be little doubt, however, that love and passion together form a major thematic element of the novel. On its most simple and obvious level, Jane Eyre is a love story. The love between the orphaned and initially impoverished Jane and the wealthy but tormented Rochester is at its heart. However, the novel explores other types of love as well. Helen Burns, for example, exemplifies the selfless love of a friend. Independence Jane Eyre is not only a love story: It is also a plea for the recognition of the individual's worth. Throughout the book, Jane demands to be treated as an independent human being, a person with her own needs and talents. Self-Control Jane learns to control her passions. She values self-control for three reasons. First, self-control is a path to moral behavior. Second, it is a way to demonstrate the supremacy of reason over passion. Third, self-control relates to social position and gender. Jane's dual status as an outcast from society and a woman makes her vulnerable. By controlling her passions, she protects herself from taking actions that will expose her to risk. In perhaps her most powerful expression of self-control, Jane foregoes her passionate love for Rochester to maintain her moral code and protect herself from the social disgrace that would fall on a mistress. Religion Throughout the novel, Jane struggles to find the right balance between moral duty and earthly pleasure, between obligation to her spirit and attention to her body. She encounters three main religious figures: Mr. Brocklehurst, Helen Burns, and St. John Rivers. Each represents a model of religion that Jane ultimately rejects Mr. Brocklehurst illustrates the dangers and hypocrisies that Charlotte Brontë perceived in the nineteenth-century Evangelical movement. Helen Burns’s meek and forbearing mode of Christianity, on the other hand, is too