Jane Eyre ~ context
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- Created on: 05-03-20 12:30
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- Jane Eyre ~ context
- The Gothic genre
- Gloomy, decaying setting
- Supernatural beings or monsters
- Curses or prophecies.
- Intense emotions
- Heroes
- combines fiction and horror, death, and at times romance
- Romantic movement
- artistic, literary, musical and intellectual movement
- emphasis on emotional and imaginative spontaneity
- importance of self-expression and individual feeling
- religious response to nature
- capacity for wonder and consequently
- ‘primitive' forms of art
- concern for the outcasts of society
- Life under Queen Victoria
- Rich people could afford lots of treats
- poor people had to work in factories
- Steam trains made travel a lot easier
- Cities became crowded, busy and dirty
- Victorian schools were very strict
- Charlotte Bronte
- English novelist and poet
- she worked as a tecaher and a governess
- The Gothic genre
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