themes jane eyre
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- Created on: 26-02-13 19:10
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- Religion
- Jane struggles to find the right balance between moral duty and earthly pleasure
- 3 main relogious figures
- Mr Brockelhurst
- hypocrite
- claims to be purging his students of pride through humiliation = un-christian
- St John Rivers
- urges Jane to sacrifice her emotional deeds for the fulfillment of her moral duty
- Helen Burns
- first introduces her to god
- Mr Brockelhurst
- Social Class
- social position of governesses
- Jane’s manners, sophistication, and education are those of an aristocrat, because Victorian governesses, who tutored children in etiquette as well as academics, were expected to possess the “culture” of the aristocracy
- more or less treated as servants
- Jane herself speaks out against class prejudice
- Gender Relations
- Jane struggles continually to achieve equality and to overcome oppression
- fight against patriarchal domination
- three central male figures threaten her
- Mr. Brocklehurst
- Edward Rochester
- St. John Rivers
- come to Rochester only after ensuring that they may marry as equals
- Religion
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