Jane Eyre


Addressing readers in ch 10

Fairy talking to her abt placement and stuff- advertisment

Gothic aspect comes from the screaming and dreaming out there in Jane's lyf.

Feminist aspect can arise from - lively experience

The recommendation letter- Jane analysing the handwriting estimating it to be a elderly woman, imaginative part 

Adventures as escape


Chapter 11

The dark and light theme brings out gothic motif .

Clocked and experienced time (duree)- Henry Bergson 

a)objective which is measured

b) lived time


Pg91

Jane curiosity - extreme

Curiosity a gendered thing 

Omniscient narrator moulding the perceptios of readers 

Attic- store where useless things kept ( Bertha considered a useless entity for Rochester)

Shrine of memory- Thornfield

Laughter as gendered thing

 Henry James- turn of the screw

 Transgression 

Gytrash 

 

Pg109 - painting skills : she paints vividly , draws her dreams, unconscious mind. 

Her Paintings depicting inner spirit and thoughts. 


Paintings as presentiments 

Corpse 

Bust - finding herself

 Loved tyranny- Rochester

Unloved despotism- St Johns



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