Settings In Jane Eyre
- Created by: elise.surtees
- Created on: 30-09-18 16:20
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- Settings in Jane Eyre
- Gateshead
- Jane is here until 10 years old
- learns the terrible power of economic and social status
- learns the expectations, opportunities and restrictions placed on people based on social class
- Wealthy perceived as intellectually/ethically superior
- authority to shape the world their way
- Poor labelled as unhealthy in body, mind, soul - sign of divine disfavour
- Therefore the affluent are divinely allowed to intervene in these lives to save them
- Wealthy perceived as intellectually/ethically superior
- Early years are spent at the mercy of wealthy relatives that despise her
- 'I was a discord in Gateshead Hall: I was like nobody there; I had nothing in harmony with Mrs. Reed or her children'
- Jane learns to stay in her social station (the hard way through torture) but she never comprises her sense of self or her conscience
- 'scarlet drapery'
- Red Room
- Jane's personal hell
- site of primal scene - moment when she experiences something so disturbing/incomprehensible it changes the child forever
- represents passion, foreshadows Jane's physical and spiritual love of EFR
- Lowood
- discovers class/gender hierarchies
- develops moral sense, independence, self-image
- deprivation, loneliness and isolation
- 'Who would think that the Evil One had already found a servant and agent in her?'
- Moor House
- achieves independence
- finally gets a family
- gains wealth
- Thornfield Hall
- gothic, ancestral manor of JE and EFR's romance
- 'ghost'/'demonica laugh' not really a gothic trope but a dark secret
- quickened with all of incident, life, fire, feeling, that I desired and had not in my actual existence
- mystery and restlessness
- 'the grey and battlementted hall'
- Ferndean
- marriage home of JE and EFR
- away from the troubled scene of Thornfield
- buried in woods showing seperation from world
- Gateshead
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