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Themes, motifs. symbols- Jane Eyre
Fire-
warmth
Jane likens to herself
anger
passion
spirit
Rochester
Ice-
lonliness
death
St John 'freezing spell'
emotional desolation
Lowood's freezing temperatures
Substitute mothers-
Miss Temple 'the stead of a mother'
Diana and Mary
Bessie
moon 'a white human form' 'it spoke to my spirit'
bouncey bounce to themes
MONSTER!!! oh SHIT!!
CLIMB!!!
WOOOO DONE!
love vs autonomy-
quest for love and acceptance
fear of loosing autonomy motivates refusal of marriage to Rochester
But in the end chooses love
Religion-
Bronte presents different sides of religion like in Pilgrim's Progress
Brocklehurst- uses it for power, hypocrytical. rhetoric evangelism
Jane- finds comfortable middle ground
St John- ambition, moral duty, giving up life
Burns- blind faith
Gender relations-
patriarchal domination
Social class-
Jane is a figure of ambiguous class standing
Have some treasure
Motifs
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Symbols
The red room-
echoes Victorian pornography
female body- trapped in inferior state?
womb- Mrs Reed forcing her back in to be reborn with a new attitude
trapped in social ladder
symbol of what Jane must overcome in her struggles to find freedom, happiness and belonging
socially and financially trapped
reoccurs as memories
Bertha-
Gilbert and Gubar- represents subverted pain and rage experienced by Bronte
smbol of how the British feared and psychologically locked out foreigners
catalyses Janes self understanding
menifestation of Janes subconcious feelings
symbollic of trapped Victorian wife