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• Gloomy setting represents Rochesters state of mind

• House is isolated with no sign of habitation nearby represents Rochesterès isolation from world

• Isolation of house represents Jane and Rochester isolated from society and on their own

• “I led him out of the wet and wild wood into some cheerful fields: I described to him how brilliantly green they were; how the flowers and hedges looked

refreshed; how sparklingly blue was the sky. I sought a seat for

him in a hidden and lovely spot, a dry stump of a tree.”(447)

• Greenery surrounding house symbolizes chance for healing and recovery

• "You are no ruin, sir--no lightning-struck tree: you are green and

vigorous. Plants will grow about your roots, whether you ask them

or not, because they take delight in your bountiful shadow; and as

they grow they will lean towards you, and wind round you, because

your strength offers them so safe a prop."(452)

Similarities to Charlotte Bronte

Charlotte Bronte

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"Field Of Thorns"

Impact on Jane Eyre

The Drawing-Room Setting

GATESHEAD

  • Thorns = Rose
  • Thorns = Jane’s pain from hearing the truth about Rochester’s first marriage
  • Petals & fragrance = Jane’s feelings towards Rochester’s love and affection

  • Opening of the Story
  • Representation of Jane/Bronte's childhood

- Bronte uses the setting of Lowood to describe her real life situation and feelings towards the school she previously attended, Cowan Bridge School.

- All 3 Bronte sisters attended the institution.

- They were often feed burnt porridge or told to wash their body with frozen water, similar to Jane.

- Some characters from the setting are also influenced by Charlotte’s life:

  • Mr. Brocklehurst: William Carus Wilson (Head of Cowan)
  • Helen Burns: Maria Bronte (Charlotte’s Sister)
  • “…Eliza, John, and Georgiana were now clustered round their mama in the drawing-room: she lay reclined on a sofa by the fireside, and with her darlings about her…looked perfectly happy” (Bronte 6)
  • Demonstrating family comfort and warmth that Jane never felt
  • Tells the story of Bronte who had no mother and was raised by her aunt

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- Kindness and compassion of Helen Burns and Mrs. Temple.

- Miss temple plays an important role in the inner and emotional development of Jane Eyre’s character.

- Helen has become someone who has influenced Jane. Most of the advice and lessons Helen taught Jane is visible in her actions throughout the novel. Including Jane’s character becoming more forgiving (this is visible towards Mrs. Reed), and implementing her religion more into her everyday life.

- Jane has also matured since she entered Lowood. She enters as a pupil, and in six years turns into a teacher and mentor for the students at Lowood.

*In the novel, Jane leaves for Gateshead, when she realizes that Mrs. Reed has suffered a stroke and is nearing death.

  • Effective because Rochester realizes how important Jane is for him, and that he loves her.

- Reflects back to Bronte’s life, where her aunt, Miss Branwell, dies, and so Bronte returns home from her studies of French and German.

- It’s effective because we get to see Charlotte’s past through her book, Jane Eyre, which personalizes the book.

*Jane in the novel rejects the marriage proposal of St. John

• Again reflects back to Charlotte Bronte’s life, where she also rejects Reverend Henry Nussey.

- The Bronte sisters were referred to as “charity children” at Cowen, similar to the way Lowood student are seen.

TOPIC

Identify the 5 settings in the novel, and briefly describe how Bronte uses each to tell her story effectively.

Moor House

Ferndean Manor

Thornfield

Jane Eyre

The Winter Setting

Lowood Academy

The Red Room Setting

• In this setting the nature and surrounding symbolizes the state of mind and emotions of Rochester

• “The manor-house of Ferndean was a building of considerable antiquity, moderate size, and no architectural pretensions, deep buried in a wood… His father had purchased the estate for the sake of the game covers. He would have let the house, but could find no tenant, in consequence of its ineligible and insalubrious site. Ferndean then remained uninhabited and unfurnished…To this house I came just ere dark on an evening marked by the characteristics of sad sky, cold gale, and continued small penetrating rain… so thick and dark grew the timber of the gloomy wood about it… no sign of habitation or grounds was visible.… then the house--scarce, by this dim…so dank and green were its decaying walls … There were no flowers, no garden-beds; only a broad gravel-walk girdling a grass-plat, and this set in the heavy frame of the forest…’Can there be life here?’ I asked.”(437-438)

  • “We have been wandering, indeed, in the leafless shrubbery…the cold winter had brought with it clouds so sombre, and a rain so penetrating” (Bronte 6)
  • Dark and gloomy atmosphere
  • Symbolizing Jane’s emotions: sadness, loneliness, and depression

Five Settings:

Description:

  • “[it] was a spare chamber, very seldom slept in…chill [and] silent…” where Mr. Reed took his last breath (Bronte 12-13)
  • Where Jane was locked-up by her aunt
  • Felt scared and lonely in this dark room
  • Reminded her of her dear uncle

  • It is further shown that Jane is not used to being loved or given intention by anyone
  • “Oh, sir!—never mind jewels! I don’t like to hear them spoken of. Jewels for Jane Eyre sounds unnatural and strange; I would rather not have them.” (Bronte 263)
  • Jane has a reason to move on in her life, which results in Jane discovering her cousins
  • This way the story is constantly moving along the plot graph
  • “Mr. Rochester, I no more assign this fate to you…” (322)

- Charity school for orphan children

- Run by Mr. Brocklehurst

- The school has many rooms that housed many poor and orphaned girls

- Horrible conditions including burnt porridge for dinner, and cold water to bathe in.

- Jane describes Lowood’s setting as “…a house or houses —with many windows, and lights burning in some; … broad pebbly path, splashing wet…” (Bronte 42). The way Jane describes the setting implies how Lowood was depicted to be a very cold and dark place.

• Jane relates to the setting that surrounds her

• She speaks of the setting as if she is speaking about her emotions

• Moor House is a place of refuge and recovery for Jane

• Moor House is place where she reflects on her decisions and where she will go

• This setting is connected to Charlotte Bronte’s life as she and her sisters were inspired by landscape of the Moors

• Charlotte Bronte spent a lot of time in the Moors to reflect and find peace

  • Gothic- empty hallways & laughter
  • Jane Eyre and Edward Rochester’s romance
  • Rochester is already married to Bertha Mason
  • Jane makes the decision to leave Thornfield

• For each period of Janes life there is a new setting

• The setting sets the tone and foreshadows the events that follow

• “ I, too, in the grey, small, antique structure, with its low roof, its latticed casements, its mouldering walls, its avenue of aged firs--all grown aslant under the stress of mountain winds...--and where no flowers but of the hardiest species would bloom--found a charm both potent and permanent. … I say, with a perfect enthusiasm of attachment. I could comprehend the feeling, and share both its strength and truth. I saw the fascination of the locality. I felt the consecration of its loneliness: ... These details were just to me what they were to them--so many pure and sweet sources of pleasure. The strong blast and the soft breeze; the rough and the halcyon day; the hours of sunrise and sunset; the moonlight and the clouded night, developed for me, in these regions, the same attraction as for them--wound round my faculties the same spell that entranced theirs.”(335 Bronte)

1. Gateshead

2. Lowood

3. Thornfield

4. Moor House

5. Ferndean Manor

By:

Khadija, Jasmeet, Ghazal, and Sameya

Jane Eyre Seminar

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