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Gothic Themes in Jane Eyre
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Gothic Theme
Lowood Academy
- The death of Helen
Gothic novel
noun
- a genre of fiction characterized by mystery and supernatural horror, often set in a dark castle or other medieval setting
Gateshead Manor
- The Red Room
Morton
- Marriage proposal
- The moon "...the moon was setting in the waves, broad and ed, like a hot cannon-ball--she threw her last bloodyglance over the atmosphere and scene... (Brontë 298).
Ferndean House
Thornfield Hall
- The disability
- The disability "Can there be life here" (Brontë 410)?
- Bertha "...and at first, I thought it was Pilot; but Pilot cannot laugh, and I am certain I heard a laugh, and a strange one" (Brontë 156).
- The chestnut tree "...the great horse-chestnut at the bottom of the orchard [in which Mr. Rochester and I sat] had been struck by lightning in the night, and half of it split away" (Brontë 249).
Jane Eyre
Jane Eyre, written by Charlotte Bronte, can and should be read as a Gothic novel. Its use of mystery, sinister motives, and overall eeriness makes this novel a Gothic epic.
Gothic Symbols in Jane Eyre
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