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Gothic Elements in Jane Eyre
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-Castle-like setting
-Omens, visions; supernatural or unexplainable events
-"Damsel in distress"
-Threatening male character
-Gloomy, dark setting
Weather
Dark and Gloomy Weather
Playing on the Gothic Elements, dark weather typically implies hard times and ominous foreshadowing.
Jane Eyre:
Gothic Elements
When it is Cold
Colder weather, rather dark as well as Gothic, mostly represents the times when Jane is really struggling with herself, rather than her circumstances.
Warm, Sunny, and Romantic
Good weather is rather double sided. Half the time it is good and represents Jane being in a good place and the other half caters to the more Gothic and dark elements of the novel.
Character
Bertha and Jane are parallels: Bertha represents Jane's inner turmoils and Jane's fear of being trapped and imprisoned by Rochester
Setting
The Red Room
Bertha makes Thornfield creepy via her fire-setting, pain-inflicting, mysterious personality.
-Place of death/ghost
-Jane's fear and anger
-Prison-like/entrapment
Rochester's Entrance
Bertha
-Gytrash (Pilot)
-In the forest, at night
-Weather (cold, icy)
What makes a novel Gothic?
Tone
Bertha contributes to the theme through her insanity to produce a mysterious, haunting tone.
Setting
Thornfield
Theme
-Dark, gloomy
-Element of mystery (Bertha's laughs)
-Chestnut tree
Bertha represents submission and imprisonment.
These are created by Rochester.
Element of romance
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