exploration of the gothic in jane eyre
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Raised by Aunt and Servant
Lowood/ Cowan Bridge
Inspiration behind Helen Burns, Mr.
Brocklehurst, and Miss Temple
Occupations
Unrequited Love
Published in 1847 under psuedonym
Immediate Success
Morality Questioned
Changed the Novel
Adaptations/Productions
Setting
› Red Room
› Thornfield Hall
› Weather/Atmosphere
Supernatural
› Bessie’s Tales
› Jane’s Dreams
› Magic
Fragmentation› Rochester’s Life› Thornfield Hall
Unity› Ferndean Manor› Marriage of Jane and Rochester
Byronic Hero
Possesses a Secret
Primogeniture
Victimized
Virtuous
Lineage Issues
Incest
Return of the Repressed
Madwoman
Vampire
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Literature by Women: Volume 1.3rd ed. New York: W.W. Norton & Company Ltd., Castle House, 2007. Print.
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