“The plot of Jane Eyre works towards a redistribution of power and wealth but […] its revolution improves only the lot of the middle class, closing out the working class.” Susan Meyer

ROLE OF GOVERNESS= causes social mobility (new middle classes/ wealth because of industrial revolution) but between classes ('you are worse than a servant'/ 'a dependent'/ 'you shouldn't eat food with gentleman's children like us')

('In her I see all the faults of her class','the whole tribe... a nuisance... all incubi')

(At Thornfield Jane is surrounded by other ‘outcasts’ who search for avenues of escape from patriarchal containment and restrictions largely connected to "ambiguities of status" Gilbert and Gubar

“one of the central problems of the novel [is] the apparently blithe predication of the liberty and happiness of a few upon the confinement and suffering of the many.” Penny Boumelha)

Inheritance makes Jane more 'masculine' in that she gains financial independence/ only marries- many critics, such as Richard Chase, see Rochester’s injuries as a “symbolic castration”, a punishment for his earlier promiscuity

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Note on Critical quotes- Jane Eyre, created by bat918 on 13/05/2015.

Critical quotes- Jane Eyre