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Description
Mind Map by Libby Caffrey, updated more than 1 year ago
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Created by Libby Caffrey
almost 12 years ago
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Socio-
economic
- 'The plot of Jane Eyre works towards a redistribution of power
and wealth but... its revolution improves only the lot of the
middle class'
Annotations:
- SUSAN MEYER
- HISTORICAL CONTEXT- Jane = governess= 'between classes'; poor/ 'worse
than the servants'/ 'not fit to associate with... gentleman's children'
- Importance of education for creation of middle class (redistribution of wealth during
INDUSTRIAL REVOLUTION)
- Hostility towards her 'caste'; 'in her I see all the faults of her class'
- Snobbery regarding governesses; 'the whole tribe... a nuisance... half of
them detestable and the rest ridiculous, all of them incubi'
- Hostility towards her 'caste'; 'in her I see all the faults of her class'
- Importance of education for creation of middle class (redistribution of wealth during
INDUSTRIAL REVOLUTION)
- Jane herself later receives an inheritance; financially
independent
- 'it is a fine thing to be lifted from indigence to wealth... a base of steady
satisfaction... independence would be glorious... '
- 'an individual of but average gastronomical powers sitting down to feast
alone at a table spread with provisions for a hundred'
- 'it is a fine thing to be lifted from indigence to wealth... a base of steady
satisfaction... independence would be glorious... '
- 'In Jane Eyre, the religious explanation determines
motivation and action' Barbara Hardy
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