In Jane Eyre, romance, love and desire are all crucial themes. Charlotte herself was a helpless romantic and found herself falling in love with the director of Pensionnat Heger, Constantin Heger. This heavily influenced her writing of Jane Eyre because she was able to add in her own romantic fantasies, and allow Jane to live them out. This is why Jane's feelings for Rochester are so passionately portrayed. Charlotte used imagery and memories from her own life and her own dreams to make this book come to life.
Tuesday, August 25, 2009
When Charlotte Brontë wrote under the pseudonym "Currer Bell" she was trying to persuade her readers by allowing them to think under their own opinions, rather than on the assumption that the author was either male or female. The Brontë sisters deciding to publish their books as neither masculine or feminine authors was a smart idea because they were able to write about the fantasy worlds they had always imagined without judgement. This allowed the readers to be shocked and thrilled at this new type of writing and Romanticism. As the Prologue states, Charlotte was able to write a love story about sexual hypocrisy and how girls were thought of at the time.
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Very intuitive, Rikki. You've also jumped the gun on the Bronte biography I'm handing out tomorrow. I like how you set up a simple argument yet do not devolve into simplicity of language in its explanation. Consider this: IS Charlotte meant to be Jane? Or is she locked in the attic? Remember this is an unmarried woman who never got beyond 100 miles of home in her short life.....
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