Jane Eyre notes (1st edition)

samenvatting van Jane Eyre

As Ellis notes, ‘Jane Eyre retains all the key thematic elements of the Bildungsroman’, and certain passages within her narrative offer an optimistic outlook and conclusion to her tribulations. Thus, I will examine the view that ‘the Bildungsroman is a fundamentally optimistic genre’, whilst considering its historical development and how the form applies to Charlotte Brontë’s novel.

These are the complete set of revision notes that I did the day before my exam. I wrote out every theme within Jane Eyre, gave a description of the context/writers intention's that influenced it as well as the name of each character linked to the them with their quotes. I included the themes of marriage, the Gothic, appearance, social class, gender equality, religion, fire and ice motifs, 'the other' and education. Each section has a detailed, in depth description of the characters, themes a...

A 1 1/2 page, 40-mark essay on the novel Jane Eyre. Focusing on the relation between physical and mental abuse to informing readers of social issues, as portrayed by Charlotte Bronte.