On the surface level, Brontë’s portrayal of Jane as a successful and independent woman that can equal her male counterpart, Rochester, is a noble cause that warrants applause from fem-inist critics. However, Rhys ultimately demonstrates through WSS that Bronte has not been able to read as a woman, in Culler’s terms. WSS exposes how the empowerment of Brontë’s female protagonist, Jane, in Jane Eyre depends upon the marginalisation and fall of another woman, Bertha Mason
otherwise known as Charlotte Bronte, supports her inventive writing style throughout her novel Jane Eyre, where her ability to portray such loveless adolescence for main character, Jane, stunned me, as the poor orphan culminated into a victorious, heroic adult. While motherhood during the Victorian Era was the gateway to female fulfillment in a male-dominant society, I questioned Bronte’s choice in constraining Jane to such a toxic, unbearable childhood without a mother, but sought even more,
Maintaining Dignity Jane Eyre written by Charlotte Bronte is a captivating novel about a young woman who learns the importance of independence and dignity. Jane’s character develops through a series of many struggling experiences, getting misunderstood by several people, and by having many influential teachers; which helped her make moral decisions throughout the novel. Jane learns that her happiness should not be at the expense of giving into society’s version of normal. Jane Eyre is first introduced
Character Analysis: Desdemona Many classic novels and playwrights are about girls that must prove themselves to the reader. However, Desdemona, wife of army general Othello in Shakespeare’s tragedy Othello, proves throughout the play that she is borne of loyalty, independence, and naivety. Desdemona’s many forms of loyalty are shown in subtle and clear ways. One of these forms of loyalty is loyalty to herself. This is shown in the idea behind the play. Desdemona’s family expects her to marry a
My Second Excursion to Whangedoodleland: An Analysis of Reader’s Response Theory First proposed by the late Louise Rosenblatt, reader’s response theory is an innovative conjecture on how and why people react in varying ways to a text. Specifically, Rosenblatt states in her work that a reader brings to the work personality traits, memories of past events, present needs and preoccupations, a particular mood of the moment and a particular physical condition when interacting with a text. In her second