... of Gothic conventions that gives her novel popular as well as intellectual appeal. From the beginning, Jane Eyre explores and challenges the social preconceptions of nineteenth-century Victorian society. Themes of social class, gender relations, and injustice predominate throughout. Jane Eyre begins her story as an orphan raised by a wealthy and cultivated family, and this ambiguous social standing motivates much of the novel's internal tension ... our mama's expense. Now, I'll teach you to rummage my bookshelves: for they ARE mine; all the house belongs to me, or will do in a few years...

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... ; of science and its "solid principals", a bizarre attitude started to materialize in the general public; as it had started to become obvious that 'religion was being substituted by science'. The Victorian society seemed frightened almost paranoid of the recent inventions. Historians argue that the Victorians had always been superstitious even prior to the industrial upheaval. That in particular ... and riven: the trunk, split down the centre, gaped ghastly their great boughs on each side were dead" (Chapter 25) Furthermore, the entrance of the fortune-teller gives the novel a sense...

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Mystery and suspense in Bronte's novel Jane Eyre provides a crucial element to the reader's interpretation of the novel, allowing Bronte to subtly aid the reader in foreboding coming events. Bronte successfully creates mystery and suspense in her novel ... techniques are the use of literary symbolism and dreams, both of which are used to convey a Gothic and supernatural setting. Through the use of these literary devices, Jane Eyre becomes both cabbalistic and prophetic. Bronte's character Grace Poole is surrounded by a obscure haze from the reader's first introduction to her, an effective de...

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• Grade Level: High School

... Jane Eyre, Mr. Rochester appears to exemplify the idea of a Byronic hero, but Bronte eventually throws out any such classification of Rochester as such a character. Rochester does, however, possess qualities of the classical Byronic hero. In his manner, speech, and through comments made concerning him, Rochester is presented as both a Byronic hero and as being no different from most conventional heroes. In Chapter ... 14 of Jane Eyre, Rochester is described by a fire, sitting in eerie silence, but his emotion and feelings are never defined as one clear picture (136). Through this example...

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