Jane Eyre I

• Pictures form The Bronte’s fathers church – they are all buried there
• Jane Eyre’s emotional baggage
• Picture – 2 people; image of an old woman vs. young girl
• See old woman first – Jane sees the same, if you think you’re ugly you try to relate more to the ugly people à want to relate to others
• Jane stands up to Mr. Bocklehurst like David and Goliath
• “Don’t Die…” to avoid Hell
• Jane Picked her battles
• 2 Shadows – Jane reaching out for love- but elusive like a shadow people abandon her
• Invisibility
• Golden Calf – Jane’s attitude
• Can be like a bull stubborn
• Golden Calf – Emphasis on religion, like to bring it up, but Jane and such don’t feel connected to it though
• Idolatry, looking for Love in all the wrong places.
• Looking for an ideal (Us and our mission statements)
• Cycle – starts with her parents die, Aunt’s bad to her, she feels unwanted again and again
• People in Plan II find escape in school
• Growth as a person
• Tower – purpose in school & escape structure to our lives
• Susan B. Anthony – feminist images and ideals; radical ideas, but still Victorian ideas acceptable
• See what they want to see (expect to see)