Before Reading Jane

Jane Eyre by Charlotte Brontë
Romantic: aesthetic historical period.

• art rules: wave of style that go with a time & place.
• sets of culture/artistic expectations
• changes: fairly rapidly

How do the aesthetic "schools" change?
Timeline Shakespeare --> present day
13 - 14c.
Medieval
very church centric period

1600
Renaissance Apollo
Dante --> Divine Comedy --> allegory
Chaucer
NATIVE LANGUAGES

1600 - 1750
Baroque Dionysus
"pearls"
dense
Bach Handel

1750 - 1800
Classical (Roman) Apollo
architecture

1800
Romantic Dionysus
unconcious, dreams, supernatural, nature as diety, individualism
most monarchies are down and gone
industrial revolution

1900
Dada
Beats
Bauhaus


Romanticism

• individual
• nature
• dreams/unconscious
• return to the ancient world --> pre-Raphaelites
• Death

Music, dance, architecture moves slower than art, writing, poetry
Dionysus: replaced Hestia, wild unconscious
directly opposite Apollo: rational


JANE: plain, simple (feminine Joe); not a lot of overtone
EYRE: air, heir (inheritance), EIRE: Ireland, eerie.

"There was no possibility of taking a walk that day."
dark & stormy 1st person POV
Nature, nature, nature. Negative feel. Foreshadowing.

• Jane is healous of Eliza, John, and Georgiana Reed
• animosity Jane <--> Mrs. Reed
• depression: weather, landscape, Jane.
• Red = Anger.