Jane Eyre: Names & Notes

Jane Eyre = "triple decker"

Book I --> Book II --> Book III
Lending libraries: Bk I, when returned get Bk II

NAMES

• Helen Burns
• Helen of Troy: most beautiful woman in the world; woman as goddess
• Burns symbolically: Joan of Arc = heretical; not dying by her own choice
• Grace Poole
• Grace: irony
• Poole: water, reflection, dark.
• Mrs. Fairfax
• Mrs.: no 1st name. not very important character
• Fair/facts: true? not much? ambiguous
• Adèle Varens
• Maria Temple
• Maria: Virgin Mary, Mary Magdalene
• Temple: prayer, safety, sanctuary, refuge, HOLINESS
• Edward Fairfax Rochester
• Edward: English king
• Rochester: where Dickens gre up, Kent; Famous English place
• Mr. Brocklehurst
• Brockle: not pleasant sounding
• herse: car for hauling bodies
• Miss Scatcherd
• Scratch Hard
• Gateshead
• Gate: opening on the story
  
• Head: beginning of a trial
• Thornfield
• Thorn: Christ's crown of thorns; great suffering
• Millcote
• Mill coat: something being made? cold?
• Lowood
• Low: humble
• Wood: where adventures begin; the darkest place (Arthurian Legend, Holy Grail)

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Ch. 15, last paragraph: Victorian sexual code

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• Bodies aren't people
• Jane's friendship with Helen transcends
• Helen's faith was so strong, her talk w/ Jane still affects Jane years later

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Return to the HERO'S JOURNEY!! oh boy!

Noble birth --> leaves home --> Mentor (Helen, Miss Temple) --> 1) 2) 3) Quest, trials and challenges; encounter with DEATH --> Return with the elixir

Carl Gustav Jung
Joseph Campbell: Hero with a Thousand Faces
Christopher Vogler: The Writer's Journey --> movies

• Critical Lenses
• Historicism
• Symbolism
• Jungian/Campbell's Hero's Journey
• Feminism/The Feminine Subtext

Deborah Tanner (sociolinguist): You Just Don't Understand --> Gender differences in communication

• Men: convey information
• Women: build & reinforce relationships
• material/subject is less important than talking itself
• Jane & Helen's first conversations: from BOOK to TEACHERS