![]() In this new edition, Juliette Atkinson explores the power of narrative voice and looks at the striking physicality of the novel, which is both shocking and romantic. The emotional charge of Jane's story is as strong today as it was more than 150 years ago, as she seeks dignity and freedom on her own terms. Mysterious incidents that draw the pair closer together but which, once explained, threaten Jane's happiness and integrity.Ī flagship of Victorian fiction, Jane Eyre draws the reader in by the vigour of Jane's voice and the novel's forceful depiction of childhood injustice, of the restraints placed upon women, and the complexities of both faith and passion. ![]() Routine at the mansion is further disrupted by The monotony of Jane's new life at Thornfield Hall is broken up by the arrival of her peculiar and changeful employer, Mr Rochester. At the age of eighteen, sick of her narrow existence, she seeks work as a governess. 336), when Jane runs away from Rochester afterwards, Gentle reader, may you never feel what I felt (Vol. Throughout the hardships of her childhood - spent with a severe aunt and abusive cousin, and later at the austere Lowood charity school - Jane Eyre clings to a sense of self-worth, despite of her treatment from those close to her. These petitions to the reader always come at moments of heightened intensity or action, for example when Rochester asks Jane to forgive him after their first wedding-day, Reader, I forgave him (Vol. Critics have accused the narrator Jane of being too subjective and involved in writing her own feelings and ordeals she has received from her host family, her school, Edward Rochester and her cousin. "Gentle reader, may you never feel what I then felt!" The fictional Jane Eyre has expected an ideal reader, who approves her story by acquiescence, disregarding Charlotte Brontë’s actual readership.
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