Jane Eyre - Critic's Quotes

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Richard Moore calls Jane Eyre a 'love story' (Jane Eyre: Love and the Symbolism of Art) Yes, but not just romantic love: also familial love. *Also a story of self-hood and pursuit of identity.
Jean Wyatt suggests that the ending of Jane Eyre is unsatisfactory: rather than equality between Jane and Rochester developing through her entry into the world of work, it comes through Rochester's loss of mobility and ambition. So the ending of Jane Eyre is ultimately conservative - Rochester reduced to the 'weakness' of a woman.
Jean Wyatt: Bronte shows Jane as having a 'passionate assertion of autonomy and at the same a passionate commitment to romantic love' (Jane Eyre and Romantic Love) Jane's conflict over being Rochester's wife - she will be his property - conflict and angst over idolizing him - she cannot marry St. John for both these reasons.
Robyn Warhol: Jane voices the 'importance of self-articulation and self-determination' (Feminisms: An Antthology of Literary Theory and Criticism) This self-determination is nearly overpowered by Jane's love for Rochester, but she manages to overcome this.
Robyn Warhol: 'The story Jane tells is not simply the story of her movement from victim [...] to familied heiress [...] it is also the story of her own [...] desire for discursive intimacy' (Feminisms...) Link this to DRA.
Stevie Davies labels 'Jane Eyre' a 'parable of self-help' (Preface to Jane Eyre in Penguin edition.) Link this to her ambiguous social standing: 'you are worse than a servant' 'a dependent' 'a castaway' 'you shouldn't eat food with gentleman's children like us'
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