“The plot of Jane Eyre works towards a redistribution of power and wealth but […] its revolution improves only the lot of the middle class, closing out the working class.” Susan Meyer

ROLE OF GOVERNESS= causes social mobility (new middle classes/ wealth because of industrial revolution) but between classes ('you are worse than a servant'/ 'a dependent'/ 'you shouldn't eat food with gentleman's children like us')

('In her I see all the faults of her class','the whole tribe... a nuisance... all incubi')

(At Thornfield Jane is surrounded by other ‘outcasts’ who search for avenues of escape from patriarchal containment and restrictions largely connected to "ambiguities of status" Gilbert and Gubar

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“one of the central problems of the novel [is] the apparently blithe predication of the liberty and happiness of a few upon the confinement and suffering of the many.” Penny Boumelha)

Inheritance makes Jane more 'masculine' in that she gains financial independence/ only marries- many critics, such as Richard Chase, see Rochester’s injuries as a “symbolic castration”, a punishment for his earlier promiscuity

	Created by Libby Caffrey over 11 years ago

Note on Critical quotes- Jane Eyre, created by Libby Caffrey on 14/04/2013.

Critical quotes- Jane Eyre