Critics Flashcards
Critic that argued that Jane Eyre is undisciplined.
Elizabeth Rigby. ‘Jane Eyre is throughout the personification of an unregenerate and undisciplined spirit’.
Critic that argued Jane Eyre goes against authority.
Elizabeth Rigby. ‘…the tone of mind and thought which has overthrown authority… and fostered Chartism and rebellion at home, is the same which has also written Jane Eyre.’
Critic that argued Jane Eyre goes against God’s will.
Elizabeth Rigby. Jane Eyre is ‘a murmuring against God’s appointment’.
Misogynist critic.
George Henry Lewis. He called Jane Eyre ‘the very antipode to lady like’.
Critic argued thast Jane Eyre is a feminist novel
Richard Chase, ‘Jane Eyre is a feminist tract, an argument for social betterment of governesses and equal rights for women’
Critic argued that Bronte is a religious woman.
Sure Lonoff, ‘The Brontë sisters grew up on the bible, not the classics’
Critic discusses Bertha
Gubar and Gilbert, ‘Bertha…is Jane’s truest and darkest double’
Critic argued that Jane is powerful
Francis Gilbert, ‘Jane is constantly rebelling against the male-dominated culture of the time and carving her own feminist path’
Critic discuesses Janes relationship with love
Charles Berkharte, ‘Jane Eyre’s religion is love’
