Intertextuality/ Romantic Narrative

Question 1

Bennett and Royle Endings

Answer 1

“The end of Jane Eyre… would then seem to confirm a sense that texts are inevitably linked up with other texts and that there is no simple beginning or end to any text”

Question 2

JE 1

Answer 2

“but as his wife - at his side always, and always restrained, and always checked - forced to keep the fire of my nature continually low… - this would be unendurable”

Question 3

JE 2

Answer 3

“Reader, I married him.”

Question 4

TT 1

Answer 4

“he does not love me enough, I am not beautiful enough. I am not feminine enough coming here to ask him to marry me when I should have waited to be asked”

Question 5

TT 2

Answer 5

“If I was someone else, someone strong and independent I would tell you now, I don’t want to go back with you, I don’t want to leave my family”