Jane Eyre Book

Question 1

Novel General Info

Answer 1

• disregards contrains of literary genre
• no obligatory structure, style or subject
• open/ flexible
  -increase of literary rates (open for women)
• Two tradition categories of novels: realistic and romance

Question 2

Women Writers

Answer 2

• adoption of male pen names
• protect status as women
• avoid family disapproval
• protect work from prejudice
• to produce publication is a step out of the private realm

Question 3

Victorian England

Answer 3

• rapid technological, political and socio-economic change due to the industrial revolution
• science challenging long standing religious ideas
• Charles Darwin’s The Origin of the Species

Question 4

Scientific Revolution

Answer 4

• Charles Darwin’s The Origin of Species
• Natural selection and survival of the fittest
• For some scientific scholars, the bible not a sacred infallible document, but history text

Question 5

Historical Conditions

Answer 5

• London centre of influence for western civilization
• population grew from 2-6.5 million
• shift from farming to urban
• first country to industrialize
• created wealth for some but economic and social problems for the majority

Question 6

Historical conditions (working)

Answer 6

• growth of slums
• no regulations of working conditions
• exploitation for profit
• factories and railroads
• periods of empire building aborad and rapid construction at home

Question 7

Romantic Period

Answer 7

• commences win 1789: Samuel Coleridge and William Wordsworth “The Lyrical Ballads”
• Ended with coronation of Queen Victoria
• valued the imagination over reason
• nature is the source over reason
• nature is the soure of creative/ moral inspirations
• Championed individual over social order
• critiqued class basedd hierarchies

Question 8

5 Key locations

Answer 8

• Gateshead
• Lowood Institution
  -Thornfield Hall
• Marsh End/ Moor House
• Ferndean

Question 9

Rochester vs St. John Rivers

Answer 9

R: Ugly, dark, fire, Vulcan, False Idol, Earthyl Pleasures, Eros Passion
- SJR: Handsome, Blond, Ice, Apollo, Conventional religious beliefs, heavenly rewards, agape love, reason

Question 10

Governess in Victorian Society

Answer 10

• Dispossessed middle class women
• not a guest, a mistress or a real servant
• almost described as a form of slavery: exploited and mistreated