Other Interpretations Flashcards
What did Margaret Oliphant say in 1855?
The novel is “the Wild declaration of the rights of women”
What did Emily Montegut say in 1875?
“Charlotte Bronte imagines for us the life she might have had”
What did Virginia Woolf say in 1929?
The novel becomes ‘deformed and twisted’
What does David lodge describe the novel as in 1966?
The tension between “passion and reason”
What did Gilbert and Gubar say about Bertha in 1979?
“Bertha, is Jane’s truest and darkest double: she is the angry aspect of the orphan child” Jane’s wild impulses and sense of rebellion will not be killed off “until the literal and symbolic death of Bertha frees her from the furies that torment her and makes possible a marriage of equality”
What did Mary Ellis Gibson say in 1990?
“The conclusion of Brontes novel is ambiguous”
What did Angela Carter say in 1990?
The novel is full of “irresistible passion and madness”
What did Zoe Brennan say in 2010 about Jane’s relationship with St. John?
“A power struggle” because he has “a typically Victorian and patriarchal view of marriage”
