Jane Eyre and foreshadowing
Jane Eyre is one of the most popular pieces of fiction ever written. At different periods since its publication it has been accused of immorality, of irreligion, of being unfeminine or too feminine, of alarming independence from convention, or too much reliance on it, of rejecting male supremacy or encouraging. It has been called an account for bad structure, bad characterization, lack of control, lack of ideas, lack of philosophy and for containing irreconcilable paradoxes. As times changed, so did the views of the readers. The author Charlotte Bronte has been criticized as well as praised about her writings. She was described by George Lewes to George Elliot as "A little plain, provincial, sickly looking old maid", yet George Elliot added to her journal having been so overwhelmed by the novels "What passion, what fire in her!" Elizabeth Gaskell, her biographer as well as fellow female Victorian novelist remarked : "In general there she sits quite alone thinking over the past . . . She has the wild strange facts of her own and her sisters lives, - - and beyond and above these she has the most original and suggestive thoughts of her own: so that, like the moors, I felt on the last day as if our talk might be extended in an
Jane Eyre is set in England in the early 1800's. She is a "plain and poor and small" orphan living with her cruel Aunt Reed. When she rebels she is locked into a room in which her uncle died. Her aunt sends her away to a charity school run by a harsh man, Mr. Brocklehurst. She is offered employment by Mrs. Fairfax, as governess to young Adele Varens, ward of Mr. Rochester of Thornfield Hall. Despite Rochester's cynical and harsh exterior, Jane finds herself drawn to him. that I have lost (or won if you like) a whole day in reading it . . . . Who the author can be I can't guess, if a woman she knows her language better than most ladies do, or has had "classical" education. It is a fine book, the man and woman capital, the style very generous and upright, so to speak. . . . Give my respects and thanks to the author, whose novel is the first English one (and the French are only romances now) that I've been able to read for many a day. Jane has fallen in love with Rochester when she learns he is to marry Blanche Ingram, a beautiful and rich woman. Despite the carping of the moralists, Jane Eyre received a general and critical acclaim overnight. It ran into three editions in its first winter and the lending libraries were besieged for copies by their subscribers. Thackeray's encomiums crowned its success and gave the author her most intensely felt satisfaction. "It interested me so much," wrote Thackeray to the publisher,
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Approximate Word count = 1976
Approximate Pages = 8 (250 words per page double spaced)
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