Essays about: "Jane Eyre"

Showing result 1 - 5 of 56 essays containing the words Jane Eyre.

  1. 1. Cultural Clash and Gender Roles : Exploring the Quest for Equality in Jane Eyre and Things Fall Apart

    University essay from Karlstads universitet/Fakulteten för humaniora och samhällsvetenskap (from 2013)

    Author : Anne M Johansson; [2024]
    Keywords : Gender; cultural clash; equality; religion; colonialism; Genus; kulturkrock; jämställdhet; religion; kolonialism;

    Abstract : The purpose of this essay is to analyze the intersectionality between themes of cultural clash and gender roles within the novels Jane Eyre by Charlotte Brontë and Things Fall Apart by Chinua Achebe, accentuating their common quest for equality. This essay offers a historical and cultural analysis, divulging the gender norms prevalent in Victorian England and pre-colonial Nigeria, serving as a backstage to the characters’ adaptations and struggles. READ MORE

  3. 2. Disrupting Dominant Discourses: : Hybridity in Jane Eyre and Get Out

    University essay from Högskolan i Halmstad/Akademin för lärande, humaniora och samhälle

    Author : Nimrod Numan; [2023]
    Keywords : Jane Eyre; Get Out; Dominant discourses; Othering; Gothic; Hybridity; Double Consciousness; White Privilege; Racial Performance; Visual metaphor.;

    Abstract : This study examines the theme of hybridity in Charlotte Brontë’s novel Jane Eyre and Jordan Peele’s film Get Out. Both the narrative text in the novel and the script with visual elements of the film use the concept of hybridity through Gothic motifs: a mad non-white woman in the attic in Jane Eyre and a psychological place in Get Out, where members of a white family hypnotise black people in order to exploit their physical capabilities. READ MORE

  4. 3. "I have alluded to him, Reader". Categorising literary references in Jane Eyre (1847)

    University essay from Göteborgs universitet/Institutionen för litteratur, idéhistoria och religion

    Author : Olivia Nordgren; [2022-02-17]
    Keywords : Charlotte Brontë; Jane Eyre; allusions; references; structuralism; dimensions of the text; textual and extratextual; allusioner; referenser; strukturalism; textdimensioner; textuellt och extratextuellt;

    Abstract : This essay examines the use of references to real books within the narrative of Charlotte Brontë’s Jane Eyre (1847). Jane Eyre is one of the most densely allusive novels of its time, which is well-documented, but there is a limited focus on the use of allusions and references woven into its narrative, as opposed to the references woven into the textual side of the prose itself. READ MORE

  5. 4. I will break obstacles to happiness : An Analysis of how Mr. Rochester Challenges the Victorian Masculine Norm and the Boundaries of Separate Spheres in Jane Eyre

    University essay from Högskolan Väst/Institutionen för individ och samhälle

    Author : Lena Woodrow; [2022]
    Keywords : Literature studies; English literature; Jane Eyre;

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  6. 5. Examining Childhood Resilience in Charlotte Brontë’s Jane Eyre : A Psychoanalytic Critical Reading

    University essay from Högskolan Dalarna/Institutionen för språk, litteratur och lärande

    Author : Emelie Seger; [2022]
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