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Jene Eyre in English

Jene Eyre in English

By: Raja Babu
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 "This excellent guide does justice both to the intricate design of Brontë's novel and to its sheer strangeness."Raja Babu Art Literary History & Criticism
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  • What does the ending of Jane Eyre mean?

    What does the ending of Jane Eyre mean?
    Aug 23 2025

    What does the ending of

    Jane Eyre mean?

    For many readers, “the blackened ruin” which

    Jane finds when she returns to Thornfield, and the

    blinded, scorched and charred Rochester she

    seeks out at Ferndean, represent the vanquishing

    of the novel’s sexual energies. “Mr Rochester’s sex

    passion is not ‘respectable’,” said D.H. Lawrence,

    “till Mr Rochester is burned, blinded, disfigured

    and reduced to helpless dependence.

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    15 mins
  • Why does Jane return to Rochester?

    Why does Jane return to Rochester?
    Aug 23 2025

    Why does Jane return to

    Rochester?

    The portion of the novel which recounts Jane’s

    time as a parish schoolteacher at Morton, and her

    connection with the Rivers family, is often

    neglected, especially in film or television

    adaptations, as being irrelevant or at best

    secondary to the central love story. But this

    episode does not simply fill in gaps in the plot or

    delay Jane’s climactic return to Rochester.
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    16 mins
  • Why does Jane leave Rochester?

    Why does Jane leave Rochester?
    Aug 23 2025

    Why does Jane leave

    Rochester?

    “All self-sacrifice is good,” wrote George Eliot, on

    reading Jane Eyre, “but one could like it to be in a

    somewhat nobler cause than that of a diabolical

    law which chains a man body and soul to a

    putrefying carcase.
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    15 mins
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