Post by Zachary Lloyd on Nov 16, 2015 23:21:47 GMT
The idea of nature is discussed in "Jane Eyre" and also the packet as describing Wide Sargasso Sea and the character of Bertha. In the novel, I propose that nature serves more to teach the reader or relate to them the way that Jane is feeling, providing a wide metaphoric view on her as a character. In a sense, Antoinnette (referred to as Bertha henceforth in this editorial) is also described by nature, but in a different way, which I will get into very soon.
Jane is someone who is passionate but alone, strong willed but burdened, and so forth. She wants to strike out to be her own woman, to resist subservience in a christian view towards men as their wives. The weather throughout the story changes from place to place and time to time, just as Jane's emotional states do. It rains when Jane is alone, it is sunny when Jane is married, storming when trouble is coming, etc. In a pseudo-contrast, nature is used with Bertha in WSS to describe her social attitudes emotional responses to troubles in her life. For example, Bertha struggles with faith and men and the role of women, among other things, and nature is described of as being a sort of safe haven for her character to escape these pressures.
This is where the meat and bones of the contrast exists, however loose it may seem. Jane is a very progressive "do it for yourself" type of gal, just as the weather is very progressive in giving information to Jane's emotional states concurrent to or later on in the novel. In the other corner, Bertha's association with weather is related as reactionary, with her various thoughts and feelings shaping her view on nature (and other things, no doubt). Nature is progressive in describing Jane and reactionary in describing Bertha via the way they present information on the character respectively.
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Jane is someone who is passionate but alone, strong willed but burdened, and so forth. She wants to strike out to be her own woman, to resist subservience in a christian view towards men as their wives. The weather throughout the story changes from place to place and time to time, just as Jane's emotional states do. It rains when Jane is alone, it is sunny when Jane is married, storming when trouble is coming, etc. In a pseudo-contrast, nature is used with Bertha in WSS to describe her social attitudes emotional responses to troubles in her life. For example, Bertha struggles with faith and men and the role of women, among other things, and nature is described of as being a sort of safe haven for her character to escape these pressures.
This is where the meat and bones of the contrast exists, however loose it may seem. Jane is a very progressive "do it for yourself" type of gal, just as the weather is very progressive in giving information to Jane's emotional states concurrent to or later on in the novel. In the other corner, Bertha's association with weather is related as reactionary, with her various thoughts and feelings shaping her view on nature (and other things, no doubt). Nature is progressive in describing Jane and reactionary in describing Bertha via the way they present information on the character respectively.
TRIVIA OF THE DAY: WHAT MOVIE??? **reply in comments for cookie**
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