2nd Oral Test

Professor: Washington
Aluna: Nayara
Tema: Foreignness and
"The Other" / Eliza Reed
Foreignness
and
"The Other"
 Foreignness and "The Other" is a complex theme in Jane Eyre.

England - Jamaica - India - France

ENGLAND JAMAICA
Mr. Rochester Bertha Mason

Described as a Described as a Creola

white Englishman. (her race was impure
"Her family wished compareted to Mr.
to secure me Rochester race).
because I was of The madness was due to
good race..." her race.
 WOULD JANE
BE RACIST?

Jane describes those who oppress and hurt her in racist terms:
Blanche Ingram: 'dark and majestic';
John Reed and his mother: dark skin.
Eliza
Reed
Eliza Jane’s cousin and one of Mrs. Reed’s two daughters.
Tall;

Reed Not beautiful;

Severe and repressed person;
Jealous person - her sister Georgiana who was
beautiful.
After her mother died - she escapes to France and
becomes a nun - not because she called to serve God.
Not religious woman - Mother Superior.
Thank you!