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    This document summarizes and analyzes key elements of Charlotte Brontë's 1847 novel Jane Eyre, including the Gothic influences, themes of enclosure and alienation, and the character of Bertha Mason. It discusses how Jane uses fantasy and defiance to escape victimization and fight against injustice and the patriarchy. Additionally, it examines Bertha Mason as a complex character who subverts dichotomies and represents passion, sensuality, and a doppelgänger for Jane.

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    Literatures en anglès dels segles XVII al XIX (Dra.

    Gemma Lopez)

    Jane Eyre, Charlotte Brontë (1847)

    - Original title: Jane Eyre: An Autobiography published under the


    pen name of Currer Bell.
    The Bildungsroman.

    Fairytales (Bluebeard, Beauty and the Beast), romance clichés, the Gothic mode.

    - The Red Room: the narrator as an angry child.


    The use of fantasy as a counterpart to real privations. The Harry Potter series.

    Use of focalisation to escape victimisation. Modern, self-reflexive narrative voice.

    The Red Room as enclosure.

    The Red Room as alienation and orphanhood.

    The Red Room as the construction of defiance in the face of injustice.

    Enclosure, alienation, defiance: fighting the patriarchy, living the rage.

    - The Attic: the madwoman as the narrative Other.


    The Madwoman in the Attic: The Woman Writer and the Nineteenth-Century Literary
    Imagination, Sandra Gilbert and Susan Gubar, 1979. The “angel” type v. the
    “monster” type. Subverting dichotomies.

    The Doppelgänger: passion, sensuality, sexuality, violence.

    - Bertha Mason.
    An obstacle?

    A goblin?
    A vampire?

    A madwoman?

    A Creole?

    - Bertha and Jane: Fighting the Patriarchy, Living the Rage.

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