Exploration of the Gothic in Jane Eyre

This is a presentation that I presented to my British Gothic Literature class my senior year.

2. Raised by Aunt and Servant
Lowood/ Cowan Bridge
Inspiration behind Helen Burns, Mr.
Brocklehurst, and Miss Temple
Occupations
Unrequited Love

3. Published in 1847 under psuedonym
Immediate Success
Morality Questioned
Changed the Novel
Adaptations/Productions

4. Setting
›Red Room
›Thornfield Hall
›Weather/Atmosphere

5. Supernatural
›Bessie’s Tales
›Jane’s Dreams
›Magic

6. Fragmentation
›Rochester’s Life
›Thornfield Hall
Unity
›Ferndean Manor
›Marriage of Jane and Rochester

7. Byronic Hero
Possesses a Secret
Primogeniture

8. Victimized
Virtuous
Lineage Issues
Incest

9. Return of the Repressed
Madwoman
Vampire

10. American Renaissance and American Romanticism: The Byronic
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