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Thursday, October 24, 2013
McKennas Essay Idea
The most interesting part of the book for me in particular is basically the whole idea of feminism. Bronte manages to show the role of the function of nature using femininity; thereby creating one of the most pro feministic novels ever written. She takes it to a level of every day life by including the sun and the moon, emphasizing the passion and hysteria that comes with the lunar aspect. She uses something to dear to women, the idea or marriage, to symbolize not the bringing together of man and woman, but the equaling of each party. Equality is a major theme in the novel because Jane is such a feminist that she believes she cannot be in love if the person she loves is not equal to her. The novel is also very much based on an over abundance of passion, which tens to be a feminine quality; she uses the color red to push the limits on how much passion the reader can take, for example the fires and the sunsets and especially the red room. It is a place of pure passion, so much that it knocks Jane out altogether. The book also emphasizes love, Jane is constantly searching for her one true love, and when she finds it, she truly cannot let it go. This is one of the feministic qualities that define women, the lust, the passion, the need, the love. It truly is amazing how much feminism Charlotte Bronte shoves into a 524 page novel.
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McKenna,
ReplyDeleteI like that you've set out to approach this novel as a 'proto'-feminist work, but as you already seem to sense, it is essential that you look closely at this relationship between passion and femininity and that you consider her specific use of images such as the moon (and the sun) or fire (and ice--or even the color red to develop and defend whatever position you ultimately take with regard to whether or not this novel can be considered a hallmark of feminism.