English Literature / Unit 15 ENL 1409 short lesson, about 20 seconds
Charlotte Brontë: Jane Eyre
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The idea
Jane Eyre, published in eighteen forty-seven as by "Currer Bell," is a bildungsroman of a plain governess who loves Mr Rochester of Thornfield Hall. Their wedding is stopped because he is married to Bertha Mason. The anchor says it spoke for women's individuality; it ends, "Reader, I married him."
In practice
Governess, master, a hidden wife.
Where people slip
Jane narrates in the first person.
Your place on the trail
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