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    <title>Jane Eyre Group at eNotes</title>
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        <title><![CDATA[Mrs. Reed is Jane’s auntie. She had promised her husband to take care...]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[Mrs. Reed is Jane’s auntie. She had promised her husband to take care of Jane and to treat her as one member of the family. However, Jane becomes a burden to Mrs. Reed. After an incident between Jane and his cousin John Reed, in which he bullies her, Jane is sent to the Red Room, where she experiences feelings of fright and panic. As a result, Mrs. Reed decides to send Jane to Lowood, a boarding school for orphans. She lies to Mr....]]></description>
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        <title><![CDATA[There's a great site you can go to:...]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[There's a great site you can go to:
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/masterpiece/janeeyre/
This is the PBS masterpiece theater page.  Click on "The Victorian Governess" (up at the top or to the left under "features") to find information about a Governess' education, role in her employer's household, salary, and job description.  Then decide for yourself!]]></description>
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        <title><![CDATA[What about the ideas of equality and love?  Jane struggles to...]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[What about the ideas of equality and love?  Jane struggles to understand her place in society and will not be with Rochester until they are truly "equal" (and his wife is dead.)  Why does Jane only consider herself Rochester's equal once she has inherited money and he has been disfigured?
Is the "love" between Jane and Rochester really that at all, especially in the beginning?  If Rochester truly loves Jane, why is he always finding little...]]></description>
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        <pubDate>Thu, 26 Nov 2009 06:02:13 PST</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[When Jane Eyre was published in the late 1840's, the literary form of...]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[When Jane Eyre was published in the late 1840's, the literary form of the novel had only been in existence for about 80 years, and it can trace its literary ancestry directly to the novel Pamela, which first told the story of the trials of a young woman servant in late 18th century England.
What's interesting to note about Jane Eyre is her transformation and transcendence at each stage in the novel -- from one estate or hall to another --...]]></description>
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        <pubDate>Wed, 25 Nov 2009 05:33:02 PST</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[1. Jane Eyre is a bildungsroman, a character-education novel, tracing...]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[1. Jane Eyre is a bildungsroman, a character-education novel, tracing through the life journey of an individual.
2. The central theme is identity development both psychically and socially.
3. Gender is another key point in the novel. Especially in recent times, the novel has been made a subject of diverse feminist critical approaches. While, on the one hand, it is often seen as a feminist text, championing a woman's struggle, her writing of...]]></description>
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        <pubDate>Tue, 24 Nov 2009 23:51:23 PST</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[Provide an analysis of "Jane Eyre."]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[Provide an analysis of "Jane Eyre."]]></description>
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        <pubDate>Tue, 24 Nov 2009 22:51:09 PST</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[How does Mrs. Reed, Mr. Brockelhurst, Mr. Rochester, and other...]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[How does Mrs. Reed, Mr. Brockelhurst, Mr. Rochester, and other characters lie to Jane?]]></description>
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        <pubDate>Tue, 24 Nov 2009 17:22:20 PST</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[This is a difficult question, but it is most likely an homage to Mary...]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[This is a difficult question, but it is most likely an homage to Mary Ann Evans, known more commonly by her psuedonym, George Eliot. Eliot was a contemporary of Bronte, and the two authors (along with Emily Bronte) stand as the greatest female authors of the Victorian Age.
All three women used male psuedonyms to validate their writings, because the novels would most likely have been dismissed out of hand as the work of women. Eliot's most...]]></description>
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        <pubDate>Mon, 23 Nov 2009 22:45:11 PST</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[That's a tough one... without re-reading the book, I have some...]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[That's a tough one... without re-reading the book, I have some suggestions.  Early on (like 2 or 3 pages in), Jane talks about a book she is reading.  It is Thomas Bewick's "History of British Birds." The book itself is real, and it was published from 1797-1804, which suggests that the story takes place sometime after 1804.  Other than that, Mr. Rochester's excursion to Jamaica gives a time frame for British imperialism in the West Indies,...]]></description>
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        <title><![CDATA[I have to put together a project, but I am having a very hard time...]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[I have to put together a project, but I am having a very hard time finding a quote that supports when the story takes place?]]></description>
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        <title><![CDATA[Jane Eyre has to go on a long journey of self discovery before she can...]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[Jane Eyre has to go on a long journey of self discovery before she can finally come to a place where she is able to be with the man she loves. This journey includes many stops, each which allows Jane to understand herself and her desire better. She moves from Gateshead to Lowood, marking a movement from the passionate outbursts of a child to the rational response to criticism that comes from maturity. From Lowood to Thornfield, Jane is able to...]]></description>
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        <pubDate>Fri, 6 Nov 2009 08:09:24 PST</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[In what ways is the idea of journey significant to the understanding of...]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[In what ways is the idea of journey significant to the understanding of Jane Eyre?]]></description>
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        <pubDate>Fri, 6 Nov 2009 06:40:13 PST</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[Jane Eyre as a novel does have shades of the Gothic horror genre...]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[Jane Eyre as a novel does have shades of the Gothic horror genre especially in its changing spatial frames from Gateshead to Thornfield to the burnt Thornfield later. The Red Room experience early on as well as the entire stay at Thornfield Hall with the spectre of Bertha Mason haunting the Gothic mansion, the novel does make use of this genre, but to call Jane a Gothic heroine would be isolating one element in her figure and turning it into...]]></description>
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        <pubDate>Tue, 3 Nov 2009 03:22:53 PST</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[Jane Eyre is a Bildungsroamn. So, quite obviously, it deals with the...]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[Jane Eyre is a Bildungsroamn. So, quite obviously, it deals with the character-development of Jane from Gateshead to Thornfield and beyond. It is the journey of a little girl, transforming into a full-fledged woman and the development of the moral faculty is of course a part of it though to reduce the novel to just a moral quest would be a bit of a simplification.
The two central moral choices for Jane involve Rochester and St. John Rivers...]]></description>
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        <pubDate>Tue, 3 Nov 2009 03:11:11 PST</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[To answer the question, I would have to disagree with one premise...]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[To answer the question, I would have to disagree with one premise contained in your question.  I disagree that Jane found love with her cousins.  Sure, she was independent, and her cousins were kind, and she was definitely welcome there, living with them.  And, her cousin John even proposed, imagining her as the perfect wife for his missionary endeavors abroad.  It was fairly obvious in his proposal however, that he didn't love her.  She...]]></description>
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        <pubDate>Wed, 28 Oct 2009 20:45:25 PST</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[In "Jane Eyre" why does Jane finally choose Rochester, since she has...]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[In "Jane Eyre" why does Jane finally choose Rochester, since she has already found love, independence and autonomy in her cousins?]]></description>
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        <pubDate>Wed, 28 Oct 2009 17:30:25 PST</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[Who does Jane know of that might fit the description "a real strapper...]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[Who does Jane know of that might fit the description "a real strapper ... big,brown, and buxom."?]]></description>
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        <pubDate>Sat, 24 Oct 2009 12:14:20 PST</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[Rochester proposes outdoors in keeping with the pathetic fallacy used...]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[Rochester proposes outdoors in keeping with the pathetic fallacy used throughout the novel. The pathetic fallacy is a device in which the weather/setting reflects the emotions of the characters. Because Jane is so intimately tied with her surroundings (the cold, wet weather in Gateshead reflects her isolation and depression, the various storms symbolize her own passion, etc.), it is only fitting that this culmination of their courtship should...]]></description>
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        <pubDate>Fri, 23 Oct 2009 11:54:22 PST</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[Jane Eyre - A moral quest. Can anyone help me with this. Gimme several...]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[Jane Eyre - A moral quest. Can anyone help me with this. Gimme several ideas &amp; quotes to prove it. Give me a pro &amp; con list. Thank you.]]></description>
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        <title><![CDATA[Why did Mr. Rochester propose outdoors in Jane Eyre?  Is Mr....]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[Why did Mr. Rochester propose outdoors in Jane Eyre?  Is Mr. Rochester's proposal related to the folk ballad of midsummer-eve, June 23?]]></description>
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        <pubDate>Mon, 19 Oct 2009 19:44:38 PST</pubDate>
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