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    <title>Jane Eyre Group at eNotes</title>
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    <description>The latest discussion, including questions and answers, from the Jane Eyre Group at eNotes.</description>
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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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        <pubDate>Tue, 10 Nov 2009 15:57:26 PST</pubDate>
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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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        <pubDate>Tue, 10 Nov 2009 13:42:55 PST</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[Jane Eyre has to go on a long journey of self discovery before she can...]]></title>
        <link>http://www.enotes.com/jane-eyre/q-and-a/what-ways-idea-journey-significant-understanding-113505</link>
        <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>
        <link>http://www.enotes.com/jane-eyre/q-and-a/jane-eyre-can-we-call-jane-an-gothic-heroine-58879</link>
        <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>
        <link>http://www.enotes.com/jane-eyre/q-and-a/jane-eyre-moral-quest-can-anyone-help-me-with-this-109471</link>
        <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>
        <link>http://www.enotes.com/jane-eyre/q-and-a/who-does-jane-know-that-might-fit-description-real-109879</link>
        <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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        <pubDate>Thu, 22 Oct 2009 09:18:12 PST</pubDate>
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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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        <title><![CDATA[In general, almost all of the main characters in Jane Eyre are lonely. ...]]></title>
        <link>http://www.enotes.com/jane-eyre/q-and-a/can-you-explain-theme-loneliness-jane-eyre-108651</link>
        <description><![CDATA[In general, almost all of the main characters in Jane Eyre are lonely.  How the characters respond to their need for human companionship is what causes the novel's conflicts.  Jane is obviously lonely because she has no one.  As a young girl, she loses everyone who was special to her through death or other cruel circumstances.  When Jane arrives at Thornfield, she is still lonely.  As a governess, she doesn't quite fit in with the rest of...]]></description>
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        <pubDate>Mon, 19 Oct 2009 18:42:48 PST</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[How does Bronte address the theme of loneliness in Jane Eyre especially...]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[How does Bronte address the theme of loneliness in Jane Eyre especially in the soliloquy in Chapter 4?]]></description>
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        <pubDate>Mon, 19 Oct 2009 14:13:59 PST</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[This chapter, as throughout the novel, is full of imagery and figurative...]]></title>
        <link>http://www.enotes.com/jane-eyre/q-and-a/what-sort-language-used-jane-eyre-chapter-25-106263</link>
        <description><![CDATA[This chapter, as throughout the novel, is full of imagery and figurative language. One exemplary moment is Jane's realization of the shattered chestnut tree:

“It stood up, black and riven: the trunk, split down the center, gasped ghastly. The cloven halves were not broken from each other, for the firm base and strong roots kept them unsundered below; though community of vitality was destroyed—the sap could flow no more: their great boughs...]]></description>
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        <pubDate>Sat, 10 Oct 2009 10:43:54 PST</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[I believe she is taking German lessons but is later asked to give them...]]></title>
        <link>http://www.enotes.com/jane-eyre/q-and-a/what-sort-language-used-jane-eyre-chapter-25-106263</link>
        <description><![CDATA[I believe she is taking German lessons but is later asked to give them up and learn Hindustani, the language St. John is studying in preparation for his missionary work.]]></description>
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        <pubDate>Fri, 9 Oct 2009 19:32:10 PST</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[What kind of language is used in Jane Eyre, chapter 25?
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        <link>http://www.enotes.com/jane-eyre/q-and-a/what-sort-language-used-jane-eyre-chapter-25-106263</link>
        <description><![CDATA[What kind of language is used in Jane Eyre, chapter 25?
 ]]></description>
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        <pubDate>Fri, 9 Oct 2009 04:10:02 PST</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[In a conversation in Volume I, Chapter VI of the novel, Jane and Helen...]]></title>
        <link>http://www.enotes.com/jane-eyre/q-and-a/what-janes-definition-view-goodness-what-helens-97859</link>
        <description><![CDATA[In a conversation in Volume I, Chapter VI of the novel, Jane and Helen reveal their divergent world views. Jane seems to view justice and love as the two greatest goods--she holds to the "eye for an eye" doctrine in human dealings. She explains to Helen that "it is natural that I should love those who show me affection," but also believes that "when we are struck at without a reason, we should strike back again very hard."
Helen, on the other...]]></description>
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        <pubDate>Tue, 6 Oct 2009 10:53:35 PST</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[The story of Cinderella in brief: her mother dies; father remarries and...]]></title>
        <link>http://www.enotes.com/jane-eyre/q-and-a/what-respect-does-janes-description-ingrams-105055</link>
        <description><![CDATA[The story of Cinderella in brief: her mother dies; father remarries and brings to household two daughters; stepmother and stepsisters mistreat her; father is either indifferent or malevolent (in some stories, such as the Disney movie, he dies as well). She performs all the household's menial tasks and must live and work among the ashes on the hearth.Cinderella is aided by a magical helper (most commonly a fairy godmother, but also magical...]]></description>
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        <pubDate>Mon, 5 Oct 2009 07:31:06 PST</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[I'm assuming that your assignment is to write some sort of compare and...]]></title>
        <link>http://www.enotes.com/jane-eyre/q-and-a/what-differences-between-jane-eyre-blanche-ingram-105033</link>
        <description><![CDATA[I'm assuming that your assignment is to write some sort of compare and contrast essay. Without seeing the actual prompt, I can't give you many hints for your thesis, but make sure it directly addresses the question asked in the prompt. Then, use the rest of your introduction to set up what you'll talk about in each of your body paragraphs. Your organization is up to you; however, you may want to focus on one trait in each paragraph and explain...]]></description>
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        <pubDate>Sun, 4 Oct 2009 10:54:25 PST</pubDate>
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