publication . Article . 2015

Jane Eyre fait de la résistance

Name: Jane Eyre fait de la résistance
Creator: Claire Bazin
Keywords: défense des droits, Jane Eyre, métamorphose, monologue intérieur, Mrs Reed, rébellion, renversement, Inner monologue, metamorphosis, reversal, vindication, rebellion, History of Great Britain, DA1-995, Literature and Literary Theory, Cultural Studies

Claire Bazin;

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Published: 12 Feb 2015

Publisher: Presses universitaires de la Méditerranée

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“Speak I must; I had been trodden on severely and must turn”. It is with these unspoken but no less eloquent words that Jane starts attacking her baffled aunt, who is not used to being addressed in this way by one who is usually obedient and silent. The scene, which follows the incarceration in the red room and Brocklehurst’s visit, can be read as a "Vindication of the rights of Jane” and also as both a metamorphosis and a reversal: Jane is out of herself and rebels against the enemy who gradually turns into a powerless child, ready to cry, unable to recognize this new Jane whom she vainly tries to propitiate. If Jane comes out victorious from this verbal confro...

doi: 10.4000/cve.1450

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free text keywords: défense des droits, Jane Eyre, métamorphose, monologue intérieur, Mrs Reed, rébellion, renversement, Inner monologue, metamorphosis, reversal, vindication, rebellion, History of Great Britain, DA1-995, Literature and Literary Theory, Cultural Studies, Philosophy, Internal monologue, Narrative, Aunt, Literature, business.industry, business

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