Reference
A Patriarch of One’s own : Jane Eyre and
Romantic Love
Author: Jean Wyatt
Tulsa Studies in Women’s Literature 4:2(1985)199:216
There are two this paper’s theses:
“how can
we explain that woman widely separate in time and nationality share psychic
patterns that make them recognize in Jane Eyre hidden truths about their own
inner lives?” and “since girls often read Jane Eyre at a formative time in
their lives, what fantasies does it offer them?”
The background is this: “they rightly point
out that its imagery of enclosure and escape and its doubling of the female
self into the good girl Jane and the criminally passionate Bertha reflect the
experiences and corresponding psychic patterns of woman living under
patriarchy.”, or “students in Woman Literature classes, as well as female
colleagues a generation older, respond to Jane Eyre passionately, feel it has
something important to say about their own lives.”
1 comment:
I think that the thesis of the paper cannot be an interrogative sentence. I read the paper, but the sentences you chose as the thesis seem not to be the thesis statement. They are just the questions which the writer asks to readers of Jane Eyre.
The thesis statement that I found in this paper is:
My thesis is that the fantasy of romantic love is both powerful and regressive because it repeats structural features of a daughter's relationship to her father in a patriarchal nuclear family organization and so channels desire back into recreating the patterns of female subordination and dependency on a man that characterize the Western family.
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