Thesis: There is only one heroine in a story, and we typically become quite possessive of her. We champion her causes, mourn her losses, and cheer triumphantly her successesesis: The ideal woman was calm, quiet, and submissive. (Lorber4) There’s only room for one heroine in a story.
Background: From the first pages of the novel, Jane elicits sympathy. She is poor, plain and parentless.
Left in the ‘care,’ if one can call it that, of her Aunt,
Mrs. Reed, Jane is an outsider to her own family. At this stage, the reader wants nothing
more than to see Jane obtain a sense of family,
of belonging, of love.
Butler, Kristy. "lntertextual
Identities: The Crisis of Voice and Location in Jane Eyre andWide Sargasso Sea", Mary Immaculate College, University of
Limerick, (2013)1-22
2 comments:
I agree with this thesis.
Because the story is narrated by Jane. We tend to sympasize with her situation and wish for her fortune.
And I think the readers feel so because also Jane is at the lower position in the social community.
I agree with this idea.
I can find only one heroine in one story and I read the story in the view of the heroine further.
When something happy happens to the heroine, readers feel happy too and when something bad happens, we get sad with them.
Also, when I first started reading this novel, I wished that Jane could become happy with her lovers and family.
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