https://padlet.com/cfratt5647/4cw5hlf1l01g Made with a creative frenzy en-us 2017-11-02 19:52:57 UTC 2025-11-11 02:57:19 UTC hello@padlet.com https://padlet-assets.s3.amazonaws.com/icons/Xmastree.png cfratt5647 https://padlet.com/cfratt5647/4cw5hlf1l01g/wish/203102384 In Brontë’s novel, Jane Eyre, she uses religious doctrine to illustrate men’s dominance over women, which has been rightly justified due to the fact that people always look at others to blame for their own actions.]]> 2017-11-02 19:55:56 UTC https://padlet.com/cfratt5647/4cw5hlf1l01g/wish/203102384 cfratt5647 https://padlet.com/cfratt5647/4cw5hlf1l01g/wish/203404009 “Women might never vote, but they might teach, bear, and raise a subset of the working class male voter; they needed to be kept in their places and to education the next generation of their peers to do the same.”(Dooley, 122)]]> 2017-11-03 17:29:18 UTC https://padlet.com/cfratt5647/4cw5hlf1l01g/wish/203404009 cfratt5647 https://padlet.com/cfratt5647/4cw5hlf1l01g/wish/203405727 “Jane meets and begins her relationship with Rochester in the proverbial thorny field, and returns to him in a green-forested world...” (Dooley, 122]]> 2017-11-03 17:33:07 UTC https://padlet.com/cfratt5647/4cw5hlf1l01g/wish/203405727 cfratt5647 https://padlet.com/cfratt5647/4cw5hlf1l01g/wish/203407319 “Her marriage to a largely blind and maimed reverses the typical dependencies of women upon men in marriage and in the larger society” (Dooley, 122)]]> 2017-11-03 17:36:24 UTC https://padlet.com/cfratt5647/4cw5hlf1l01g/wish/203407319 cfratt5647 https://padlet.com/cfratt5647/4cw5hlf1l01g/wish/203414749 “...- all give Brontë an opportunity to explore the uses and abuses of religious belief and its pious applications in the everyday life of many classes of people” (Dooley, 124)]]> 2017-11-03 17:51:32 UTC https://padlet.com/cfratt5647/4cw5hlf1l01g/wish/203414749 cfratt5647 https://padlet.com/cfratt5647/4cw5hlf1l01g/wish/203416950 “The Bible is cited to threaten, justify corporal and psychological punishment, and extinguish any flicker of self-affirmation and independence.” (Dooley, 124)]]> 2017-11-03 17:55:54 UTC https://padlet.com/cfratt5647/4cw5hlf1l01g/wish/203416950 cfratt5647 https://padlet.com/cfratt5647/4cw5hlf1l01g/wish/203691259 “her awareness of her own and other women’s oppression as well as her increasing strength to resist feminine submission.” (Waxman, 244)]]> 2017-11-05 22:08:33 UTC https://padlet.com/cfratt5647/4cw5hlf1l01g/wish/203691259 cfratt5647 https://padlet.com/cfratt5647/4cw5hlf1l01g/wish/203691713 “Now, I see the traditional gender roles at Gateshead and their unfairness to Jane. No wonder she rebels- against both sexism and classism.” (Waxman, 248)]]> 2017-11-05 22:13:25 UTC https://padlet.com/cfratt5647/4cw5hlf1l01g/wish/203691713 cfratt5647 https://padlet.com/cfratt5647/4cw5hlf1l01g/wish/203692468 “‘If people were always kind and obedient to those who are cruel and unjust, the wicked people would have it all their own way’(69). To resist injustice and tyranny is, in Jane’s view, a way to improve the world: a good feminist principle.” (Waxman, 249)]]> 2017-11-05 22:20:07 UTC https://padlet.com/cfratt5647/4cw5hlf1l01g/wish/203692468 cfratt5647 https://padlet.com/cfratt5647/4cw5hlf1l01g/wish/203693022 “She affirms the equal humanity of women and men, the similarities in their intense feelings, ambitions, and complex intellectual faculties: women yearn for a role and purpose beyond a kind of robotic, gender-role-performance .” (Waxman, 252)]]> 2017-11-05 22:24:55 UTC https://padlet.com/cfratt5647/4cw5hlf1l01g/wish/203693022 cfratt5647 https://padlet.com/cfratt5647/4cw5hlf1l01g/wish/203695009 "The feminist cri de coeur (this means passionate appeal, complaint, or protest) is Jane's parting declaration: I care for myself... I will respect myself.'" (Waxman, 256)]]> 2017-11-05 22:44:00 UTC https://padlet.com/cfratt5647/4cw5hlf1l01g/wish/203695009 cfratt5647 https://padlet.com/cfratt5647/4cw5hlf1l01g/wish/203696471 "In Jane Eyre, Brontre responds to the seemingly inevitable analogy in the nineteenth-century British texts that compares white women with blacks in order to degrade both groups and assert the need for white male control." (Meyer, 248)]]> 2017-11-05 22:57:22 UTC https://padlet.com/cfratt5647/4cw5hlf1l01g/wish/203696471 cfratt5647 https://padlet.com/cfratt5647/4cw5hlf1l01g/wish/203696803 "Jane brings herself to 'mutiny' and becomes a 'rebel slave' in her tenth year, like Bertha who after ten years in her third floor room 'breaks out, now in fire and now in blood'". (Meyer, 251)]]> 2017-11-05 23:00:29 UTC https://padlet.com/cfratt5647/4cw5hlf1l01g/wish/203696803 cfratt5647 https://padlet.com/cfratt5647/4cw5hlf1l01g/wish/203696899 "Instead of deciding that it is her vocation to enter this new environment of plague, 'dark races,' and hierarchical oppression, Jane feels 'called' to return to a house which, being larger and more stained by oppression, will be more difficult to 'clean down'-- Rochester's Thornfield." (Meyer, 254)]]> 2017-11-05 23:01:03 UTC https://padlet.com/cfratt5647/4cw5hlf1l01g/wish/203696899 cfratt5647 https://padlet.com/cfratt5647/4cw5hlf1l01g/wish/203696932 "This part of the novel is rich in images of Turkish and Persian despots, sultans who reward thair favorite slaves with jewels, Indian wives forced to die in 'suttee', and women enslaved in Eastern harems." (Meyer, 253)]]> 2017-11-05 23:01:29 UTC https://padlet.com/cfratt5647/4cw5hlf1l01g/wish/203696932 cfratt5647 https://padlet.com/cfratt5647/4cw5hlf1l01g/wish/203696981 "As in her early African Tales, Bronte does not use slavery as an analogy for the lot of the working class but for that of the lower-middle class, for those who are forced into 'governessing slavery' as Rochester puts it" (Meyer, 251)]]> 2017-11-05 23:02:04 UTC https://padlet.com/cfratt5647/4cw5hlf1l01g/wish/203696981 cfratt5647 https://padlet.com/cfratt5647/4cw5hlf1l01g/wish/204110841 “Since St. John’s religious agenda serves only as a vehicle of masculine self-aggrandizement and domination, Jane ultimately rejects his  ‘patriarchal religious value-system’ for an earthly paradise of marital equality with the reformed and chastened Rochester.” (Lamonaca, 245)]]> 2017-11-06 20:26:25 UTC https://padlet.com/cfratt5647/4cw5hlf1l01g/wish/204110841 cfratt5647 https://padlet.com/cfratt5647/4cw5hlf1l01g/wish/204113554 “Certainly, Jane’s insistence upon her spiritual and moral integrity enables a stinging critique of society’s expectations for women. Jane’s religious convictions are presented as the primary force behind her resistance to conventional female subject-positions” (Lamonaca, 245)]]> 2017-11-06 20:32:46 UTC https://padlet.com/cfratt5647/4cw5hlf1l01g/wish/204113554 cfratt5647 https://padlet.com/cfratt5647/4cw5hlf1l01g/wish/204116507 “—is a belief in a more benign and loving Creator, a Creator closer to Helen Burns’s mercieful Father than to St. John’s vengeful deity. This notion of a gentle, loving Creator seems much more conducive to a ‘religion of the heart’ than masculine visions of an angry, unapproachable Lawgiver.” (Lamonaca, 247)]]> 2017-11-06 20:39:23 UTC https://padlet.com/cfratt5647/4cw5hlf1l01g/wish/204116507 cfratt5647 https://padlet.com/cfratt5647/4cw5hlf1l01g/wish/204119826 “Discerning God’s will through seemingly direct contact with supernatural, Jane demonstrates that women— true to one facet of evangelical doctrine- must experience God directly, ‘through the heart,’ despite Evangelical models of femininity and gender which, paradoxically, denied women this very possibility.” (Lamonaca, 248]]> 2017-11-06 20:47:54 UTC https://padlet.com/cfratt5647/4cw5hlf1l01g/wish/204119826 cfratt5647 https://padlet.com/cfratt5647/4cw5hlf1l01g/wish/204121752 “Jane’s suffering is not like Helen Burns’s passive endurance of persecution (a mode of suffering typically associated with the feminine), however, but rather an active (masculine, heroic) decision to renounce, however painful, the thing she most ardently desires— Rochester’s love which stands between Jane and her ‘hope of heaven’.” (Lamonaca, 249)]]> 2017-11-06 20:52:56 UTC https://padlet.com/cfratt5647/4cw5hlf1l01g/wish/204121752 cfratt5647 https://padlet.com/cfratt5647/4cw5hlf1l01g/wish/205504703 2017-11-09 20:49:34 UTC https://padlet.com/cfratt5647/4cw5hlf1l01g/wish/205504703 cfratt5647 https://padlet.com/cfratt5647/4cw5hlf1l01g/wish/205505145 2017-11-09 20:51:04 UTC https://padlet.com/cfratt5647/4cw5hlf1l01g/wish/205505145 cfratt5647 https://padlet.com/cfratt5647/4cw5hlf1l01g/wish/205505932 2017-11-09 20:53:34 UTC https://padlet.com/cfratt5647/4cw5hlf1l01g/wish/205505932 cfratt5647 https://padlet.com/cfratt5647/4cw5hlf1l01g/wish/205506279 2017-11-09 20:54:47 UTC https://padlet.com/cfratt5647/4cw5hlf1l01g/wish/205506279 cfratt5647 https://padlet.com/cfratt5647/4cw5hlf1l01g/wish/205828601 “Women are supposed to be very calm generally: but women feel just as men feel; they need exercise for their faculties, and a field for their efforts, as much as their brothers do; they suffer from too rigid a restraint, too absolute a stagnation, precisely as men would suffer; and it is narrow-minded in their more privileged fellow-creatures to say that they ought to confine themselves to making puddings and knitting stockings, to playing on the piano and embroidering bags.  It is thoughtless to condemn them, or laugh at them, if they seek to do more or learn more than custom has pronounced necessary for their sex.” (Brontë, 233)]]> 2017-11-10 20:53:20 UTC https://padlet.com/cfratt5647/4cw5hlf1l01g/wish/205828601 cfratt5647 https://padlet.com/cfratt5647/4cw5hlf1l01g/wish/205829538 “Do you think I can stay to become nothing to you?  Do you think I am an automaton?—a machine without feelings? and can bear to have my morsel of bread snatched from my lips, and my drop of living water dashed from my cup?  Do you think, because I am poor, obscure, plain, and little, I am soulless and heartless?  You think wrong!—I have as much soul as you,—and full as much heart!” (Brontë, 536)

]]> 2017-11-10 20:58:30 UTC https://padlet.com/cfratt5647/4cw5hlf1l01g/wish/205829538 cfratt5647 https://padlet.com/cfratt5647/4cw5hlf1l01g/wish/205830487 “I am no bird; and no net ensnares me; I am a free human being with an independent will, which I now exert to leave you.” (Brontë, 537)

]]> 2017-11-10 21:04:39 UTC https://padlet.com/cfratt5647/4cw5hlf1l01g/wish/205830487 cfratt5647 https://padlet.com/cfratt5647/4cw5hlf1l01g/wish/205831941 “I would always rather be happy than dignified” (Brontë, 870)]]> 2017-11-10 21:14:18 UTC https://padlet.com/cfratt5647/4cw5hlf1l01g/wish/205831941 cfratt5647 https://padlet.com/cfratt5647/4cw5hlf1l01g/wish/207876610 “the role of women as ‘both the inheritors and makers of their own religious cultures’ (p. 2): as active in their reception and interpretation of religious discourses” (Twells)]]> 2017-11-16 19:51:23 UTC https://padlet.com/cfratt5647/4cw5hlf1l01g/wish/207876610