Gateshead: The Beginning- Period 6 by Jennifer Wood https://padlet.com/jenniferawood/r9vrpcjc6u58sdfy Made with charm en-us 2022-02-22 14:03:00 UTC 2022-03-09 22:04:23 UTC hello@padlet.com Directions jenniferawood https://padlet.com/jenniferawood/r9vrpcjc6u58sdfy/wish/2060629622 Find your notes assignment for Chapters 1-10, Jane Eyre, Gateshead, within your Table Group (you can share them in google docs). Discuss and evaluate which aspects you would like to use a whole group to characterize the setting of Gateshead, the first stop on Jane's Journey. You may work alone, as a table, with a partner, etc. (NO MORE THAN 4 IN A GROUP)


1. Write out the Overall Title you want to give Gateshead- it should fit the tone, mood, theme... (consider a colonized title)
2. Write Key Motif/s and Thematic Subjects for Gateshead (Connections, Symbols, Patterns, Intertextuality, Aspects of Theory: Feminism, Economic/Marxist, Psychoanalytic...)
3. Write out excerpt/s that best captures Gateshead (if you see the one you chose on padlet, use another one). Include parenthetical citation
4. Write down at least 3 Tone/Attitude/Feeling words or phrases that best capture Gateshead
5. Find an artistic image online that best captures the tone/attitude/feeling and insert
6. Include your names]]> 2022-02-22 14:10:07 UTC https://padlet.com/jenniferawood/r9vrpcjc6u58sdfy/wish/2060629622 Link to Next Stop: Lowood jenniferawood https://padlet.com/jenniferawood/r9vrpcjc6u58sdfy/wish/2060660485 2022-02-22 14:24:56 UTC https://padlet.com/jenniferawood/r9vrpcjc6u58sdfy/wish/2060660485 An Unfit Home https://padlet.com/jenniferawood/r9vrpcjc6u58sdfy/wish/2061063323 Key Themes/Motifs:
The color red, religion, lies versus truth, feeling on belonging (and lack thereof), birds (in the book representing freedom), knowledge, Biblical intertextuality, lack of maternal relationships.

Excerpts:
“‘Master! How is he my master? Am I a servant?’ ‘No; you are less than a servant, for you do nothing for your keep. There, sit down, and think over your wickedness.” (7)

“‘How dare I, Mrs. Reed? How dare I? Because it is the truth. You think I have no feelings, and that I can do without one bit of love or kindness; but I cannot live so: and you have no pity.” (34)

Tone/Attitude/Feeling:
Trapped, Tense, Isolated

Madelynn N., Jewel N., Seth P., Katie P.
]]> 2022-02-22 17:39:20 UTC https://padlet.com/jenniferawood/r9vrpcjc6u58sdfy/wish/2061063323 One Step Forward, Two Steps Back by Anai Arteaga and Jimena Morones-Velazquez https://padlet.com/jenniferawood/r9vrpcjc6u58sdfy/wish/2061066227  
Key Motif(s)/ and Thematic Subjects: Oppression, Independence, Uncertainty, Imprisonment, Isolation, and Social Hierarchy.

Excerpt(s):
"You have no business to take our books; you are a dependent, mama says; you have no money; your father left you none; you ought to beg, and not to live here with gentlemen's children like us.” (Bronte 5)

Tone(s): Melancholy, Hapless, Dubious



]]> 2022-02-22 17:40:55 UTC https://padlet.com/jenniferawood/r9vrpcjc6u58sdfy/wish/2061066227 Ghosts, Scary Rooms, and Mean People: The Horror of Gateshead https://padlet.com/jenniferawood/r9vrpcjc6u58sdfy/wish/2061066949 Motifs: Reading/Ghosts/Temperature

Tone words: Accusatory, Resentment, Fearful

"My habitual mood of humiliation, self-doubt, forlorn depression, fell damp on the embers of my decaying ire. All said I was wicked, and perhaps I might be so; what
thought had I been but just conceiving of starving myself to death? That certainly was a crime: and was I fit to die? Or was the vault under the chancel of Gateshead Church an inviting bourne? In such vault I had been told did Mr. Reed lie buried" (Bronte 20)

I chose a haunted house as my image for Gateshead because not only is she fearful of her Uncle's ghost in the red room, she is also fearful of John Reed's abuse and the unfair punishments that come from his mother, Mrs. Reed.

Addison Phillips]]> 2022-02-22 17:41:20 UTC https://padlet.com/jenniferawood/r9vrpcjc6u58sdfy/wish/2061066949 The Little Bird is Caged gracedminnix https://padlet.com/jenniferawood/r9vrpcjc6u58sdfy/wish/2061070454
Isolation, Abuse, Imprisonment, Otherness, Estrangement

“You are a dependent, mama says; you have no money; your father left you none; you ought to beg, and not to live live here with gentlemen’s children like us” (Brontë pg. 3, par. 8). 

“All John Reed’s violent tyrannies, all his sisters’ proud indifference, all his mother’s aversion, all the servants’ partiality, turned up in my disturbed mind like a dark deposit in a turbid well. Why was I always suffering, always browbeaten, always accused, for ever condemned? Why could I never please? Why was it useless to try to win any one’s favour?” (Brontë pg. 6, par. 2)

Jane being ostracized, misunderstood, blamed, and made to feel small, feeling resentment, injustice

Gracie Minnix, Maeve McGeady, Matthew Wilson 


]]> 2022-02-22 17:43:14 UTC https://padlet.com/jenniferawood/r9vrpcjc6u58sdfy/wish/2061070454 Misery and Courage by Stella, Sarah, Brock https://padlet.com/jenniferawood/r9vrpcjc6u58sdfy/wish/2061077716 Motifs/Themes:
Jane is treated as if she is a bad child because she is female and is expected to be a certain way;
Weather is a big motif, it rains a lot. 
Color: Red room uses color to symbolize misery, death, and fear. 

 "I was a discord in Gateshead Hall: I was like nobody there; I had nothing in harmony with Mrs. Reed or her children, or her chosen vassalage. If they did not love me, in fact, as little did I love them. They were not bound to regard with affection a thing that could not sympathise with one amongst them...I know that had I been a sanguine, brilliant, careless, exacting, handsome, romping child—though equally dependent and friendless—Mrs. Reed would have endured my presence more complacently; her children would have entertained for me more of the cordiality of fellow-feeling; the servants would have been less prone to make me the scapegoat of the nursery." (Bronte 19)

Tone: Anguish, Red, Brave

]]> 2022-02-22 17:47:08 UTC https://padlet.com/jenniferawood/r9vrpcjc6u58sdfy/wish/2061077716 JANE EYRE- a Victorian Harry Potter https://padlet.com/jenniferawood/r9vrpcjc6u58sdfy/wish/2061104764 Motifs:
- Isolation - Throughout Gateshead Jane spends a lot of time in forced isolation, eventually leading to her to the red room, one of her most traumatic experiences of her life.
- Conflict - Before Jane's imprisonment in the red room, Jane experiences lots of conflict with her cousins. Primarily, her only male cousin, John. John flaunts about being inheriting his family's estate eventually leading to physical conflict.

"I am glad you are no relation of mine; I will never call you aunt again as long as I live; I will never come to see you when I am grown up; and if any one asks me how I like you, and how you treated me, I will say the very thought of you makes me sick, and that you treated me with miserable cruelty.” (40)

Tone: Despite her awful treatment, we see Jane persevere. This perseverance, and inability to give-up is a big theme in Jane Eyre. Another tone heavily used is curiosity. We see this especially in Gateshead as Jane reads her books far above her reading level. The final feeling that is featured in Gateshead is cruelty. Jane's treatment can only be described as cruel, and it's heavily featured.

By Joe (Chiller) Crosnoe, Veronica (Tree Hugger) Britton , Chris (Runner) Riley, William (Gamer) Benson

]]> 2022-02-22 18:01:52 UTC https://padlet.com/jenniferawood/r9vrpcjc6u58sdfy/wish/2061104764 The Estate of Persecution https://padlet.com/jenniferawood/r9vrpcjc6u58sdfy/wish/2061125146 Key Motifs/ Themes:
-Jane is routinely isolated both physically and mentally from the rest of the household and subjected to cruel and unusual punishment. 
-One tactic of bullying takes the form of shaming her on the basis of her class background. 
-literature and her imagination are her only reprieve from her torturous existence. 

“I felt an inexpressible relief, a soothing conviction of protection and security, when I knew that there was a stranger in the room, an individual not belonging to Gateshead, and not related to Mrs. Reed.”(Bronte, Chapter 3, page 23)

Tone:
-misery
-punishment
-isolation
-hopelessness

Ella Glass

]]> 2022-02-22 18:13:08 UTC https://padlet.com/jenniferawood/r9vrpcjc6u58sdfy/wish/2061125146 A‌ ‌Deary‌ ‌Afternoon‌ ‌at‌ ‌Gateshead‌ https://padlet.com/jenniferawood/r9vrpcjc6u58sdfy/wish/2061129240 Tone: Hostility,‌ ‌ Sadness,‌ ‌Anger

Motifs:
-Gender‌ ‌Inequality‌ ‌
-Bewick’s‌ ‌History‌ ‌of‌ ‌British‌ ‌Birds‌ ‌(Books in general)
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"There was no possibility of taking a walk that day. We had been wandering, indeed, in the leafless shrubbery an hour in the morning; but since dinner (Mrs. Reed, when there was no company, dined early) the cold winter wind had brought with it clouds so sombrero, and a rain so penetrating, that further outdoor exercise was now out of the question" (page number?????)

"I was glad of it: I never liked long walks, especially on chilly afternoons: dreadful to me was the coming home in the raw twilight, with nipped fingers and toes, and a heart saddened by the chidings of Bessie, the nurse, and humbled by the consciousness of my physical inferiority to Eliza, John, and Georgiana Reed"  (Bronte, pg 1) 

By Grace W and Peyton C]]> 2022-02-22 18:15:34 UTC https://padlet.com/jenniferawood/r9vrpcjc6u58sdfy/wish/2061129240 Gaslight, Gatekeep, Girlboss: A Gander at Gateshead https://padlet.com/jenniferawood/r9vrpcjc6u58sdfy/wish/2061136015 Key Motifs- Belonging, Home, Debts, Women, Books
Intertextual Connections - Cinderella, Beauty and the Beast
Charlotte Bronte’s own life.
Aspects of Theory- Feminism: John is shown an immense amount of leniency by Mrs. Reed on account of being her “darling boy”, an attitude which allows him to stay home from school, terrorize Jane without punishment, and later,  leech off of his family’s fortune. In contrast, Jane is treated like dirt because she is a woman in a time when she can only be a governess or a teacher and men control the family unit. Feminism + Economics.

Quintessential Excerpts: 
  1. “Afar, it offered a pale blank of mist and cloud; near a scene of wet lawn and storm-beat shrub, with ceaseless rain sweeping away wildly before a long and lamentable blast.” (pg. 2)
  2. “All John Reed’s violent tyrannies, all his sisters’ proud indifference, all his mother’s aversion, all the servants’ partiality, turned up in my disturbed mind like a dark deposit in a turbid well.” (pg. 9)
  3. “My habitual mood of humiliation, self-doubt, forlorn depression, fell damp on the embers of my decaying ire. All said I was wicked, and perhaps I might be so;” (pg. 11)
  4. “Yes, Mrs. Reed, to you I owe some fearful pangs of mental suffering, but I ought to forgive you, for you knew not what you did: while rending my heart-strings, you thought you were only uprooting my bad propensities.” (pg. 15)
  5. “How dare I, Mrs. Reed? How dare I? Because it is the truth. You think I have no feelings, and that I can do without one bit of love or kindness; but I cannot live so: and you have no pity.” (pg. 34)

Tone Words:  observant, conflicted, defensive

]]> 2022-02-22 18:19:12 UTC https://padlet.com/jenniferawood/r9vrpcjc6u58sdfy/wish/2061136015 Unwanted Intruders https://padlet.com/jenniferawood/r9vrpcjc6u58sdfy/wish/2071963007 Zoe Rabinowitz
Key Motifs: 
- Estrangement
- Sorrow
- Rain
- Unfair gender expectations

"...but that until she heard from Bessie, and could discover by her own observation, that I was endeavoring in good earnest to acquire a more sociable and childlike disposition, a more attractive and sprightly manner--something lighter, franker, more natural, as it were--she really must exclude me from privileges intended only for contented, happy, little children" (Bronte 14)

"I was a precocious actress in her eyes; she sincerely looked on me as a compound of virulent passions, mean spirit, and dangerous duplicity" (Bronte 38)

Tone: Mournful, repressed, lonely]]> 2022-03-01 17:37:56 UTC https://padlet.com/jenniferawood/r9vrpcjc6u58sdfy/wish/2071963007