Jane Eyre Critics: youth and age

2006 TV (Susanna White director)

shows Adéle performing her inappropriate song using bed for stage implying that mother strongly influences character of child

Terry Eagleton (1975, Marxist perspective)

“The novel dramatises a society in which almost all human relations are power struggles”

Terry Eagleton (1975)

part of the novel focuses on “habits of piety, submission, tradition, conservatism”

Sally Shuttleworth (1996)

“Jane’s celebration [of Adéle becoming ’docile] places her worryingly close to the position of the detested Mrs Reed, whose social status she has now assumed”

Mary Poovey (1989)

“Brontë emphasises the likeness between women”

Peter Allan Dale (1986)

“We expect the heroine must eventually find some proper and permanent home”