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John Maynard
He drew a strong sexual connection between Jane's experience as a child, locked in Uncle Reed's bedroom, and as an adult entering Rochester's bedchamber
Adrienne Rich
Jane is determined in her refusal of the romantic- not immune and definitely more tempted than Jane Austen's characters, but Jane has an inner clarity which helps her distinguish between a future or destruction
Susan Meyer: Rochester
Rochester 'compares his relationships with women to keeping slaves'
Sandra Gilbert
Jane's terrible journey across the moors suggests the essential homelessness of women in a patriarchal society
Sally Shuttleworth
Bessie's nursery tales lie behind Jane's adult tendency to find the supernatural in the natural, as in her first encounter with Rochester's dog
Eric Solomon
Jane, fiery as she is, has sufficient control to water down these fires
Sandra Gilbert and Susan Gubar
Conventional marriage is a Bridewell, a prison, like Bluebeard's corridor of the third storey
Gayatri Spivak
Through Bertha Mason, Bronte renders the human/animal frontier as acceptably indeterminate
Susan Meyer: Bertha
Bertha demonstrates an "odd ambiguity of race"- the narrative associates her with blacks, particularly the Jamaican antislavery rebels
