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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

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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

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Susan Meyer: Rochester

Rochester 'compares his relationships with women to keeping slaves'

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Sandra Gilbert

Jane's terrible journey across the moors suggests the essential homelessness of women in a patriarchal society

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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

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Eric Solomon

Jane, fiery as she is, has sufficient control to water down these fires

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Sandra Gilbert and Susan Gubar

Conventional marriage is a Bridewell, a prison, like Bluebeard's corridor of the third storey

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Gayatri Spivak

Through Bertha Mason, Bronte renders the human/animal frontier as acceptably indeterminate

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Susan Meyer: Bertha

Bertha demonstrates an "odd ambiguity of race"- the narrative associates her with blacks, particularly the Jamaican antislavery rebels

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