Monday, November 6, 2017
Does Jane Eyre Feel More Like An Autobiography?
I was listening to Jane Eyre In Our Time on BBC 4 and the two radio hosts were talking about the ties to Bronte's life to how she wrote Jane. The gentleman made the point of you should write what you know and the lady agrees. Foster talks about this a bit of well in his book, but I feel like this is just a bit of fiction. Does Bronte really just write what she knows or was it all just a fantasy with real life connections?
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I think that many of the events and places are similar to Charlotte Bronte's life and events that took place there. Bronte's dad Patrick, owned a school and was similar to Lowood. The podcast talkers also mentioned that Bronte had her own Brocklehurst. We can also see that Bronte was in love with her professor and how Jane was in love with Mr. Rochester are similar. We also see how Bronte had depression and dark thoughts just like Jane does. So I think it was real life connections.
ReplyDeleteI believe Bronte took most of her inspiration from her own life, hence the similarities. She took her experiences and made them more interesting, or at least tried, and then shaped them in the form of Jane Eyre. So it was fantasy with a basis of truth.
ReplyDeleteIn the podcast, "Charlotte Bronte at 200: stories inspired by Jane Eyre" they say that usually when people write books, their first book is the autobiography. Bronte's first book was denied by publishers and it was about a professor that falls in love with a student, which is very similar to how Bronte when to school to learn German and French and ended up marrying her professor. This can also be related to Jane Eyre, though. Jane Eyre falls in love with her master even though she knows that she shouldn't have. Jane's feeling could be Bronte's also. I believe that since Bronte's first book was shot down, she decided to rewrite it and create Jane Eyre to tell her story.
ReplyDeleteI think this book is a autobiography for sure. Especially from listening to the podcast. They talked a lot in the podcast about how it is basically a autobiography. I also agree with everything they said in the podcast. Just from the school she went to and how terrible it was to Brocklehurst and his whole story. So I for sure agree that it is a autobiography.
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