ENGL 3Q95 Lecture Notes - Lecture 12: Bertha Mason, Jean Rhys, Chaise
27 Oct 2016
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Engl 3q95 jane eyre october 26, 2016: charlotte bronte (1816-1855) was one of the three bronte sisters. She went by the pen name bell currer. 1846 charlotte, emily and anne self-financed the publication of a joint collection of poems under their assumed names currer, ellis and acton bell. The pseudonyms veiled the sisters" gender while preserving their initials; thus. Charlotte was currer bell. (to give them legitimacy as writers) Naming the title the main name of her name: Jane doe very generic and simple and plain. There is no real ariel-caliban polarity: both are slaves in the hands of prospero, the foreign magician. Caliban is the rude and unconquerable master of the island, while ariel, a creature of the air, although also a child of the isle, is the intellectual. Space can define agency of a woman, bertha trapped in her room forever.
