ENGLISH 2K06 Lecture Notes - Plantocracy, Mary Prince, Moral Example
10 Nov 2012
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How to read status contradiction, and class hierarchy. Jane begins teaching a moorhouse, heavy gaping rustics . Class seems to come back as a marker of merit, despite her tendency to question it: after she has married rochester, she identifies that a solid english education has almost fixed adele"s french flaws. Class and foreignness: her cousin st. john river, uses religious diction to coalesce against her. To what extent can this novel be seen as an exposure of tyranny: rochester as a literal slave master part of the plantocracy how does this relate to mary prince. To what extent does the novel ultimate retreat to/conserve existing dominant notions of class and merit: the novel allows for passionate self fulfillment of the central protagonists, jane. &rochester, on term though, that do not upend social constructs. John reed, mrs. reed, brocklehurst all deposed, she finds her fortune and acceptance and becomes.
