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Judith Leggatt, Christopher Parkes
From the Red Room to Rochester's Haircut: Mind Control in Jane Eyre
ESC: English Studies in Canada - Volume 32, Issue 4, December 2006, pp. 169-188
The control of the imagination is at stake in Charlotte Brontë's Jane Eyre. Throughout the novel, Jane comes under the power of people and institutions that want to break her spirit. While tyrants such as Aunt Reed, Brocklehurst, Rochester, and St John Rivers want to turn Jane into a personal servant, Lowood Institution wants to turn her into a servant of the wage labour economy. In response to these attempts to control her, Jane's romantic visions of an open untamed landscape, such as the moors, allow her to escape the feeling of being enclosed and commodified. The central dilemma of Jane's struggle is whether or not she can enter into society on terms that will...
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This scholar publication appeared some months ago:
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