Fan Fiction and a scholar article published recently on Kindle:Jane Eyre (Annotated) Last Chapter
Simone Marx, Charlotte Brontë
If you love Jane Eyre, enjoy fan fiction and wish the last chapter went behind the closed door of the Rochesters' chamber, this annotated last chapter is for you.
Here I have inserted some 2,000 words after the 7th paragraph and tried to describe Jane Eyre's wedding night in a way that is sympathetic to the period and also to Charlotte Brontë's style.
Giving a Voice to the Unheard - The Power of the Narrators in Wide Sargasso Sea
Katja de Winter
For a long time, the world of literature has been dominated by male narrators, such as Rochester in Charlotte Brontë’s classic Jane Eyre, but many authors have felt the need to enable the mute female characters to speak for themselves and tried to give them a voice of their own. In an interview with Elizabeth Vreeland, Jean Rhys states that having read Jane Eyre, she pitied the character Bertha Mason and she said: ‘I thought I’d try to write her a life’. She did more than that, however.
By letting Bertha, or Antoinette, as she called the character in her book Wide Sargasso Sea, do much of the narrative work, she not only gave her a life, but a voice as well. The position of narrator is a very powerful one, and both Antoinette and Rochester try to use it for their purposes.
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