A new publication by the Tokyo Metropolitan University Graduate School of Humanities:
Humanities Journal, 521-13 p20 (2025)
Focusing on 'Rochester's fairy naming' (Gouker 175) in Charlotte Brontë's Jane Eyre, Gouker notes that he calls Jane a witch twice and opines that 'this signifier for contemporary readers was surely more shocking' (176). If we include Rochester's allusion to a witch embedded in Jane's narrative, he calls her a witch three times throughout Jane Eyre. When Jane pours water over his bed, Rochester, says, 'What have you done with me, witch, sorceress'?' (C. Brontë, Jane Eyre 148).' Subsequently, during the engagement period, as Jane asks Rochester to sing for her, she narrates that he says she is 'a capricious witch' (271). In addition, when she recounts what she feels upon finding a gorgeous wedding veil, he says, 'How well you read me, you witch!' (...)
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