about feminism

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Melda Cahara
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2.  The first is her attitude toward Mr. Rochester's
attempts to lavish her with jewels and expensive
garments for her wedding. In fact, she says that
"the more he bought me, the more my cheek
burned with a sense of annoyance and
degradation" (Bronte 236). Her unwillingness to be
objectified is the strongest indication that she does
not define herself by two of the "marriageability"
components previously discussed: economic
status and beauty.

3.  In fact, Jane's relationship with Mr. Rochester is a constant
struggle for her to maintain her own individual identity
(Eagleton 493-494). In other words, she plays the role of
servant yet makes it perfectly clear to him that she does not
consider herself below him in terms of spiritual qualities.
She insists to him that she is more than her social status,
saying, "Do you think, because I am poor, obscure, plain,
and little, I am soulless and heartless? You think wrong! I
have as much soul as you--and full as much heart! And if
God had gifted me with some beauty and much wealth, I
should have made it as hard for you to leave me, as it is
now for me to leave you" (Bronte 222). When Mr.
Rochester refers to her as his equal and likeness, it
appears that Jane has made headway in asserting her
equality with the master.

4. Contrast with the fact

5.  “I was sitting near the fireplace. The bed rose
before me; to my right there was a high dark
wardrobe, to my left the curtain windows. A large
mirror reflected the vacant grandeur of the room”.
(page 12).
 Jane tinggal dirumah yang megah, dan rumah
yang megah biasanya menunjukan kenyamanan.

6.  “If Mr. Reed had been alive; I knew that he
would have treated me kindly. I could not
remember him; but I knew that he was my
mother’s brother, and that he had taken me
into his house when I was left an orphan”.
(page 13).
 Quote tersebut menunjukan bahwa Jane
tidak bahagia berada di rumah tersebut.

7.  “ I looked round the bleak garden and then
up at the house, a large building, half of
which looked grey and old, the other half
quite new. The new part, containing the main
school-room and dormitory was lit by latticed
windows which gave it the aspect of a church.
A stone over the door had the inscription”
(page34).

8.  “The food that was now served was scarcely
more appetizing than our breakfast. From
two huge tin pots a steam arose, smelling of
rancid fat, and from these we were served
portions that consisted of potatoes and
pieces of strange rusty meat, mixed and
cooked together. I ate what I could and
wondered if everyday will be the same” (page
37)

9.  Lesbian theory is clearly allied with feminism
in its concern about the suppression of
women. But it sees heterosexuality as a norm
which helps maintain a patriarchal social
sistem.

10.  Miss Temple regarded me a few minutes in silence;
she then said - "I know something of Mr. Lloyd; I
shall write to him; if his reply agrees with your
statement, you shall be publicly cleared from every
imputation; to me, Jane, you are clear now." She
kissed me, and still keeping me at her side (where I
was well contented to stand, for I derived a child's
pleasure from the contemplation of her face, her dress,
her one or two ornaments, her white forehead, her
clustered and shining curls, and beaming dark eyes),
she proceeded to address Helen Burns.
 -JANE EYRE, chapter 8, p. 44

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