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Setting in ‘Jane Eyre’

Setting in ‘Jane Eyre’. 30 seconds - name as many place names that feature in the novel as you can. Learning Objective. Understand the significance of the five key settings in Jane Eyre (AO2). Write an essay on the importance of setting in ‘Jane Eyre’. Setting. Learning Check.

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Setting in ‘Jane Eyre’

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  1. Setting in ‘Jane Eyre’ 30 seconds - name as many place names that feature in the novel as you can.

  2. Learning Objective • Understand the significance of the five key settings in Jane Eyre (AO2). • Write an essay on the importance of setting in ‘Jane Eyre’.

  3. Setting

  4. Learning Check • 5 key settings in the novel. • 4 things you have to do to get top marks.

  5. Text Train • Move around the room and take notes on each of the five settings. Use the questions as prompts to help you.

  6. Gateshead • Jane’s childhood happens at Gateshead and ends when she reaches her ethical awakening with the red-room incident. • Notice the name, "Gateshead" – this place is her "gateway" or entrance to the rest of the world and the "head" or fount of all her problems (see term bildungsroman) • George P. Landow says of Jane’s Gateshead section that is is filled with, "passion, sensuality, emotion, superstition, and the other manifestations of the non-rational“.

  7. Investigating Gateshead • Re-read the passage in Chapter 1 from ‘A small breakfast-room’ (17) to ‘Henry Earl of Moreland’ (19). Makes notes on: • What we learn about Jane’s taste in reading. • What this tells you about her feelings about life at Gateshead.

  8. Lowood • Jane then moves on to her education at Lowood Institute until she wants to get out into the world and seek her fortune. • "Lowood" meaning "low wood," because that’s where the place is built (in a low valley beside a wood) but also because it’s a "low" time in her life.

  9. Investigating Lowood • Make notes on the atmosphere and physical privations of Lowood School. • How do Brocklehurst’s religious beliefs affect life at the school? • How does the narrative suggest that his influence on the school may be harmful? • What is the cause of Jane’s restlessness in Chapter 10? • What does it tell us about her character?

  10. Thornfield • At Thornfield, Jane finds mystery and temptation – a "field of thorns" with an almost allegorical or Biblical flavour. 

  11. Investigating Thornfield • When she first arrives at Thornfield, Jane is as restless as she was when she left Lowood • What are the causes of her restlessness? • Make a list of the supernatural aspects of Thornfield Hall • How do they affect the ways in which you read the story? • Search the text for details of the appearance of Thornfield House (106 / 107) • What picture of the house, both outside and inside, does this enable you to create? • Jane is often very happy at Thornfield, but sometimes she is less happy • Why should that be the case?

  12. Moor House • Jane endures a temporary banishment at Moor House and in the little town of Morton. • She discovers friends and relatives in unlikely places and recharges herself. • It’s no accident that she’s able to rest up for her final adventure "out on the moors," in the wilderness, which also has a religious flavour. 

  13. Investigating Moor House • List the arguments that St John uses to persuade Jane to agree to his suggestions (427). • What are the arguments that Jane uses against St John? (430) • What causes Jane to make her final decision?

  14. Ferndean • Finally, Jane experiences mature love at Ferndean when she returns to Rochester. • Jane can’t just go back to her naive young love after the experiences she’s had. • Thornfield has to be burned down once and for all and a new "ferny brae" or Eden-like paradise appears. • When she first arrives, she regards the wood around it as "thick and dark" and the house walls were "dark and green". Bronte writes it was "quite a desolate spot". •  As Rochester recovers, Jane’s descriptions of Ferndean change: “I described to him how brilliantly green they were; how the flowers and hedges looked refreshed; how sparklingly blue was the sky”

  15. Investigating Thornfield & Ferndean • Do you think it is necessary to the plot of the novel that Thornfield should be destroyed? • Give your reasons. • Note the details of the appearance of Ferndean (452-3) • In what ways is it an appropriate home for Jane and Rochester?

  16. Write • In what ways do the settings in the novel reflect Jane’s changing persona? Use the notes sheet you have completed in today’s session to support your response.

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