The buried stories of Thornfield Hall

numerous to be mentioned, and have frequently been analyzed by feminist criticism. - When they meet for the 1st time, R partakes in J's fantasy, comparing the ...
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Source: “Legacies of the Past: The Buried Stories of Thornfield Hall”, Laurence Talairach-Vielmas, Ellipses. - Br’s debt to eighteenth-century Gothic and her adaptation of stock devices is indeed most to be seen in the novel’s play on textual motifs, starting with the red-room. - The paper focuses on the dark aspects of the imprisoned female body, hence engages with Br’s narrative from the female Gothic perspective. - Gothic narratives are grounded on the patriarchal paradigm that the woman is motherless, defective, and defined by a male God. - When Jane comes back to Thornfield, she renders the discovery of the ruins through a necrophiliac comparison with a female corpse. - The builsing as a whole encapsulates 3 stories J must read to grasp the truth about her own femininity. - The fairy-tale references that pepper the narrative are far too numerous to be mentioned, and have frequently been analyzed by feminist criticism. - When they meet for the 1st time, R partakes in J’s fantasy, comparing the meeting to a fairy-tale. - R’s contribution to the creation of their romance in fairy-tale terms is very significant: in fact his frequent association of J with fairy creatures aims less at constructing her as a feminine ideal, celestial, otherworldly and morally superior, than at confining her in a plot where he plays the main part - 3 enigmatic stories: love story J/R, Adèle, Bertha.