『ジェイン・エア』の言語文化的環境 : 19世紀イングランドにおける女をめぐる抑圧の諸形式
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Charlotte Bronte's Jane Eyre (1847) is surrounded with three kinds of discourses: the medical, educational and social documents in the Victorian England. The medical discourse gives pseudoscientific definitions to the gender roles in the period. The educational discourse inculcates Christian authority into pupils' minds in the form of catechism. The social discourse offers ideal behaviours to the middle-class women through the medium of conduct books. These three discourses support the macropolitics which oppresses and exploits the Victorian women. I have discussed how Jane and potentially women in general are suppressed in Jane Eyre in connection with the three kinds of discourses. I have also discussed how Jane resisted the pressures by sustaining her strong wish to realize her independence and her yearning to be loved by some cordial friends. I have specified that Jane generally retains her character throughout the novel, but Rochester radically changes his character from that of the Byronic hero to the realistic middle-class country landowner. Jane strengthens the two attributes of her character - the inclinations to self-reliance and wholehearted love - as she overcomes various kinds of hardships. Rochester, in sharp contrast to Jane's steadfastness, fluctuates between a frivolous squanderer and a faithful husband. As Jane's mentality is overlapped with that of Bertha, a half- Jamaican madwoman in the attic, Jane's predicament and that of Bertha originate from the same cause: the English triangular trade and the middle-class worship of money. The destruction of Thornfield Hall by Bertha connotes the inevitable disaster caused by the English colonialism. Rochester, a victim and also a beneficiary of colonialism, expiates his sin with the loss of his left arm and eyesight, and in doing so acquires a nuclear family.
- 奈良教育大学の論文
- 2001-10-00
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