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Sure, Jane Eyre ends in a marriage, but believe it our not, our heroine is pretty independent. Not every lady gets her own Bildungsroman.
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No When we get to the end of jane eyre
- 00:04
we find that surprise Surprise jane's get married to rochester
- 00:09
though Is she just another in a long line of
- 00:11
nineteenth century female protagonist waiting for her chance to head
- 00:14
to the altar so she can finally become somebody's woman
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- 00:19
max white But to understand why we need to take
- 00:22
on a slightly intimidating german word buildings roman well as
- 00:27
you might recall from a previous unit a bildungsroman is
- 00:30
a novel that charts a protagonist development from childhood to
- 00:34
adulthood From innocents teo experience in most western literature building's
- 00:40
romans tend to follow the trajectory of male characters because
- 00:44
surely everyone can fully relate to what it's like to
- 00:46
grow from a boy to a man with the exception
- 00:49
of maybe fifty percent of the world's population but who's
- 00:53
counting Welcome to do that walker Well even when novelist
- 00:57
started focusing on female protagonist the female driven buildings roman
- 01:01
was still a rarity Take virginia woolf mrs dalloway friend
- 01:05
Sure the novel's very focused on mrs dalloway herself but
- 01:08
since it takes place over the course of just one
- 01:10
day he doesn't have the chance to go through any
- 01:13
Sort of buildings roman style development from you to adulthood
- 01:17
And if someone were to go through that kind of
- 01:19
rapid development in one day well they should probably consult
- 01:22
a doctor Things were different in jane eyre though which
- 01:24
follows jane from her troubled childhood all the way to
- 01:28
adulthood placing it firmly in buildings roman territory However what
- 01:32
distinguishes jane's marriage from that of other nineteenth century female
- 01:35
for agonist is not just that she's in a building
- 01:38
drawn but also where she ends up at the conclusion
- 01:42
of the story And no we don't mean a chapel
- 01:45
that or not plenty of brides end up there in
- 01:47
the nineteenth century Independent woman was basically an oxymoron A
- 01:51
girl would start her life under the protection of her
- 01:53
father until she got married subsequently falling under the protection
- 01:57
of her husband Exactly a great rest Thirty four Freedom
- 02:01
but it's not the trajectory Jane's story takes over the
- 02:04
course of the novel Jane becomes spiritually physically and financially
- 02:08
independent and equal mover husband instead of a mere possession
- 02:13
though even though jane errands in a wedding it's not
- 02:15
your typical nineteenth century female protagonist wedding Unfortunately taking place
- 02:20
As it did in the nineteenth century d j couldn't
- 02:23
play independent woman by destiny's child But you can't have 00:02:27.58 --> [endTime] every shmoop
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