Both Jane Eyre (1847) and Villette (1852) are narratives of psychological development that raise the moral question of the relation of woman’s self-transcendence to self-indulgence on the one hand and self-negation on the other. Jane Eyre and Villette, which deploy Romance and Gothicism, are narratives of Bildungsroman in which Jane Eyre and Lucy Snowe progress from dispossessed orphanhood to self-possession. While Jane’s narrative is framed in a language of resistance, expressiveness, liberty, transcendence and power through interlocking treatment of the themes of repetition in woman’s ordinary lives, Lucy’s narrative is framed in a language of self-denial and repression. I argue that Jane achieves transcendence by destroying the passionate other, Bertha while Lucy achieves transcendence by exorcising a nun (none) self that is created by repression. In Villette, the gothic drama of Lucy is set in a social context while in Jane Eyre, it depicts the psychological development of the heroine

Title

Bilal Tawfiq Hamamra

Publisher

Nizwa University

Publisher Country

Oman

Publication Type

Prtinted only

Volume

6

Year

2018

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