Jane Eyre’s Return to Rochester
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For serious readers of Jane Eyre it is a moot point why the eponymous heroine chooses to return to Rochester even though the cause of their separation is still supposed to exist. She is ignorant of Bertha's death when she starts toward Thornfield to see her lover. Their reunion might again raise the issue of bigamy that had made Jane flee Rochester. To understand this problem properly, it is advisable to posit two voices in the novel, those of the narrated and the narrating Jane. One voice stresses Jane's vital need for reciprocal love, a necessity that makes her life viable. It endorses her challenges both to the domineering stance of the privileged class and to the patriarchal social system impinging on female autonomy. The other voice romanticizes Jane's obedience to Rochester's summons and connives at her assimilation to the values associated with the class and gender of her “master.” Jane's return to Rochester provides the narrative structure with a site for dialogic interplay between the two voices, thus furnishing an example par excellence of Bakhtinian heteroglossia. And recognizing such discursive dialogism complicated by vocal hybridization affords the key to an understanding of the narrative section that includes Rochester's summons and Jane's yielding to it.
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For serious readers of Jane Eyre it is a moot point why the eponymous heroine chooses to return to Rochester even though the cause of their separation is still supposed to exist. She is ignorant of Bertha's death when she starts toward Thornfield to see her lover. Their reunion might again raise the issue of bigamy that had made Jane flee Rochester. To understand this problem properly, it is advisable to posit two voices in the novel, those of the narrated and the narrating Jane. One voice stresses Jane's vital need for reciprocal love, a necessity that makes her life viable. It endorses her challenges both to the domineering stance of the privileged class and to the patriarchal social system impinging on female autonomy. The other voice romanticizes Jane's obedience to Rochester's summons and connives at her assimilation to the values associated with the class and gender of her “master.” Jane's return to Rochester provides the narrative structure with a site for dialogic interplay between the two voices, thus furnishing an example par excellence of Bakhtinian heteroglossia. And recognizing such discursive dialogism complicated by vocal hybridization affords the key to an understanding of the narrative section that includes Rochester's summons and Jane's yielding to it.
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