Jane Eyre - Page 4

sun-star · 08-10-2004, 11:49 AM

What a strange question

I don't think of it as a specifically English novel at all. A specifically Yorkshire novel maybe (is it set in Yorkshire? I know Charlotte Bronte was very proud of being a Yorkshirewoman, and liked to make her characters very Yorkshire - I'm thinking of Shirley in particular - so I might be just making an assumption.)

Obviously the setting and language would make it English, but what do you mean about the characters' situations and actions?

Rûdhaglarien · 08-10-2004, 05:02 PM

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Originally Posted by sun-star

What a strange question

I don't think of it as a specifically English novel at all. A specifically Yorkshire novel maybe (is it set in Yorkshire? I know Charlotte Bronte was very proud of being a Yorkshirewoman, and liked to make her characters very Yorkshire - I'm thinking of Shirley in particular - so I might be just making an assumption.)

Obviously the setting and language would make it English, but what do you mean about the characters' situations and actions?

What I mean about the characters is that English society constrains and dictates their actions to the situations around them. And that their situations are dictated by their society in the first place.

sun-star · 08-11-2004, 03:49 AM

Surely that would make it typical of the society where it is set, but not necessarily the country.

Rûdhaglarien · 08-12-2004, 10:41 PM

I know... but I've sort of taken liberty with the topic and am turning it into "an English novel from a distinct time period" because I can't really make it work any other way. (But maybe that's just because I'm dumb, or something.)

08-10-2004, 11:49 AM	#61
sun-star Lady of Letters Join Date: Jan 2002 Location: Either Oxford or Kent, England Posts: 2,476	What a strange question I don't think of it as a specifically English novel at all. A specifically Yorkshire novel maybe (is it set in Yorkshire? I know Charlotte Bronte was very proud of being a Yorkshirewoman, and liked to make her characters very Yorkshire - I'm thinking of Shirley in particular - so I might be just making an assumption.) Obviously the setting and language would make it English, but what do you mean about the characters' situations and actions? __________________ And all the time the waves, the waves, the waves Chase, intersect and flatten on the sand As they have done for centuries, as they will For centuries to come, when not a soul Is left to picnic on the blazing rocks, When England is not England, when mankind Has blown himself to pieces. Still the sea, Consolingly disastrous, will return While the strange starfish, hugely magnified, Waits in the jewelled basin of a pool.

08-11-2004, 03:49 AM	#63
sun-star Lady of Letters Join Date: Jan 2002 Location: Either Oxford or Kent, England Posts: 2,476	Surely that would make it typical of the society where it is set, but not necessarily the country. __________________ And all the time the waves, the waves, the waves Chase, intersect and flatten on the sand As they have done for centuries, as they will For centuries to come, when not a soul Is left to picnic on the blazing rocks, When England is not England, when mankind Has blown himself to pieces. Still the sea, Consolingly disastrous, will return While the strange starfish, hugely magnified, Waits in the jewelled basin of a pool.

08-12-2004, 10:41 PM	#64
Rûdhaglarien Elven Warrior Join Date: Aug 2002 Posts: 288	I know... but I've sort of taken liberty with the topic and am turning it into "an English novel from a distinct time period" because I can't really make it work any other way. (But maybe that's just because I'm dumb, or something.) __________________ I have a very expensive pen.