4 - Colonialism and Jane Eyre

The final little talk in the Jane Eyre sequence, this one gives a brief history of colonialism and then ties this theme in with some of the characters and events in the novel. The principal areas it looks at are the Caribbean, with its associations with the slave trade on the one hand and Bertha Mason on the other, and India, with its central position in the history of the British Empire, and its link to the novel through St. John Rivers and his missionary ambitions.

[kyle]

Thanks for your analysis! I think Jane Eyre can be considered as an ice mountain whose upper part is superficially about a story of an independent female who has managed to build a mutually respecting relationship with Rochester, while the dark secrets under the water are hard to detect. As for me, I used to wonder why Bertha tried to hurt Rochester for several times and why she doesn’t has any conversations at all, now I realized that she might be stigmatized and silenced considering that all of her description is from Rochester who might be the oppressor and a symbol of that age of systemic oppression.

[amnaahmed]

هل تقصد رواية جين اير لشارلوت برونتي ؟؟ لم افهم العلاقة بين الرواية و الاستعمار .. الرواية ركزت علي ان الحب يفوز على التقسيمات الطبقية .. و المستعمرات ذكرت عرضياً

[Shedoinstuff]

sir, you're very good at this I really enjoy learning and watching your videos this is for an appreciation of your hard work thank you for teaching us
also, can you make videos of English lit.