Jane Eyre as a Gothic Novel | English Literature
Jane Eyre as a Gothic Novel Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte utilizes the Gothic literary tradition (Jane Eyre as a Gothic Novel). This is literary tradition that originated in Germany and became very popular in England during the 18 th and 19 th centuries. Its purpose was to invoke a sense of fear, mystery, suspense and terror in the reader’s mind. It was Horace Walpole who first used the term “ Gothic ” as it appliesto literature. With the passage of time the gothic genre came to alnowledge various characteristics. Brontes’s Jane Eyre also contains certain traits of what came to known as a gothic novel. It was published in the year 1847, when gothic as a genre was at an upsurge in England. (Jane Eyre as a Gothic Novel) Jane Eyre makes many of the elements found in a gothic novel. The gothic peraphernalia is first presented in the novel in the ‘red room’ scene. Imegery is used to represent this room as horrified, terror like, dark and secret. Jane describes the room as having “curtain...