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No When we get to the end of jane eyre

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we find that surprise Surprise jane's get married to rochester

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though Is she just another in a long line of

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nineteenth century female protagonist waiting for her chance to head

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to the altar so she can finally become somebody's woman

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max white But to understand why we need to take

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on a slightly intimidating german word buildings roman well as

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you might recall from a previous unit a bildungsroman is

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a novel that charts a protagonist development from childhood to

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adulthood From innocents teo experience in most western literature building's

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romans tend to follow the trajectory of male characters because

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surely everyone can fully relate to what it's like to

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grow from a boy to a man with the exception

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of maybe fifty percent of the world's population but who's

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counting Welcome to do that walker Well even when novelist

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started focusing on female protagonist the female driven buildings roman

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was still a rarity Take virginia woolf mrs dalloway friend

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Sure the novel's very focused on mrs dalloway herself but

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since it takes place over the course of just one

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day he doesn't have the chance to go through any

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Sort of buildings roman style development from you to adulthood

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And if someone were to go through that kind of

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rapid development in one day well they should probably consult

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a doctor Things were different in jane eyre though which

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follows jane from her troubled childhood all the way to

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adulthood placing it firmly in buildings roman territory However what

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distinguishes jane's marriage from that of other nineteenth century female

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for agonist is not just that she's in a building

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drawn but also where she ends up at the conclusion

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of the story And no we don't mean a chapel

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that or not plenty of brides end up there in

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the nineteenth century Independent woman was basically an oxymoron A

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girl would start her life under the protection of her

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father until she got married subsequently falling under the protection

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of her husband Exactly a great rest Thirty four Freedom

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but it's not the trajectory Jane's story takes over the

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course of the novel Jane becomes spiritually physically and financially

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independent and equal mover husband instead of a mere possession

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though even though jane errands in a wedding it's not

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your typical nineteenth century female protagonist wedding Unfortunately taking place

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As it did in the nineteenth century d j couldn't

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