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GATE 2021 XH2 – Question 43

History of English Literature and Literary Studies · English Literary Traditions across Time: Chaucer to contemporary English literature · 1 mark · Multiple select

Which statements about Charlotte Brontë’s Jane Eyre are true?

  1. It appeared under the pen name Currer Bell.
  2. It was originally published in three volumes.
  3. It has been read as a critique of heterosexual romance,marriage and domesticity.
  4. Its story is told from the viewpoint of a “madwoman in the attic”.

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Correct answer: (A) It appeared under the pen name Currer Bell.; (B) It was originally published in three volumes.; (C) It has been read as a critique of heterosexual romance,marriage and domesticity.

Explanation

A and B identify its original publication. C recognises a critical reading of the novel’s treatment of women, marriage and autonomy. The narrator is Jane, not Bertha Mason, so D is false. Select A,B,C; the existence of such a critical reading does not imply that all readers interpret its ending identically.

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