EEvery second a human spends reading or watching television ingrains a new ideology into their thoughts and actions. In modern literature a book is not complete without some kind of a romantic plotline twisted in; movie producers feel the need to add romance to appeal to more audiences even if romance is unnecessary, and television series can hardly function without a steamy romance or love triangle. With a large portion of the population dependent on their phones and televisions, the ideals of other people are shoved constantly into everyone’s minds whether or not they realize it. Charlotte Brontë fell prey to this just as many authors since her have. Her novel Jane Eyre has been subject to many comparisons to old folk tales such as “Bluebeard”
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Much of Jane Eyre has been compared by many critics to the old tale of “Bluebeard” with a twist that completely eradicates the message that “Bluebeard” was used to teach. Most critics can agree that the “Bluebeard” tale was meant to warn young women about the dangers of mysterious men. This story and its message has been twisted and perverted in so many ways over time that many people no longer remember that message. Jane Eyre is among the original perversions of the impactful tale of “Bluebeard. Since its publication countless criticisms have been written to draw connections between Bluebeard” and Jane Eyre; and in essence they are almost the same story: “Summarizing the plot of Jane Eyre, one notices the similarities to ‘Bluebeard’: an older man in search of a new companion, his hints at a secret plaguing his house, a wife incarcerated in a secret chamber of whose existence no one may know about, the heroine’s last minute escape, to name a few of the most obvious” (Pyrhonen 5). They differ in one very important way however. Brontë’s heroine marries her Bluebeard and lives happily ever after whereas the heroine of “Bluebeard” remarries after Bluebeard’s death to find happiness’ otherwise, Brontë has simply written a Victorian version of “Bluebeard”. [Paragraph?]Many comparisons can be drawn between the two stories, notably how both heroines are rescued by family. In “Bluebeard” the heroine’s brothers rush in and stab her terrible husband: “... two officers, dressed in their uniform, came in, and, with their swords in their hands, ran straight to Blue Beard, who, seeing they were his wife’s brothers, tried to escape from their presence; but they pursued and seized him before he had gone twenty steps, and plunging their swords into his body he fell down dead at their feet” (“Bluebeard”). The heroine, desperate for rescuing, had
Much of Jane Eyre has been compared by many critics to the old tale of “Bluebeard” with a twist that completely eradicates the message that “Bluebeard” was used to teach. Most critics can agree that the “Bluebeard” tale was meant to warn young women about the dangers of mysterious men. This story and its message has been twisted and perverted in so many ways over time that many people no longer remember that message. Jane Eyre is among the original perversions of the impactful tale of “Bluebeard. Since its publication countless criticisms have been written to draw connections between Bluebeard” and Jane Eyre; and in essence they are almost the same story: “Summarizing the plot of Jane Eyre, one notices the similarities to ‘Bluebeard’: an older man in search of a new companion, his hints at a secret plaguing his house, a wife incarcerated in a secret chamber of whose existence no one may know about, the heroine’s last minute escape, to name a few of the most obvious” (Pyrhonen 5). They differ in one very important way however. Brontë’s heroine marries her Bluebeard and lives happily ever after whereas the heroine of “Bluebeard” remarries after Bluebeard’s death to find happiness’ otherwise, Brontë has simply written a Victorian version of “Bluebeard”. [Paragraph?]Many comparisons can be drawn between the two stories, notably how both heroines are rescued by family. In “Bluebeard” the heroine’s brothers rush in and stab her terrible husband: “... two officers, dressed in their uniform, came in, and, with their swords in their hands, ran straight to Blue Beard, who, seeing they were his wife’s brothers, tried to escape from their presence; but they pursued and seized him before he had gone twenty steps, and plunging their swords into his body he fell down dead at their feet” (“Bluebeard”). The heroine, desperate for rescuing, had