Someone posted a Supernatural reference in the Jane Eyre tag and then someone else posted a Lana Del Rey reference plus someone wrote that after reading the novel she was “balling” her eyes out and basically my life is complete.*
*Not mocking the error, it is just a beautiful image, balling one’s eyes.
For readings on the correlation in horror between puberty and the monstrous, see:
- Barbara Creed’s The Monstrous-Feminine: Film, Feminism and Psychoanalysis (specifically, the chapter called “Woman As Possessed Monster”)
- Aviva Briefel’s “Monster Pains: Masochism, Menstruation, and Identification in Horror Film”
- “‘The Hair That Wasn’t There Before’: Demystifying Monstrosity and Menstruation in Ginger Snaps and Ginger Snaps Unleashed”
- Bianca Nielson’s “Something’s Wrong, Like More Than You Being Female”: Transgressive Sexuality and Discourses of Reproduction in Ginger Snaps”
- Shelley Stamp Lindsey’s “Horror, Femininity, and Carrie’s Monstrous Puberty”
I will add Carol Clover’s Men, Women, and Chain Saws here, although she’s concerned more with identification, monstrous-feminine as men’s horror, and the maternal aspects of possession tales (including a section on possession as oral penetration). Although both Creed and Clover are important feminist horror theorists who work in Psychoanalytical lenses, Barbara Creed talks more about transformation than Carol Clover does. And transformation is key to horror movies about how women are terrifying.
For variations on a theme, watch Ginger Snaps, Carrie, and Teeth together.
(Bonus: here is Kristeva’s Powers of Horror: an Essay on Abjection for free online)
“Just because we can say the room represents the womb and Jane’s fear of Uncle Reed’s ghost “penetrating” the room is her obvious fear of male genitals and some other Freudian mumbo-jumbo doesn’t mean we should.” —Jayson Greene, “Sorry, Feminism,” Eyresses
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Jane Eyre (1996) (via sweetestofwords)
She doesn’t say this in the book, just in the 96 movie. There is a line in the 1983 BBC version where she says, “When we are struck at, for no reason, we should strike back very, very hard,” that isn’t in the book and it kills me because that line is SO Jane and so good.
Movie title text designed as a black and white book cover. Text reads “Twentieth Century Fox presents Jane Eyre by Charlotte Brontë”
Myself, Wendy McClure, Kate Harding, and others, are doing a one-off zine about Jane Eyre just because, why not? IT’S A RICH TEXT. Write for it! It will be fun. Some ideas:
Dress your cat or dog (or hedgehog) up in period-appropriate outfits and submit a photo essay.
Discuss the racial and colonial issues in Jane Eyre—both Bertha and Mr. Mason threaten to undo the class system and life of privilege enjoyed by Mr. Rochester, but each time he survives—even though he has to be literally blinded to do so. (this isn’t the only aspect of the MANY racial and colonial issues—the question of the Mason’s race is up in the air, even, or are they just tainted by having associated with blacks?—just throwing it out there)
Madness and mental health in Jane Eyre—is Bertha Mason a madwoman? How is her treatment justified or not, within the story and in terms of the era? (again, not the only aspect)
Jane Eyre’s hair: What’s up with it? For. Real.
Inheritance and heritage as a theme
Cruelty and betrayal
Jane’s quest for a “relationship of equals”
Orphans and Prince Charmings—is this basically a fairy tale?
Your thoughts on Jane Eyre in comic form
Ellen Page as Jane Eyre in upcoming movie: Discuss
Wide Sargasso Sea--Jean Rhys’s brilliant (pre)text and the bizarre bodice-ripping movie that was made from it
Would love for someone to make a case for polyamory based on JE—would that have solved Rochester’s problems?
Dear Charlotte: Where’s the sisterhood? Is this a feminist text? Why do we want it to be?
XY Rochester: Representations of masculinity in the Eyress world (I was rightly called out for this hurtful usage; leaving it in to not elide, crossing it out with a thousand apologies.)
Dear Eyresses: What is the big deal about Jane Eyre, anyway? (Im totally into critical and dont-get-it pieces—but don’t want something that’s just like “I don’t like it, therefore it is stupid)
AND SO MUCH MORE. Please reblog and send your ideas, or claim one of the above. Eyresses@gmail.com
goals
one time i went to nyu group therapy for being lonely
FASHION ALERT!!!: this summer’s hottest trend is going to be cut-off shorts with the leg bits still on your body like thigh high legwarmers
This dude was happily taking pictures of girls legs, feet and whatever else he pleased without their consent. So I snapped my...
this is basic baby bullshit trash and also fascist hippie tripe and you need to miss me with it.
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