SOCRATIC SEMINAR QUESTIONS FOR MON-TUES

Below are the questions we will take up during your graded Socratic Seminar Monday and Tuesday:

- Write your answers in notes.
- Have books marked in order to reference pages/passages that support your viewpoint.
- Review Socratic Seminar evaluation sheet to see how you're being assessed.

1. How does Rhys's narrative fit into the post-colonial mode? Think of specific examples.
2. Is there a purpose to Rhys's narrative or is it merely character assassination and fan-fiction? What is her intention in the writing of her novel?
3. How does each author's portrayal of the feminine condition differ? In which particular way?
4. In how many different ways can Antoinette be considered a tragic protagonist?
5. How are gender and empire paralleled in Wide Sargasso Sea?
6. In how many different ways does Rhys shift perspective? Whose perspective?
7. Does Religion play into the narratives of both novels? What about the respective authors' view of religion or morality?
8. What is 'Englishness'? How is it represented in each narrative? Is there a contrast?
9. What are the tensions present in Wide Sargasso Sea if read as a post-colonial text?
10. Is Antoinette actually insane? How could you argue either side?
11. What role does victimization play in both novels?
12. How do conceptions of class and status affect the fate of characters in both novels?

Summer Reading Thesis

Because both novels are based on history, setting is crucial to understanding the character's struggles against society.

Thesis Statement-Estrella

Charlotte Bronte uses imagery, motif,diction, and setting throughout the novel Jane Eyre to reflect her life in Jane's.

thesis

jane's life is autobiography of Charlotte Bronte with a more ideal ending.

Jane's Strength

Desert Academy 2010 Jane's Survival

''Most true is it that 'beauty is in the eye of the gazer'.'' (pg.203, Bronte)

        Jane goes through many hard ships throughout the novel.  From her aunt and her cousins miss treating her to the betrayal at the alter from Mr.Rochester.  Jane does not always find happiness but finds a way to put the humiliation in the past.  In the quote above it refers that "beauty is in the eye of the gazer', as happiness as well.  Jane survives throughout the novel because she is the gazer of beauty, happiness, and love.  By being her own "gazer", Jane controls what and how she feels.  Even though certain characters and events spark her, she ultimately controls the way she feels.  In the novel as well in real life, the only person you can control is yourself.   Jane also controls her feeling by simply moving on, leaving her regrets in the past. Everyone makes mistakes but it's not the mistakes that are recognized, it's what you do in response to them.    Jane is a strong and happy woman when she wants to be and controls how she feels.

Thesis- Toby

Charlotte Bronte and Jean Rhys utilize secondary male characters to establish fear in the lives of the female protagonists of their novels Jane Eyre and Wide Sargasso Sea.

Onima's Thesis

There are many similarities between Jane Eyre,and the author Charlotte Bronte's life; supporting the idea that Jane Eyre is in part autobiographical.

Stuart's Thesis

Wide Sargasso Sea shows Rochester as a more careless man, where as Jane Eyre represents Rochester as a victim.

Emily's Thesis Statement

In the novels Jane Eyre and Wide Sargasso Sea , Charlotte Bropnte and Jean Rhys express the downfall of femininity through character development.

Thesis statement

By: Maddy-E

Charlotte Bronte and Jean Rhyes use differing perceptions of Mr. Rochester in order to reveal the complexity of his character.

Thesis Statement

It is evident from the many parallels between the lives of Charlotte Bronte and Jane that Bronte drew heavily from her experiences as a girl and a young woman when writing her now infamous novel, Jane Eyre.

Annie's Thesis Statement

Early secondary characters create adversity which helps character development and to form Jane's sense of self worth and disconnect from conventional ideals.

luca's theses

The main character Jane Eyre in Bronte's book "Jane Eyre", is representing Charlotte's life, the only difference is that Jane Eyre has a "happy ending" and Bronte doesn't.

Ariana's Thesis.

Jane Eyre is effectivally an autobiography of the author Charlotte Bronte's life.

Ariana's Thesis.

Jane Eyre is effectivally an autobiography of the author Charlotte Bronte's life.

Thesis Statement

Rochester has two side to himself in both Jane Eyre and Wide Sargasso Sea. Mr. Rochester's good and bad sides will be compared.