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Hot and Bothered

One Eyre: He Wanted to Train Me (Chapters 34 + 35)

Hot and Bothered

Not Sorry Productions

Books, Feminism, Intersectionality, Arts, Relationships, Society & Culture

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🗓️ 12 November 2021

⏱️ 52 minutes

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Summary

Vanessa and Lauren say 'no' to St. John, in Chapters 34 and 35 of Jane Eyre. This week, St. John proposes to Jane. We look at his behavior before and after the proposal, discuss his missionary zeal, and debate whether the supernatural elements of this book serve or hinder its message.


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0:00.0

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0:05.8

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0:11.3

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0:16.6

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0:21.8

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0:28.2

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0:33.1

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0:59.1

We are now in the Singen is an absolute monster chapters.

1:06.2

Jane, now in Aris, moves back to Morehouse and gets the whole house ready with Hannah for Christmas.

1:13.9

Diana and Mary come home and the three women are so happy to be together and free from a life of teaching.

1:22.1

Singen starts to ruin the fun immediately.

1:26.8

He's disgruntled with Jane's interest in domestic work and says he'll give her a short while to live this way.

1:34.4

Jane notices that Singen, quote, lived only to aspire after what was good and great certainly,

1:41.8

but still he would never rest nor approve of others resting around him.

1:49.0

Eventually, Singen decides that Jane's time of happiness, her time of reading and studying with Mary and Diana,

1:56.2

is up and he asks her to start studying Hindustani with him and put down the German she's been enjoying working on.

2:04.3

He says that he needs someone to study with him so that he can practice Hindustani before he leaves on his mission to India in three months time.

2:14.4

But it turns out that Singen has another motivation behind this request.

2:19.1

He wants Jane to come with him to serve as a missionary in India and wants her to come as his wife.

2:29.2

Jane immediately hates the idea.

2:33.0

Here is Professor Miriam Burstein.

2:35.8

Well, part of the complication about Singen Rivers is that his basic goal in life to be a missionary is something that Charlotte Bronte wholeheartedly supports.

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