<b>Seeking Wild Eyre: Landscape and the Environment in Charlotte Brontë’s <i>Jane Eyre</i></b> // En busca de la salvaje Eyre: paisaje y medioambiente en <i>Jane Eyre</i> de Charlotte Brönte
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https://doi.org/10.37536/ECOZONA.2013.4.2.534Keywords:
nature, Jane Eyre, Victorian, landscape, freedom, naturaleza, victoriano, paisaje, libertadAbstract
Applying techniques from the growing field of ecocriticism, this article uses Jane Eyre to explore a growing environmental awareness among middle-class Victorians and demonstrate how their need to preserve a “wild” or “natural” landscape coincides with ideas of liberty and freedom prevalent in the novel. By looking at Jane’s changing interactions with and interpretations of the natural world, we can gain a better understanding of the value and interpretation of landscape to the Victorians. In Jane Eyre, Jane’s journeys continually lead her to finding a way to balance her human wants and needs with the “wildness” of the natural world.
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Aplicando técnicas del creciente campo de la ecocrítica, este artículo utiliza Jane Eyre para explorar una conciencia ambiental cada vez mayor entre los victorianos de clase media y demostrar cómo su necesidad de preservar un paisaje "salvaje" o "natural" coincide con las ideas de libertad en la novela. Al observar las interacciones cambiantes de Jane con el mundo natural y sus interacciones con éste, podemos comprender mejor el valor del paisaje y cómo se interpretaba en la época victoriana. En Jane Eyre, los viajes de Jane continuamente la llevan a encontrar una manera de equilibrar sus deseos y necesidades humanos con el "salvajismo" del mundo natural.
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