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Jane Eyre
In what ways is Jane Eyre like or unlike a gothic novel?

Gothic novels were around from 1764 until about 1820 the gothic novels were said to have started with the castle of otranto by Horace warpole in 1764. Some features that can define a gothic novel are things such as terror, mystery, the supernatural, doom, death, decay, haunted buildings, ghost's, madness, hereditary problems and so on. Jane Eyre is not a gothic novel but it seems to have elements which are like that of a gothic novel.
Jane Eyre is set in an old castle the eventually ends in ruins. It has secret rooms behind tapestry's and dark corridors. Jane can see an awe inspiring landscape from the battlements of the castle. All of these elements of the setting of Jane Eyre have gothic elements to them, although they may have not been intended to have been slightly gothic.
There are events in Jane Eyre that are gothic in nature such as in chapter 20 Mr Rochester's wife bertha, which has a hereditary......

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