Saturday 1 March 2014

Freytag's Triangle


Wheeler, K (2004)


The story of Jane Eyre can be transferred onto Freytag's Triangle.

As the story starts, Jane grows up in Gateshead, attending Lowood and then moving on to Thornfield Hall. These events lead to the climax in the story at Thornfield Hall. When Jane is about to Marry Mr. Rochester, and Mr. Mason declares he can't as Mr. Rochester is still married to Mr. Mason's sister Bertha, this presents a climax in the story. This is seen as the climax because everything in Jane's life is moving forward up till this point. When she refused to marry Mr. Rochester, and runs away in the middle of the night, she finds herself begging on the streets. The story then slowly moves Jane to her destiny, as she is found by her cousins of John Eyre, taking her in and allowing Jane to continue to find herself, as well as her true love. The story comes to a close, back at the bottom of the triable as Jane goes back to Mr. Rochester, this time to marry him as his equal.


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