This is a term paper for a senior seminar class. I will provide some of my notes and research that I have done so far. I will also upload the sources I had plan on using. Below is the thesis that should only need proofreading:
The plots in Charlotte Bronte?s novel, Jane Eyre, and Jeffery Eugenides? novel, The Marriage Plot display the typical outline of a marriage plot; however, they do not follow the idea of a simple marriage plot exactly. In Jane Eyre, our narrator, Jane, starts off as an unwanted orphan with nothing to her name and is brushed off to a charity school, it ends with her finding her wealthy family and marrying the man of her dreams. In The Marriage Plot, two of the three main characters, Madeline and Mitchell, start off knowing exactly what is they want or are looking for, only to wind up, in the end, discovering that they originally wanted was not ideal. While both of these novels diverge from the marriage plot and seem to take root more so in a coming of age plot, that is not what is happening. What the novels are doing, are pulling away from a simple marriage plot: two suitors vying for the female?s hand in marriage, which has the ?narrative that ends, or almost ends, in a [happy] marriage or marriages, and is largely concerned throughout with courtship? (O?Connell 384). As such, what these novels are doing are following the plot of a different kind of a marriage plot, one known as wedlock, which is a marriage plot that ?serves as an index to the social, ethical, and historical orientation of the novelist? (Hinz 902). The wedlock marriage plot also allows for the word itself to be split into wed and lock to further describes what type of wedlock marriage plot a novel takes. If emphasis is placed on wed, it describes an optimistic or comic wedlock marriage plot and if the emphasis is on lock, it describes a tragic wedlock marriage plot. By showing how Jane Eyre and The Marriage Plot diverge from the traditional realms of a marriage plot, I will show how they each compare and/or contrast with the elements of a wedlock marriage plot.
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