"In Our Time" Oberg

Pros-

• Confirms many questions that I had
• It was straight forward
• I got more info for my essay (autobiographical)
• I learned more about the time period

Cons-

• It was hard to understand them at times when they started talking fast with their accents
• Way too much information that wasn't useful
• They didn't go into depth over certain topics that I wanted them to

I loved how they talked about how much of a comparison Bronte and Eyre were in their everyday lives. Bronte was enrolled into a Clergy Daughter's School in her early life with her sister. She then returned home and got a job as a governess. This is a huge and obvious connection that they had. Another connection I found between them was that Bronte went to Belgium with her sister and eventually fell in love with a professor. Jane and Bronte both went on a journey to find the love of their life. 

The podcast mentioned how the landscape, weather, houses, and clothing represented the mood for the chapter/scene. This reminded me of one of the topics from a chapter that we read this summer in How to Read Literature Like a Professor by Thomas C. Foster. I enjoyed this chapter due to the fact that I connected with it so well. The podcast also talked about how "you could almost know what Jane was wearing just by her mood." Now that I think of it, every chapter had a special tone to it whether it was the special way Bronte described everything or the way she would use weather to create the mood.