Metacognition: Jane Eyre Mash-up

When first looking at the directions for the Jane Eyre Mash-up project, I was confused how to get started. My group had decided that we wanted to explore love and feminism, but we weren't quite sure how. Our first step was to find all of the quotes in Jane Eyre pertaining to love and feminism. Once we did that we started to make connections to other things that we had seen or heard in our lives.

After we began seeing connections to other songs, videos, and pictures, we found that what we were actually exploring was the status quo of feminism throughout different times in history during Jane Eyre and since. This focused our project and allowed us to find more outside sources.

I found that while doing this project my thinking changed a lot. I began to see aspects of modern feminism everywhere, and I was able to apply those to what I read in Jane Eyre so I could gain a better understanding of it. Just by looking at all the different views of feminism throughout time I saw that while there are many ways women have gained freedom since the 19th century, there are still ways we are held back.

Previous to this project I thought that feminism was something wasn't relevant anymore. I thought that in American society women were pretty much equal to men, but now I see the many stereotypes that are put on women these days, and I understand that feminism is still important.