1. I find Jane Eyre very interesting in many aspects. It was very difficult for me to narrow my topic down to one thing. I would like to plan of discussing the different representations of various women in the novel. There are conflicting ideas between how each woman acts, lives, and how men view them. The women in the novel portray what Jane learns about feminine behavior and the struggle for perfection to please a man. The women are only pleased by the wealth and elegance of others rather than personality.
2. Bessie, when she heard this narrative, sighed and said, "Poor Miss Jane is to be pitied, too, Abbot." "Yes," responded Abbot, "if she were a nice, pretty child, one might compassionate her forlornness; but one really cannot care for such a little toad as that." "Not a great deal, to be sure," agreed Bessie: "at any rate a beauty like Miss Georgiana would be more moving in the same condition." "Yes, I doat on Miss Georgiana!" cried the fervent Abbot. "Little darling! – with her long curls and her long curls and her blue eyes, and such a sweet colour as she has; just as if she were painted!" ( Bronte 1.3.77-80) Jane is famous for being a plain girl rather than beautiful, and here we see the unfortunate and unfair consequences of her plainness: the help find it difficult to sympathize with her just because she is not pretty and sweet and blue eyed has curly hair. Compassion and affection are easier for people like Bessie and Abbot to
Although there are a lot of differences between these novels, the characters Jane Fairfax and Jane Eyre have a lot in common. First of all, both are orphans trying to manage their lives on their own. As orphans, they are more independent than others, as Adrienne Rich puts it: “mothers are dependent and powerless themselves and can only teach their daughters how to survive by the same means: marriage to a financially secure male.” (Thaden 63) Motherless children, on the other hand, had to find a way…
Savino Brusco AP English Period 3 December 10, 14 Jane Eyre Watercolor Paintings The first painting Jane Eyre shows to Mr. Rochester embodies hidden meanings allowing the audience to see Jane’s personality from another angle. The sea, representing Jane, shows how she is calm and consistent, while the clouds, Jane’s hardships, hovering over the sea make the painting dark and gloomy expressing Jane’s tough life of suffering and misfortune. The “half-submerged mast” (Bronte 118) indicates that a boat…
Jane Eyre, it is only fitting that the title bears her name and her name alone. Jane Eyre, as a child this title captures her central struggle, ostracized by the Reeds and loathed by Mr. Brocklehurst, she yearns to be loved, even if it means sacrificing the parts of herself she holds dearest. But as an adult the title of the this novel captures a different sense of independence, not one of loathsome segregation but of choice isolation, a realization that happiness is not rooted completely in love…
novel Jane Eyre using many characters as symbols. In Jane Eyre, Bronte supports the theme that routine actions are not always moral through the conventional personalities of Mrs. Reed, Mr. Brocklehurst, and St. John Rivers. The novel begins in Gateshead where Jane must avoid her aunt and cousins because she does not know how to speak politely to them and please them. Mrs. Reed possesses a higher standing in society and due to Jane's lower class standing, Mrs. Reed treats Jane as an outcast…
Jane Eyre Analysis In Jane Eyre, there is a secret that is very important to the plot later in the book. After Jane grows up, she moves to a new house called Thornfield Hall. This is where she meets a man named Mr. Rochester. Mr. Rochester run's Thornfield hall and operates it from many different locations, as his business requires him to travel. After he visits a few times, Jane eventually falls in love with Mr. Rochester. All seems well as Jane has finally found love in the rich, eccentric…
Jane Eyre – Charlotte Bronte Jane Eyre is often criticized for being moved along to often by the supernatural or coincidence. It is to coincidental to be believed, and ends to happily in the Victorian Sense, as Jane ends up married to the man she loves. It is both a coming of age and a romance story. All of the Bronte sisters were writers. Anne Bronte is not as well known as she wrote shorter books like, The Tenant of Wildfell Hall. Emily Bronte wrote only one book, but it may be the best, Wuthering…
1. The Brontë Sisters and their socio-cultural background Wuthering Heights and Jane Eyre were written during an age when "the novel as a genre knew great flourishment” (Barbara Z. Thaden, p. 9) Barbara Z. Thaden notes in her book Student's Compagnion to Emily and Charlotte Brontë. In the Victorian period many good writers, such as Sir Walter Scott, Mary Shelly, Charles Dickens, Thackeray, were meant to remain models for the young generations. The Brontës greatly admired these writers placed…
Charlotte Bronte’s Jane Eyre, there are multiple conflicts that occur in the novel, but one that seems to stand out the most. The conflict of love and emotion between Jane and Mr. Rochester seems to be one of the most prominent struggles within the novel. This conflict seems to start when Blanche Ingram begins her relationship with Mr. Rochester, and even though Jane is in love with him, she feels inferior to her because of her rank in social class. During the beginning, Jane seems to let things…
The Importance of Jane’s Education The classic novel Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte tells the story of a young woman maturing into a gracious, intelligent woman with the help of friends, but most importantly education. To escape from her cruel aunt, Jane went to a charity school for girls named Lowood. She exceled in all her classes, leading her to believe that she would be teaching as her occupation. Soon it all changes when she becomes governess of an unusual yet charming man’s ward in a wealthy…
Feminism in Jane Eyre After reading Jane Eyre, I think Jane Eyre is a great woman. Jane is disadvantaged in many ways as she has no wealth, family, social position or beauty. Jane does have intelligence though, and her disposition is such to make Rochester fall in love with her. Through a serious of troublesome situations between Jane Eyre and Mr. Rochester, the author set up a great female image before us: insisting on maintaining an independent personality, pursuing individual freedom, advocating…
