How Does Bronte Use Bildungsroman In Jane Eyre
“In Jane Eyre, Bronte explores the importance of love and acceptance through a narrative technique which has immortalized her text”
Discuss this view, with close reference to the novel and your critical understanding of perspectives.
In Jane Eyre, Bronte captures the protagonist story through a bildungsroman and explores the importance of love and acceptance. The author constructed narrative presents these universal issues as being battled between the religious and romantic structures, which extends till the end of the novel. Jane’s journey for salvation is challenged by her quest for love, to discern between creator and creature, in which Jane finds no concluding affiliation too. Without a definite and providential ending, readers are left …show more content…
Even outside of Gateshead, Jane exists as the other, as Mr. Broklehurst denies Jane her humanity by placing her on a stool and humiliating her, stating that Jane “is a little castaway: not a member of the true flock, but evidently an interloper and an alien”. The punishment is reminiscent of the red-room experience, metaphorical to the lack of control Jane had to her body. Jane’s spiritual journey is tested by Broklehurst’s evangelical Calvinism and the friendship with Helen Burns Evangelical Protestantism, a flattering portrait that balances the satire of Broklehurst’s hypocrisy. In Helen’s deathbed she says "By dying young, I shall escape great sufferings”. With the death of Helen, it symbolizes a spiritual crisis in Jane’s life, her losing of religious conviction. Jane continually questions Helen “where is God, what is God? - You are sure then that there is such place as heaven- where is that region, does it exists?” Helen seeks happiness in heaven; however Jane is determined to find hers on earth. Though Lowood offered an education, it did not give a definite conclusion to her want for love and acceptance. When Jane leaves Lowood, Helen’s wise words of ‘advertise’, acts as a metaphor and is kept deep within Jane, as she continually advertises herself, to find a lover, either with God or
Discuss this view, with close reference to the novel and your critical understanding of perspectives.
In Jane Eyre, Bronte captures the protagonist story through a bildungsroman and explores the importance of love and acceptance. The author constructed narrative presents these universal issues as being battled between the religious and romantic structures, which extends till the end of the novel. Jane’s journey for salvation is challenged by her quest for love, to discern between creator and creature, in which Jane finds no concluding affiliation too. Without a definite and providential ending, readers are left …show more content…
Even outside of Gateshead, Jane exists as the other, as Mr. Broklehurst denies Jane her humanity by placing her on a stool and humiliating her, stating that Jane “is a little castaway: not a member of the true flock, but evidently an interloper and an alien”. The punishment is reminiscent of the red-room experience, metaphorical to the lack of control Jane had to her body. Jane’s spiritual journey is tested by Broklehurst’s evangelical Calvinism and the friendship with Helen Burns Evangelical Protestantism, a flattering portrait that balances the satire of Broklehurst’s hypocrisy. In Helen’s deathbed she says "By dying young, I shall escape great sufferings”. With the death of Helen, it symbolizes a spiritual crisis in Jane’s life, her losing of religious conviction. Jane continually questions Helen “where is God, what is God? - You are sure then that there is such place as heaven- where is that region, does it exists?” Helen seeks happiness in heaven; however Jane is determined to find hers on earth. Though Lowood offered an education, it did not give a definite conclusion to her want for love and acceptance. When Jane leaves Lowood, Helen’s wise words of ‘advertise’, acts as a metaphor and is kept deep within Jane, as she continually advertises herself, to find a lover, either with God or