One’s attitude toward change correlates directly with the outcome of his or her life. In the novel‚ Jane Eyre‚ Charlotte Bronte examines how emphasizing or neglecting what makes one truly happy when dealing with change impacts one’s life. St.John throws away the possibility of a happy life when he makes the life changing decision to be a missionary and thus dies a lonely unsatisfied mad‚ whereas‚ when Jane faces the two biggest changes of her life‚ she puts what will make her happy first‚ which in turn
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but seldom revolted. Therefore rising spiritedly to revolt strives for being equal is the question which the feminism must solve first. The rebellious spirit was precisely the starting point of the heroine in” Jane Eyre”. In the early age of Jane‚ she appeared as a rebel. The destiny of Jane was erroneous. Not long after she was born‚ her parents left the world one after another. She had to live in her aunt’s family‚ and was treated as the servant. Faced her aunt’s maltreatment and humiliation‚ she
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Many of Jane Eyre’s watersheds were contributing factors of how she went from an unloved and dependent girl to a loved and independent woman. During her times at Gateshead‚ Lowood‚ and Thornfield‚ Jane matured and found out more about herself. However‚ perhaps the most important thing that led Jane to where she was at during the end of the story was her desire for a better life. Jane’s harsh treatment during her time at Gateshead as an orphan with her aunt and her cousins‚ the Reeds‚ led
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"Jane Eyre" is one of the most brilliant and popular novel written by Charlotte Bronte and it has successfully dealt with a number of issues that have not assumed the same poignancy in her other works of fiction. The book has handled certain very important issues such as racial discrimination‚ gender discrimination and others with great adroitness. Being centrally located around a woman most of the issues too‚ have been dealt with in context to her. To begin with‚ it is interesting to note
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the Bronte Sisters’‚ especially that of Jane Eyre. Common themes of victorian literature are shared with Jane Eyre. Food was a reoccurring theme of throughout many Victorian novels because of the hunger that many people faced in this time period. This theme is reflected in the vivid description of under nourishment at Lowood School in Charlotte Bronte’s Jane Eyre. Another common theme was women’s morality and sensuality. Before the publication of Jane Eyre‚ women were simple and genuine under the
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and questioning what really matters to them and what their own true beliefs are‚ it’s just the normal progression of life. In Jane Eyre‚ Jane is seen as searching‚ and questioning her own spiritual beliefs from an early age. Jane struggles to find the right balance between ideas of faith and her own principles. Jane meets Mr. Brocklehurst at a very young age and leads Jane to question everything about religion; this moment illustrates Mr. Brocklehurst as an embodiment of harsh evangelical religion
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Lies and Love The main protagonist from both Jane Eyre and The Eyre Affair both deal with the struggles of achieving honest love with their respective love interest due to the unusual circumstances of the relationships. For Jane‚ her and Rochester’s relationship is not normal in any sense of the word. For Thursday‚ the issues she has with Landen are much more realistic‚ but they sting just the same. Both Jane and Thursday have their fair share of issues with their men‚ but some of them are not that
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Authors like Edgar Allan Poe‚ Nathaniel Hawthorne‚ and William Faulkner have presented gothic literature throughout their writing during the 18th and 19th centuries. Gothic literature is defined as a "distinct modern development in which the characteristic theme is the stranglehold of the past upon the present"(294 Drabble and Stringer).Therefore‚ to deliver this theme to their readers they used gothic elements to create a "dark" sensation especially in the area of setting. All three authors in their
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“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
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GOTHIC LITERATURE The gothic novel was invented almost single-handedly by Horace Walpole‚ whose The Castle of Otranto (1764) contains essentially all the elements that constitute the genre. Walpole’s novel was imitated not only in the eighteenth century and not only in the novel form‚ but it has influenced writing‚ poetry‚ and even film making up to the present day. It introduced the term "gothic romance" to the literary world. Due to its inherently supernatural‚ surreal and sublime elements
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