Jane is a character repeatedly subjected to violence and hatred from her adoptive family‚ The Reeds. Her experiences are scary and abuse her body and her mind and eventually shape her into who she will become later in her life. She is also often undermined and taken advantage of and therefore made to feel small and worthless. ‘Roughly and violently thrust me back – into the red-room‚ and locked me up there’ demonstrates the cruelty in which Jane Eyre is treated. The use of the power of three on
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better than it was. Religion and hope are two main themes from the novel written by Charlotte Bronte‚ Jane Eyre. Jane Eyre is the tale of a young girl named Jane who lived and was raised an orphan in the home of her un-loving extended family. When considered to be “old enough” her aunt sent her away to a boarding school. Readers get to see Jane transform into a strong‚ smart‚ spiritual‚ and loving woman throughout
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Charlotte Brontë uses Jane Eyre and Helen Burns as foils to each other in her novel‚ Jane Eyre. To the audience‚ the two characters appear to be complete opposites due to the stark differences in the philosophy they have on life and in their actions. Despite not having much in common‚ Jane and Helen become good friends and Jane even learns some very important life lessons from her friendship with Helen. Furthermore‚ Helen Burns acts as the representation of an ideal Christian child‚ which has the
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an emotional need that even Jane‚ from Charlotte Bronte’s book Jane Eyre‚ can’t ignore. Throughout the story line‚ Jane is searching to find love. She was looking‚ not just for the love of a man‚ but for the love of a family but Jane’s search for love sometimes ends up challenging her independence. Jane’s independence is related to autonomy which is seen throughout the story and is often used as the center for determining moral responsibility for one’s actions. While Jane is wishing for love‚ she is
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treatment of the English population in the Victorian Era is demonstrated in the novel Jane Eyre. To begin with‚ an individual’s wealth and social class influenced how they were perceived and treated by society in Victorian England. One example of this is that the aristocrats and influential politicians
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With age comes change. This is especially true for Jane in Charlotte Bronte’s novel Jane Eyre. Jane Eyre is a dynamic character that changes from a mistreated‚ spirited little girl to an mature‚ independent woman with her own values. Jane Eyre grows throughout the novel. Other characters help her along her path of change‚ whether they are friend or foe. Jane is at first a young child that is completely dependent on others at and is trampled on and mistreated by the antagonists‚ Mrs. Reed and her
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In Bronte’s Jane Eyre‚ nature reveals Jane’s internal emotions and growth that she has difficulty expressing for herself. Bronte utilizes nature as her expression of what Jane has trapped inside. Jane finds her happiness in nature as well as the ability to grow past what she experienced in her troubling past. Nature acts as guidance for the reader to decipher Jane’s complicated emotions that she doesn’t show. Charlotte Bronte uses nature to parallel Jane’s emotions as well as her evolution from a
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Jane Eyre has become a feminist text because of Jane’s relationship with Mr Rochester. Jane Eyre focuses largely on the gothic‚ mysterious relationship between Jane and Rochester‚ the man who owns the estate where Jane is a governess and through her journey. Jane becomes the saviour/knight in shining armour for Mr Rochester. Brontë demonstrates this through the use of symbolism. she uses fire and ice to symbolise Jane and Rochester’s emotions throughout their journey. Fire is a metaphor for Jane
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Steven Earnshaw deconstructs the significance of “name” in Jane Eyre in his article‚ “‘Give me my name’: Naming and Identity In and Around Jane Eyre.” Earnshaw asserts that‚ “a focus on the framing provided by the title page with respect to name will offer further insights into the importance ‘names and naming’ have for the author‚ and insights into how ‘names and naming’ are being carefully handled in this mid-nineteenth-century context” (174). Earnshaw addresses the peculiarity of publishing a
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This excerpt from Jane Eyre reveals Jane’s character in contrast to her cousins Georgiana and John Reed. While her cousins were spoiled and went unpunished‚ Jane was considered a pain no matter what she did. After John throws a book at her‚ Jane has a violent outbreak‚ which Mrs. Reed determines to be her sole responsibility and sends her to the red room to be punished. Brontë establishes these characters early on in the novel with parallelism and imagery; this preliminary characterization is seen
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