Examples Of Charlotte Bronte's Family In Jane Eyre
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Engl 3820
Jane Eyre Essay
April 23, 2013 Bront’s Family or Fiction: Did Charlotte BrontWrite about her Family in Jane Eyre? In the novel Jane Eyre, Charlotte Bront wrote about wish fulfillment. In the novel, Jane is never satisfied. She always needs more, more respect, more money, more in life. Another theme as Freud would say is that of the “Daydreaming poet.” This is where the adult dreams for more, but he would say that for females it is the longing for sexual matters not ambition. This is not true for Jane. Charlotte wrote also about two families that are in one way connected directly to Jane, the Rivers and the Reeds. In the first chapter Jane introduces the readers to her family. The first one introduced …show more content…
Jane’s female cousins were not much better. Although Charlotte and her sisters got along well Charlotte was not as close to them as she was to her older sister who died. She included that relationship too. In the novel Jane is sent to a boarding school for the poor. This is a disguise for what happened to the Bront sisters. They were sent to a boarding school for the daughters of the clergy. It was a charity school. The girls at the school were treated very badly and some became very sick even died. Unfortunately two of Charlotte’s sisters were in the latter group. Charlotte wrote a friend for Jane into the part where Jane is at the school. This friend is like a sister to Jane and helps her through the transitions to the school. Her name was Helen. Other characters that represent Charlotte’s sisters are Georgiana and Eliza, Jane’s Reed cousins, and the Rivers sisters Mary and Diana. Charlotte does not portray her family in a very good light. The Reed sisters are vain and selfish, but charlotte does give some complements to the girls. Eliza devotes her life to the church after her mother’s death, and Georgiana is called the most beautiful of the sisters. Charlotte repairs this view of her sisters in the Rivers sisters. Mary and Diana are very nice and generous to Jane. They open their home and help Jane when she is
Engl 3820
Jane Eyre Essay
April 23, 2013 Bront’s Family or Fiction: Did Charlotte BrontWrite about her Family in Jane Eyre? In the novel Jane Eyre, Charlotte Bront wrote about wish fulfillment. In the novel, Jane is never satisfied. She always needs more, more respect, more money, more in life. Another theme as Freud would say is that of the “Daydreaming poet.” This is where the adult dreams for more, but he would say that for females it is the longing for sexual matters not ambition. This is not true for Jane. Charlotte wrote also about two families that are in one way connected directly to Jane, the Rivers and the Reeds. In the first chapter Jane introduces the readers to her family. The first one introduced …show more content…
Jane’s female cousins were not much better. Although Charlotte and her sisters got along well Charlotte was not as close to them as she was to her older sister who died. She included that relationship too. In the novel Jane is sent to a boarding school for the poor. This is a disguise for what happened to the Bront sisters. They were sent to a boarding school for the daughters of the clergy. It was a charity school. The girls at the school were treated very badly and some became very sick even died. Unfortunately two of Charlotte’s sisters were in the latter group. Charlotte wrote a friend for Jane into the part where Jane is at the school. This friend is like a sister to Jane and helps her through the transitions to the school. Her name was Helen. Other characters that represent Charlotte’s sisters are Georgiana and Eliza, Jane’s Reed cousins, and the Rivers sisters Mary and Diana. Charlotte does not portray her family in a very good light. The Reed sisters are vain and selfish, but charlotte does give some complements to the girls. Eliza devotes her life to the church after her mother’s death, and Georgiana is called the most beautiful of the sisters. Charlotte repairs this view of her sisters in the Rivers sisters. Mary and Diana are very nice and generous to Jane. They open their home and help Jane when she is