Jane Eyre Outline
Catrina Notari
Mrs. Richardson
A.P. Eng. - Jane Eyre Outline
4 November 2014
1. Spiritual Reassessment or Moral Reconciliation:
a. Finding where ‘God’ wants her to be: hearing Mr. Rochester call her name when she asks for guidance about what to do
b. Eventually leading up to her marrying him and living her life happily loved and in love
2. Significance:
a. She achieves the love she had been starved for and slowly accumulating since her childhood after Gateshead.
i. She has the ultimate love with someone who sees her as beautiful and worthwhile. ii. Towards the end of the novel she seems to be referred to more pretty more often than plain. Why?
b. Talking about St. John ties up loose ends:
i. Self-sacrifice; how to serve people the right way? ii. Illnesses- prevalent throughout Jane Eyre (St. John’s is overwork) iii. India reminds of West Indies: Rochester & Bertha; Travel
c. Becoming worthy of love:
i. Respecting morals and the inviolability of the soul as much as earthly pleasures ii. Rochester praises God, who he had forsaken for his misfortune with Bertha iii. Jane sees another side of the social system and lives simply and selflessly iv. Jane goes to find her path, and receives a sign from God to go back to where she belongs when Rochester is ready
v. The child is a symbol of their new life
Mrs. Richardson
A.P. Eng. - Jane Eyre Outline
4 November 2014
1. Spiritual Reassessment or Moral Reconciliation:
a. Finding where ‘God’ wants her to be: hearing Mr. Rochester call her name when she asks for guidance about what to do
b. Eventually leading up to her marrying him and living her life happily loved and in love
2. Significance:
a. She achieves the love she had been starved for and slowly accumulating since her childhood after Gateshead.
i. She has the ultimate love with someone who sees her as beautiful and worthwhile. ii. Towards the end of the novel she seems to be referred to more pretty more often than plain. Why?
b. Talking about St. John ties up loose ends:
i. Self-sacrifice; how to serve people the right way? ii. Illnesses- prevalent throughout Jane Eyre (St. John’s is overwork) iii. India reminds of West Indies: Rochester & Bertha; Travel
c. Becoming worthy of love:
i. Respecting morals and the inviolability of the soul as much as earthly pleasures ii. Rochester praises God, who he had forsaken for his misfortune with Bertha iii. Jane sees another side of the social system and lives simply and selflessly iv. Jane goes to find her path, and receives a sign from God to go back to where she belongs when Rochester is ready
v. The child is a symbol of their new life