In Jane Eyre‚ the title character stands up against oppression and inequality towards herself‚ which demonstrates the author Charlotte Brontë’s feminist beliefs. From her early childhood‚ she believed in equal rights for herself in relation to her cousins. Mrs. Reed treats her as inferior to the “perfect” Eliza‚ Georgiana‚ and John. Jane says‚ “ ‘Unjust! Unjust!’ said my reason‚ […] instigated some strange expedient to achieve escape from insufferable oppression” (Brontë 21). Jane believes the reason
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character Jane Eyre is uncivilized because she challenges the social standards of her time with the ideologies she expresses through her actions. Jane Eyre marries for love rather than money or social status and she financially provides for herself; both of which are frowned upon by her society that values money‚ social standing‚ and the cult of domesticity (a doctrine that urged women to stay at home and fulfill their familial and household duties instead of enter the workforce or be single). Jane Eyre’s
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representations of the various ‘other’ women in the novel: Mrs Reed‚ Miss Temple‚ Céline Varens‚ Blanche Ingram and‚ to a lesser extent‚ Bertha Mason. What does Jane learn from these women? Which are positive role models? Which are negative? Throughout the novel‚ there are female characters who are either positive or negative role models to Jane. Due to the novel being about Jane’s personal development‚ the portrayals of the role models are such as to highlight how they influence Jane’s personal growth
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Annotated Bibliography Austen Jane‚ Pride and Prejudice‚ Planet PDF‚ (http://www.planetpdf.com/) The novel Pride and Prejudice is an electrifying story of the everyday going on during the nineteenth-century. The standards that are imparted in each of the character in the novel Pride and Prejudice represent the type of civilization there are on Jane Austen time. The story focuses mainly on the daughter of Bennet’s family who is trying to break the tradition that society accustomed. She does not want
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Jane Eyre consists of several themes which all play a part in the novel‚ with religion being a major theme. The Christianity religion‚ more specifically‚ is one of the main themes. In this research paper I would like to examine the relationship between Jane Eyre and the Christianity religion. I also want to look at how Christianity plays its role in the novel. There are a few different types of Christianity represented by four characters in the novel; Mr. Brocklehurst‚ Helen‚ St. John‚ and the Jane
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Identity Formation in Jane Eyre The novel Jane Eyre details Jane’s journey through life. In the novel‚ Jane encounters several women who greatly influence her transformation from a young girl into a grown woman. The experiences she has shape her conception of how a woman should be. As a child‚ Jane is an orphan living with her cruel relatives‚ who treat her as an outcast and oppress her. However‚ there is one character‚ the nurse Bessie Lee‚ who acts as a mother figure to Jane and is always kind
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Jane’s dreams suggests that although Jane is close to her suppressed feelings‚ she is still rejecting them out of fear. Bertha’s presence within Jane’s paintings suggests Jane’s desire to have some of Bertha’s characteristics as well as her awareness that she must remain within the confines of society. During one of their many meetings‚ Rochester ask Jane to show him her drawings. Jane describes her second picture to the reader: Rising into the sky was a woman’s shape to the bust‚ portrayed in tints
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Joanna’s and Jane’s lifestyles. The Girls of Slender Means by Murial Spark is a novel about the girls who lived in the May of Teck Club during the year of 1945. There are many characters involved‚ but the one’s who caught my attention the most are Jane Wright and Joanna Childe. They represent different aspects of ideas‚ lifestyles and‚ also‚ have different perspectives on the “World of Books.” Joanna Childe was the daughter of a country rector
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The overriding theme of class and social status in the Victorian era is forgrounded in the opening chapter of Jane Eyre and explored in the entirety of the novel through Gothic genre literary technique of a double‚ between Jane’s wealthy cousins the Reeds contrasting with her lower class relatives‚ the Rivers. In the 19th century‚ class divisions were far more fixed and pronounced than they are today‚ and the predetermined class you were born into based on wealth‚ dictated the sort of life you would
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With detailed reference to chapter 7 discuss Bronte’s presentation of Mr. Brocklehurst Chapter seven sees Jane slightly more experienced to the ways of Lowood School. She has come to accept the poor conditions laid down by Mr. Brocklehurst‚ however has not yet learnt to ignore them and Bronte describes Jane suffering a lot in this chapter. This lack of food and appalling living conditions are down to the head of the school‚ Mr. Brocklehurst. This man uses his apparent strong beliefs in Christianity
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