'Above all Jane Eyre is a love story.' How far and in what ways do you agree with this view?
Above all, Jane Eyre is a love story. How far and in what ways do you agree with this view?
Jane Eyre is a novel about a trembling woman who falls in love with a Byronic man, the two fight against the many boundaries in their society (which are based around Jane’s social and economic standing) and after much suffering are finally able to be with one another. Essentially, Jane Eyre is a love story.
The structure of the novel and events show the character development of Jane through her growing feelings for Mr Rochester. The novel was originally published in 3 separate volumes; each showing a different stage of development. The first volume develops the character which Mr Rochester falls in love with, the people she meets between chapters one and ten develop Jane’s character after the eight year skip in the narrative. Volume 2; shows Jane’s feelings for Mr Rochester developing into love. This is typical of conventional love stories as Volume 2 ‘The Romantic Arc’ illustrates Jane’s growing feelings for Mr Rochester and her jealousy of Blanche Ingram ‘The Other Woman’. Through her experiences in this volume Jane has to face her inadequacies which allow the next volume to have a higher impact as the reader see that Jane must go through a mental and emotional roller coaster to achieve her dreams. Volume 3 is the painful separation of the couple and the fantastical re-uniting of the lovers, which ends in their questionable ‘Happily Ever After’, shows how Jane’s feelings are strengthened after overcoming the forces that stopped Jane from being with Mr Rochester. The overall story-line and basic structure of events in the novel prove Jane Eyre to be a conventional romance novel.
Jane Eyre has a fairytale-esque quality to the story, typical of a fairy tale the damsel in distress is saved from her misery by her Prince or Knight in shining armour. Though Jane Eyre is not saved by Mr Rochester, rather than that it is Jane who helps Mr Rochester; for example when they
Jane Eyre is a novel about a trembling woman who falls in love with a Byronic man, the two fight against the many boundaries in their society (which are based around Jane’s social and economic standing) and after much suffering are finally able to be with one another. Essentially, Jane Eyre is a love story.
The structure of the novel and events show the character development of Jane through her growing feelings for Mr Rochester. The novel was originally published in 3 separate volumes; each showing a different stage of development. The first volume develops the character which Mr Rochester falls in love with, the people she meets between chapters one and ten develop Jane’s character after the eight year skip in the narrative. Volume 2; shows Jane’s feelings for Mr Rochester developing into love. This is typical of conventional love stories as Volume 2 ‘The Romantic Arc’ illustrates Jane’s growing feelings for Mr Rochester and her jealousy of Blanche Ingram ‘The Other Woman’. Through her experiences in this volume Jane has to face her inadequacies which allow the next volume to have a higher impact as the reader see that Jane must go through a mental and emotional roller coaster to achieve her dreams. Volume 3 is the painful separation of the couple and the fantastical re-uniting of the lovers, which ends in their questionable ‘Happily Ever After’, shows how Jane’s feelings are strengthened after overcoming the forces that stopped Jane from being with Mr Rochester. The overall story-line and basic structure of events in the novel prove Jane Eyre to be a conventional romance novel.
Jane Eyre has a fairytale-esque quality to the story, typical of a fairy tale the damsel in distress is saved from her misery by her Prince or Knight in shining armour. Though Jane Eyre is not saved by Mr Rochester, rather than that it is Jane who helps Mr Rochester; for example when they