In the novel "Jane Eyre" by Charlotte Bronte, the author engages the reader with imagery and melancholic details. Utilizing imagery helps the reader understand how lonely and difficult Jane's life can be. Although she is an orphan, books are her escape from reality, or at least an activity to spend time.…
the greatest allusion that one sees in charlotte brontes jane eyre is that of cinderella. as a girl who is orphaned and has to live with her step sisters and step mother that do not like cinderella jane eyre is forced to live with mrs reed who despises her and later mrs brockelhurst. this allusion further amplifies the story and meaning of the passage as it shows that true love conquers all. the story of jane eyre is one of a great fairy tale that resembles cinderella as when cinderella was nothing more than a servent to her step mother jane eyre was nothing more than a governess to sir rochester yet rochester fell in love with jane eyre as she was different from all the other girls just like prince charming fell in love with…
One of the most interesting aspects in the story of Jane Eyre is Charlotte Brontë's ability to use metaphors in order to convey Jane's feelings towards the world around her, and her feelings for it. The most frequently appearing example of this is the use of water and fire imagery, which is displayed through the emotions and actions of the main characters, Jane Mr. Rochester, and to a certain extent St. John Rivers.…
Charlotte Bronte’s Jane Eyre tells the story of Jane’s growth and development as she searches for a meaningful existence in society. Author Faith McKay said, “No matter what your family happens to be like…it affects who you are. It matters.” Jane is an orphan, forced to battle a cruel guardian, a patriarchal society, and a rigid social order. (Anderson, “Identity and Independence in Jane Eyre”) Jane has concrete beliefs in what women deserve, as well as obtainable goals for how she imagines her place in society as a woman (Lewkowicz, “The Experience of Womanhood in Jane Eyre”) and with self-growth, Jane Eyre was able to define herself as well as equip herself with wisdom and…
The main way that Charlotte Brontë creates sympathy for Jane Eyre is by telling the story through her. We see everything from her point of view. The effect is that, even if we see her behaving in a way we do not like, we understand why she behaves as she does, and share her feelings.…
The novel Jane Eyre is a story about a stoic woman who fights her entire life through many trials and tribulations until she finds true love and achieves an almost nirvana-like state of being. The manner, in which Charlotte Bronte writes, her tone and diction especially, lends its self to the many purposes of the novel. The diction of Bronte usually had characteristics of gothic culture and showed the usually negative and angry inner thoughts of Jane. The tone of the novel was there sympathetic towards Jane and displayed her as an intelligent and kind person who has been given a terrible lot in life. This allows the audience to feel connected with Jane because most people have gone through times in their life where they have felt similar emotions to that of Jane. This common thread between Jane and the audience allowed Bronte to better explain the internal struggles of Jane Eyre.…
Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte portrays the life of a young girl named Jane Eyre and the cruelties she experiences and witnesses in her life. Jane lives at Gateshead the house of her late uncle, with Mrs. Reed, her aunt and three cousins: John, Georgiana, and Eliza. Her family at Gateshead treats her poorly, they abuse her and wonder why she stays with them at Gateshead. Soon they send her off to a school for girls where Jane is introduced to unfamiliar people and a diverse way of life. Three of the countless individuals that Jane encounters all have their own views of Christianity that affect Jane. The three, Helen, Brocklehurst and St. John, each provide Jane with a different understanding of religion and morality.…
Love, morality, and determination are tested to its farthest limits in Charlotte Brontë’s classic Victorian novel, Jane Eyre, due to several situations and characters. One character in particular, Bertha Mason, is an eminently unrealistic character yet she can be considered one of the more capital characters that influences other much more plausible elements and actions in the story, especially those of Jane Eyre and Edward Rochester. Bertha Mason, an insane and overly aggressive wife that Rochester had hidden away for many years in his attic, was just one of the boundaries Jane Eyre and Rochester had to overpass, but possibly the most important. She creates many awkward and unrealistic actions in the story that consequently make her, as a whole, an unrealistic character.…
In Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte, Bronte’s use of foils to reveal Jane’s true character enriches the reader’s interest when reading the novel. Characters in the novel such as Georgina Reed, Blanche Ingram, Helen Burns, Bertha Mason and Mr. Rochester show a meaningful contrast to Jane’s personality.…
Jane Eyre, a Gothic novel by Charlotte Bronte, tells a story of a beauty and a beast. Jane Eyre grows up an orphaned girl in Victorian England who does not know love in her cruel aunt's household; after a few years her aunt sends her to a school where they abuse Jane further. After spending eight years as a student of Lowood and two as a teacher, she takes a nanny position where she meets Mr. Rochester, and sparks begin to fly. Bronte divides Jane's story into three significant sections, which have a different effect on Jane's life as seen at Gateshead, Lowood, and Thornfield .…
Jane Eyre has an abundance of Biblical, literary, and historical allusions. To enrich their comprehension, students might be asked to track allusions as they study the novel. A sampling of allusions, along with an explanation for each, is provided here for reference.…
Today, Charlotte Brontë’s masterpiece Jane Eyre continues to sell even 150 years after its release and has been mimicked ever since. What makes Jane Eyre so captivating to a modern audience is the plainness of the eponymous main character, a trait that is not found in many classic novels. It seems as though readers always turn to Jane Eyre when they feel the way she does throughout the majority of the novel; depressed and useless. Charlotte Brontë’s excellent use of character development amazingly turns a rather bleak story into an optimistic one of triumph and love. Charlotte Brontë uses her abilities as a writer to manipulate Jane’s voice throughout the novel by creating parallels between herself and Jane as a narrator by simulating the development of her character through her own description of events in Jane’s life, and as Jane recalls specific events from her childhood leading up to her marriage to Mr. Rochester she includes with beautiful detail the emotions she felt at every important moment, encapsulating the development of her character from her lonesome days at Gateshead to her wicked but motivating years at Lowood Institution and ending with the memories of her life in Thornfield…
Patriarchy, gender inequality and conflict between passion and reason are central themes in the novel Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte. Through the employment of motif these themes are symbolically established and developed. In the novel, Bronte utilises the gaze as a means of establishing the theme of patriarchy as it is secured as the medium through which Rochester and St John assert dominance over Jane. The same motif is also utilised as a means of challenging the established gender inequality as Jane imbued with a piercing gaze which she employs as a means of empowering herself as an individual as well as a woman. Fire and ice, characterised respectively by Rochester and St John, is juxtaposed in order to symbolically convey the thematic…
The Victorian era, with its fascinating social conventions and classes, cannot compare to present day America, with music and pop culture dominating the entertainment scene and government officials getting into publicized scandals. Victorian literature was generally compliant with social customs, with beautiful, reserved female protagonists who abide by patriarchy and hierarchy. The novels themselves were long, with multiple subplots and numerous characters. Charlotte Bronte's Jane Eyre, however, had a strong-willed anti-heroine main character that did not comply with social customs. Characteristics of anti-heroes and heroines are definite human flaws, not always thinking about what the moral action is, and rejection of traditional values. Jane Eyre is considered the anti-heroine because she defies the patriarchy and the social hierarchy in Victorian Society, as well as maintaining her autonomy. Her relationships with the four anti-heroes, St. John Rivers, John Reed, Mr. Brocklehurst, and Mr. Rochester, help criticize Victorian literary convention because they do not always do the morally correct actions.…
In the novel, "Jane Eyre", by Charlotte Bronte, the author creates a sense of imprisonment for the main character due to the usage of literary devices such as imagery, point of view, and mood/tone. These devices provide the reader with a clear picture or image that puts the reader in the in the main characters shoes. The reader can feel what the main character feels through literary devices.…