Brontë's Jane Eyre: Ideas of Human Endurance
“The main source of Jane Eyre’s interest is the story of immense human endurance”
Explore the methods which use to present the idea of human endurance.
Jane is already predisposed to poor treatment due to her status socially and economically in society.
Jane’s position in society is ambiguous she is already mistreated by the prejudice Victorian society before she is even rejected by her aunt.
We see Jane persevere through a societal situation where she is destined to be disposable to men and a dispensable governess but Jane refuses these titles and fights, abruptly for what she believes in at all times. “I am no bird; and no net ensnares me: I am a free human being with an independent will.”
We are able to sympathise and empathise with her situation and admire her patriotism for her own self-worth and ability to perceiver into the happiness and respect she deserves.
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Through the red room we are able to see the symbolism of her entrapment, isolation and desire to break free
Foreshadowing and imagery emphasises how isolated Jane is from the rest of her peers “dark and haunted chamber”
Even at Lowood this is a recurring theme of the unjust and sufferable nature of her childhood.
A symbol of her isolation from compassion during her childhood
Through the repeated use of this symbol we see how Jane is imprisoned by her own treatment.
Following Jane’s escape from the Red Room we see that she when she is “then happy” with Edward the door on the Red Room almost closes but never fully, because her isolation never truly perishes.
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Dreams or the “weight on her spirits” as Jane calls them allow for Jane once again to foresee and prophesise into the future.
In Janes dream her veil is ripped representing the unveiling of something she wishes to keep private.
In direct parallel to this dream, as Jane unveils herself further to Rochester by revealing her dream to him he simply leaves Jane “without a tear, without a kiss, without a word”,
Explore the methods which use to present the idea of human endurance.
Jane is already predisposed to poor treatment due to her status socially and economically in society.
Jane’s position in society is ambiguous she is already mistreated by the prejudice Victorian society before she is even rejected by her aunt.
We see Jane persevere through a societal situation where she is destined to be disposable to men and a dispensable governess but Jane refuses these titles and fights, abruptly for what she believes in at all times. “I am no bird; and no net ensnares me: I am a free human being with an independent will.”
We are able to sympathise and empathise with her situation and admire her patriotism for her own self-worth and ability to perceiver into the happiness and respect she deserves.
1st Paragraph
Through the red room we are able to see the symbolism of her entrapment, isolation and desire to break free
Foreshadowing and imagery emphasises how isolated Jane is from the rest of her peers “dark and haunted chamber”
Even at Lowood this is a recurring theme of the unjust and sufferable nature of her childhood.
A symbol of her isolation from compassion during her childhood
Through the repeated use of this symbol we see how Jane is imprisoned by her own treatment.
Following Jane’s escape from the Red Room we see that she when she is “then happy” with Edward the door on the Red Room almost closes but never fully, because her isolation never truly perishes.
2nd Paragraph
Dreams or the “weight on her spirits” as Jane calls them allow for Jane once again to foresee and prophesise into the future.
In Janes dream her veil is ripped representing the unveiling of something she wishes to keep private.
In direct parallel to this dream, as Jane unveils herself further to Rochester by revealing her dream to him he simply leaves Jane “without a tear, without a kiss, without a word”,