How Does Jane Eyre Change Throughout The Novel
Across time, literature has been re-noun for taking readers on journey’s; transporting them into the past and into the future, displaying the changes in societies across the years. The tale of abused orphan Jane Eyre, who through the words of Charlotte Bronte, defies expectations, as she faces various obstacles and difficulties on her journey towards equality and autonomy. Bronte’s novel explores the emotional journey of Jane, using the physical process of her travels throughout the thirty years of which the novel spans to illustrate the change in her character, creating an understanding for readers of Jane’s place in the world as every journey concludes and a new one begins. In comparison, Virginia Woolf’s ‘Mrs. Dalloway’ avoids the physical
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The connection between the two is shown through the conversation they have prior to Jane leaving for Gateshead. The conversation is filled with emotion, as Jane knows that Rochester’s resistance to let her leave is due to him missing her and is caught off guard that Jane does have the option to leave, as up until this moment, he has treated her as his ‘property.’ Jane’s motive for autonomy whilst keeping her integrity, allows her to keep her self-respect, despite the amounts of abuse and deceit she faces across the novel. Rochester’s intentions to find Jane a new placement is an example of one of the obstacles faced by Jane, as Rochester prolongs his goodbye to avoid letting her leave. Throughout ‘Jane Eyre’, Bronte presents Jane with various obstacles such as, St. John, who similar to Rochester is selfish and arrogant, with Bronte providing a point of hypocrisy of religion. St. John’s obsession with religion is excessive, but he uses it in a tyrannical way against Jane which exempts the sincerity of his Christianity entirely. At this part of the novel, we see Jane as a stronger and more together character as she ‘scorn the counterfeit sentiment you offer’ and she ‘scorn your idea of love’ as St. John proposes to her. Bronte’s repetition of the word ‘scorn’ shows Jane’s stand for
The connection between the two is shown through the conversation they have prior to Jane leaving for Gateshead. The conversation is filled with emotion, as Jane knows that Rochester’s resistance to let her leave is due to him missing her and is caught off guard that Jane does have the option to leave, as up until this moment, he has treated her as his ‘property.’ Jane’s motive for autonomy whilst keeping her integrity, allows her to keep her self-respect, despite the amounts of abuse and deceit she faces across the novel. Rochester’s intentions to find Jane a new placement is an example of one of the obstacles faced by Jane, as Rochester prolongs his goodbye to avoid letting her leave. Throughout ‘Jane Eyre’, Bronte presents Jane with various obstacles such as, St. John, who similar to Rochester is selfish and arrogant, with Bronte providing a point of hypocrisy of religion. St. John’s obsession with religion is excessive, but he uses it in a tyrannical way against Jane which exempts the sincerity of his Christianity entirely. At this part of the novel, we see Jane as a stronger and more together character as she ‘scorn the counterfeit sentiment you offer’ and she ‘scorn your idea of love’ as St. John proposes to her. Bronte’s repetition of the word ‘scorn’ shows Jane’s stand for