Jane Eyre Changes
“Just when I think I have learned the way to live, life changes” Hugh Prather. Life can be both brilliant and torture, sometimes at the same time, and we must learn to roll with the punches. In the graphic novel version of Jane Eyre by Charlotte Brontë, Jane learns how to deal with her tragic life but also to love and forgive. The character Jane Eyre goes through changes in her life at every flip or a page. The common underlying message declares that not everything in life is handed to you, that instead one must reach and strive to reach greatness. Shown in the novel through the dark undertones and seasonal environment shifts, that life is not all sunshine, in fact there rarely is sunlight drawn, and when there is, Jane has worked her hardest
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Jane Eyre is characterized as a bitter child which helps to show the overall theme of abuse throughout this section. Jane’s bitter attitude directly relates to the abuse relayed in the first section as she is only bitter to the people in her life who treat her as inferior. From the treatment she endured, Jane had a very hostile living environment in which she would fight with her aunt and cousins and lived in sorrow because of the isolation she felt. A prime example of the hostile environment in which Jane lived is when she got into fights with John. Even though Jane endured John hitting her, she fought back with her words calling him a “wicked and cruel boy! ... like a murderer, a slave-driver” (page 11). In essence, Jane’s words reveal a lot about her character like how resentful she is to the family and with her biting words, it parallels both the bitter mood and hostile tone. Jane’s own attitude and actions parallel the hostile environment and bitter moods relating into the abusive theme because the abuse and mistreatment is caused by all the anger and resentment running through the house. In the quote it actually blatantly shows anger and resentment upon being abused, and Jane’s words only feed into the hate. Her bitter words pile onto the anger and hatred and feed into the theme that abusive behavior is learned and developed. The first section of Jane Eyre was shrouded in darkness and despair shown through the endless cycle of hate leading to abuse, and how hard it can be to see the light in these dark
Jane Eyre is characterized as a bitter child which helps to show the overall theme of abuse throughout this section. Jane’s bitter attitude directly relates to the abuse relayed in the first section as she is only bitter to the people in her life who treat her as inferior. From the treatment she endured, Jane had a very hostile living environment in which she would fight with her aunt and cousins and lived in sorrow because of the isolation she felt. A prime example of the hostile environment in which Jane lived is when she got into fights with John. Even though Jane endured John hitting her, she fought back with her words calling him a “wicked and cruel boy! ... like a murderer, a slave-driver” (page 11). In essence, Jane’s words reveal a lot about her character like how resentful she is to the family and with her biting words, it parallels both the bitter mood and hostile tone. Jane’s own attitude and actions parallel the hostile environment and bitter moods relating into the abusive theme because the abuse and mistreatment is caused by all the anger and resentment running through the house. In the quote it actually blatantly shows anger and resentment upon being abused, and Jane’s words only feed into the hate. Her bitter words pile onto the anger and hatred and feed into the theme that abusive behavior is learned and developed. The first section of Jane Eyre was shrouded in darkness and despair shown through the endless cycle of hate leading to abuse, and how hard it can be to see the light in these dark