Jane Eyre compares to The Eyre Affiar
Lies and Love
The main protagonist from both Jane Eyre and The Eyre Affair both deal with the struggles of achieving honest love with their respective love interest due to the unusual circumstances of the relationships. For Jane, her and Rochester’s relationship is not normal in any sense of the word. For Thursday, the issues she has with Landen are much more realistic, but they sting just the same. Both Jane and Thursday have their fair share of issues with their men, but some of them are not that far off from each other. Quite a few of their relationship problems are the same, however varying in some degree. The want to no longer love but know deep inside you always will, the surprise wife that springs up out of nowhere, and a purposeful distancing because of differences in ideal.
Both Jane and Thursday understand what it feels like to love even though you wish you didn’t. For Jane, she has felt this way about Rochester a few times throughout the book. One of them is when Rochester leaves Thornfield for a few days on business. This where Jane starts to become confused about how she really felt about Rochester, what exactly does she want to happen between the two of them? “I had not intended to love him; the reader knows I had wrought hard to extirpate from my soul the germs of love there detected; and now, at the first renewed view of him, they spontaneously revived, great and strong! He made me love him without looking at me” (Bronte 128). This shows that the feeling are definitely there and, apparently, stronger than ever. This is an example of how Jane’s feelings snuck up on her and that they are not what she intended to happen at all. No matter how much she desires to not feel this way, it is out of her control. Even though she may think that she is able to repress her feelings, they can never truly disappear, they may only be momentarily hidden. For Thursday, her feeling for Landen are there from when the book begins. She has her personal reasons for
The main protagonist from both Jane Eyre and The Eyre Affair both deal with the struggles of achieving honest love with their respective love interest due to the unusual circumstances of the relationships. For Jane, her and Rochester’s relationship is not normal in any sense of the word. For Thursday, the issues she has with Landen are much more realistic, but they sting just the same. Both Jane and Thursday have their fair share of issues with their men, but some of them are not that far off from each other. Quite a few of their relationship problems are the same, however varying in some degree. The want to no longer love but know deep inside you always will, the surprise wife that springs up out of nowhere, and a purposeful distancing because of differences in ideal.
Both Jane and Thursday understand what it feels like to love even though you wish you didn’t. For Jane, she has felt this way about Rochester a few times throughout the book. One of them is when Rochester leaves Thornfield for a few days on business. This where Jane starts to become confused about how she really felt about Rochester, what exactly does she want to happen between the two of them? “I had not intended to love him; the reader knows I had wrought hard to extirpate from my soul the germs of love there detected; and now, at the first renewed view of him, they spontaneously revived, great and strong! He made me love him without looking at me” (Bronte 128). This shows that the feeling are definitely there and, apparently, stronger than ever. This is an example of how Jane’s feelings snuck up on her and that they are not what she intended to happen at all. No matter how much she desires to not feel this way, it is out of her control. Even though she may think that she is able to repress her feelings, they can never truly disappear, they may only be momentarily hidden. For Thursday, her feeling for Landen are there from when the book begins. She has her personal reasons for