Jane Eyre Extended Metaphor
Jane Eyre
Caged Bird
Setting: Repression
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Gateshead= She was harassed and treated unjustly by her benefactress and her family.
Lowood= In the beginning she felt repressed by rules, and she was accused of something she did not do
Thornfield= As, she walks down the corridor, she feels repressed by society’s customs
Character Foil: human dignity
-Helen Burns= she is spiritual and sees the good in most everything, but is also very passive
-Blanche Ingram= a beautiful,vain, high class woman who is set on being Rochester’s wife solely for his fortune.
-Mr. Rochester: haughty, moody, mysterious, and sarcastic, he is the head of the Thornfield estate.
Point of View: Independence
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In chapter 3, Jane could not believe that poor people could be kind when they spoke like regular people, but they are uneducated to grow into poor women. She has a strong sense of freedom and triumph that she felt invisible hoping for liberty.
Even though Mr. Rochester is older than Jane, she feels that he does not have the right to be superior, to be superior, he has to exceed in in time and experience. Symbols:Determination
Love of/for someone= Jane love Mr.Rochester. Jane has love for Adele, Helen,
Ms.Temple, and Mrs.Fairfax.
Light and Darkness= Light resembles Jane. Darkness resembles Mr.Rochester
Social Class=Jane is a governess. Mr.Rochester is a wealth business man
External Conflict: Solidarity
John: Jane is harshly abused by her own cousin, John for simply reading a book that belonged to him. He torments
Jane in her own home.
Mrs. Reed: Jane is also unjustly punished and sent to a haunted room by Mrs. Reed for responding to John’s violence. Her biased aunt only worsens the damage that her cousins inflict on her.
Lowood: Even after she escapes her horrible relatives at
Gateshead, Jane is faced with even harsher living conditions at Lowood. Jane must live in the freezing cold, eating only tiny burnt portions of porridge, and with the fear of being humiliated by Mr.
Caged Bird
Setting: Repression
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Gateshead= She was harassed and treated unjustly by her benefactress and her family.
Lowood= In the beginning she felt repressed by rules, and she was accused of something she did not do
Thornfield= As, she walks down the corridor, she feels repressed by society’s customs
Character Foil: human dignity
-Helen Burns= she is spiritual and sees the good in most everything, but is also very passive
-Blanche Ingram= a beautiful,vain, high class woman who is set on being Rochester’s wife solely for his fortune.
-Mr. Rochester: haughty, moody, mysterious, and sarcastic, he is the head of the Thornfield estate.
Point of View: Independence
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In chapter 3, Jane could not believe that poor people could be kind when they spoke like regular people, but they are uneducated to grow into poor women. She has a strong sense of freedom and triumph that she felt invisible hoping for liberty.
Even though Mr. Rochester is older than Jane, she feels that he does not have the right to be superior, to be superior, he has to exceed in in time and experience. Symbols:Determination
Love of/for someone= Jane love Mr.Rochester. Jane has love for Adele, Helen,
Ms.Temple, and Mrs.Fairfax.
Light and Darkness= Light resembles Jane. Darkness resembles Mr.Rochester
Social Class=Jane is a governess. Mr.Rochester is a wealth business man
External Conflict: Solidarity
John: Jane is harshly abused by her own cousin, John for simply reading a book that belonged to him. He torments
Jane in her own home.
Mrs. Reed: Jane is also unjustly punished and sent to a haunted room by Mrs. Reed for responding to John’s violence. Her biased aunt only worsens the damage that her cousins inflict on her.
Lowood: Even after she escapes her horrible relatives at
Gateshead, Jane is faced with even harsher living conditions at Lowood. Jane must live in the freezing cold, eating only tiny burnt portions of porridge, and with the fear of being humiliated by Mr.