the greatest allusion that one sees in charlotte brontes jane eyre is that of cinderella. as a girl who is orphaned and has to live with her step sisters and step mother that do not like cinderella jane eyre is forced to live with mrs reed who despises her and later mrs brockelhurst. this allusion further amplifies the story and meaning of the passage as it shows that true love conquers all. the story of jane eyre is one of a great fairy tale that resembles cinderella as when cinderella was nothing more than a servent to her step mother jane eyre was nothing more than a governess to sir rochester yet rochester fell in love with jane eyre as she was different from all the other girls just like prince charming fell in love with…
“‘I could bend her with my finger and thumb: and what good would it do if I bent, if I uptore, if I crushed her? Consider that eye: consider the resolute, wild, free things looking out of it, defying me, with more than courage—with a stern triumph. Whatever I do with its cage, I cannot get at it—the savage, beautiful creature! If I tear, if I rend the slight prison, my outrage will only let the captive loose. Conqueror I might be of the house; but the inmate would escape to heaven before I could call myself of its clay dwelling-place. And it is you, spirit—with will and energy, and virtue and purity—that I want: not alone your brittle frame. Of yourself you could come with soft flight and nestle against my heart, if you would: seized against…
Charlotte Bronte’s Jane Eyre tells the story of Jane’s growth and development as she searches for a meaningful existence in society. Author Faith McKay said, “No matter what your family happens to be like…it affects who you are. It matters.” Jane is an orphan, forced to battle a cruel guardian, a patriarchal society, and a rigid social order. (Anderson, “Identity and Independence in Jane Eyre”) Jane has concrete beliefs in what women deserve, as well as obtainable goals for how she imagines her place in society as a woman (Lewkowicz, “The Experience of Womanhood in Jane Eyre”) and with self-growth, Jane Eyre was able to define herself as well as equip herself with wisdom and…
Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Bronte 1847, is a novel to which human experience and self-determination is prominent. Bronte writes with such lyrical momentum, carrying the reader throughout the novel and allowing them to get a sense of her human experience to which her resilience is evident. The significance of resilience is conveyed throughout the novel repetitively and through the thorough form of Bildungsroman. There is an emphasis on Social Status, Love and the motif of nature and dualities used by Bronte to express the notion of Human experience, informing and leading the audience on a journey throughout the novel. By exploring these key area’s of the novel, Bronte directs and evolves an interpretation that can then appreciate the portrayal of human experience and reinforce the significance of resilience.…
The main way that Charlotte Brontë creates sympathy for Jane Eyre is by telling the story through her. We see everything from her point of view. The effect is that, even if we see her behaving in a way we do not like, we understand why she behaves as she does, and share her feelings.…
While reading this book, the reader may pity Jane. Charlotte Bronte creates a consistent thread until the end of the book. Jane struggles with the same problem throughout the work, which is betrayal. She deals with it a place that was supposed to be her home, school and the work place.…
Charlotte Bronte’s Jane Eyre illustrates the significance of self-respect, confidence, and integrity in overcoming several predicaments. Bronte portrays this through Jane, who possesses both a sense of self-worth and dignity, which are continually tested and depicted throughout the novel. These attributes are illustrated when she refuses St. John’s hand in marriage, leaves Rochester after discovering his secret that he is married, and when she bravely stands up to Mrs. Reed.…
Love, morality, and determination are tested to its farthest limits in Charlotte Brontë’s classic Victorian novel, Jane Eyre, due to several situations and characters. One character in particular, Bertha Mason, is an eminently unrealistic character yet she can be considered one of the more capital characters that influences other much more plausible elements and actions in the story, especially those of Jane Eyre and Edward Rochester. Bertha Mason, an insane and overly aggressive wife that Rochester had hidden away for many years in his attic, was just one of the boundaries Jane Eyre and Rochester had to overpass, but possibly the most important. She creates many awkward and unrealistic actions in the story that consequently make her, as a whole, an unrealistic character.…
From Penny Dreadful magazines to German Schauerroman, Gothic themes, popularized in the Victorian era, saturated Romantic literature with tales of gore and spine-shivering madness. Among the plethora of authors experimenting with this genre was Charlotte Brontë, whose groundbreaking novel, Jane Eyre, forever changed Gothic literature. Indeed, the grandiose but desolate buildings and English gardens thick fog furnishing the Victorian England landscape exhibits all the signs of a proper Gothic setting. However, Brontë distinguishes her novel with one brilliant twist: it is narrated by a female protagonist. Jane Eyre explores the titular Jane's coming of age story, and her struggle to conquer society's patronizing impositions on women.…
Throughout Jane Eyre Charlotte Brontë uses the character Jane as a tool to comment on the oppression that women were forced to endure at the time. Jane can be seen as representative of the women who suffered from repression during the Victorian period, a time when patriarchy was commonplace. Brontë herself was affected by the time period, because according to Wolfe, she was deprived “experience and intercourse and travel.” (70) Thus Jane offers a unique perspective as a woman who is both keenly aware of her position and yet trapped by it despite repeated attempts to elevate herself and escape the burden placed on by her different suitors. Although superficially it seems that Jane wants to break away from the relationships that further suppress her, in actuality she is content to remain subservient. Rather the main conflict of the novel is Jane’s repeated attempts to reconcile her moral code with her societal obligations.…
Charlotte Bronte communicates controversial values in Jane Eyre, which demonstrate her beliefs about women’s feelings and emotions as well as their role in society and in relationships. Bronte also shows her perspectives on values of religion and morality. These values have evoked passionate debate and controversy both in the Victorian period of the 19th century and today in the 21st century.…
Published in 1847, under the pseudonym Currer Bell, Jane Eyre, is “ one of the most widely read of English novels.” Written by Charlotte Bronte, this novel made a major impact on the Victorian reading public, as well as today’s viewing public. With about thirteen television and film adaptations, it is not surprising that Jane Eyre is one of the most filmed novels. Unlike most books of its time, Jane Eyre took its readers on a journey into the restricted life of women living in the nineteenth century. For certain, these nineteenth century women were dominated by the overbearing men of their time. Thought to be submissive and unreasoning, women were expected to allow the men in their lives to make all decisions. In this novel, Jane Eyre, an orphan, applies the education and tools she gained throughout her life of struggle to become a strong, independent woman. Along the way, Jane repeatedly faces alienation from society, yet works to find happiness for herself. Through this, it is evident that Bronte conveys an alienation theme by exhibiting Jane’s isolation from society, and Jane’s struggle to find a place in the social hierarchy.…
Jane is hesitant and lonesome in the beginning of the novel and has difficulty feeling comfortable and indifferent around people. For example, while Jane spends time in the Reed household, she remarks, “To speak truth, I had not least wish to go into company, for in company I was rarely noticed” (Bronte 24). Jane’s parents died when she was young and as a result she became an orphan. As an orphan, she feels disrespected and unfairly treated by the Reed family. Furthermore, she does not feel like she belongs with the family, often feeling that she is unnoticed by them. As a result, she dislikes the family and avoids spending time with them at all costs. In addition, when Mr. Brocklehurst asks his family, teachers, and the children to look at Jane, Jane claims that she "felt their eyes directed like burning-glasses against my scorched skin” (60). In company of Jane’s teachers and classmates she is ridiculed and embarrassed. As a result, while her peers stare at her judgmentally, feelings of…
In the novel Jane Eyre, charlotte Bronte displays the different stages of maturity an individual goes through from childhood to when they become an adult. Bronte shows this idea of maturity clearly in Jane Eyre character. Jane Eyre is a dynamic character as throughout the novel she changes her decisions and ideas according to the situations she faces. Jane’s action and decision making in the novel demonstrates the growth in her maturity from a rude wilful child to an ambitious young lady and how she struggles to overcome the class and social conflicts at each stage of her life as moves from Gateshead to Lowood and finally to Thronfield.…
The Romantic Era was defined by a newfound freedom in art, music, and life in general. Unlike the Classical Era before it, the era of Shakespeare and The Scarlett Letter, Romanticism gave birth to novels like Wuthering Heights, Dracula, and Jane Eyre. Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte is the quintessential Romantic Novel. It exhibits themes of love, nature, and the ideal Romantic, otherwise known as the Byronic, Hero. Bronte uses these themes to describe intricate settings, passionate love, and the dark, brooding, Byronic Hero.…