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    Dickens‚ and Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte‚ both main characters learn from the mistakes they have made in their life as we see unfold in the end of both novels. Once these characters learn humility‚ light is shown upon the errors of their ways and they can move on with their life. The authors of both novels‚ in turn‚ try to educate the readers so that they do not make the same mistakes as the characters. The authors want their readers not to fall into the same holes that the novels characters have fallen

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    When Jane Eyre becomes a governess at Thornfield Hall‚ she discovers her strength and identity as she experiences love and a new kind of relationship. Jane’s only encounters with male characters prior to her position at Thornfield were with John Reed‚ and Mr. Brocklehurst. Jane hid from and endured her cousin John’s abuses‚ but her anger and fear are what finally lead her to stand up to him. Her punishment in the Red Room transforms her overnight from a child to a more mature person when she realizes

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    This extract from Charlotte Bronte ’s ’Jane Eyre ’ presents a pinnacle moment within the relationship between Jane and Rochester; particularly the spiritual equality that Jane establishes between them in her frank confession‚ thus transcending from his subordinate. While focussing on the this confrontation of Rochester‚ this essay shall consider the extracts place within a chapter whereby nature heavily symbolises Jane ’s true feelings and eventually undercuts the otherwise positive outlook by the

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    Loneliness and Isolation in Jane Eyre In Charlotte Bronte’s novel “Jane Eyre”‚ the eponymous protagonist suffers throughout the plot from loneliness and isolation‚ and these two themes interweave for the duration. Jane’s loneliness and isolation are repeatedly linked to her “physical inferiority”‚ and this phrase is used by Jane to describe herself very early on in the novel. Jane is small‚ underdeveloped‚ pale and timid‚ which often means she finds herself helpless and different to everybody

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    own interesting aspects of virtually the same plot with similar characters. One of the related stories is Jane Eyre by Charlotte Brontë. Brontë uses the main character Jane as Cinderella who finds her prince charming. Even though Jane Eyre contains more about human nature and less of magic‚ it still resembles the Cinderella archetype through Jane’s early life and her relationship with Rochester. This does not‚ however‚ help Jane Eyre‚ but makes it cliché. Jane’s early life can be defined as the

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    Tim Kwist AP English Literature and Composition Quinn April 1‚ 2013 Jane Eyre: AP Question Essay “Writers often highlight the values of a culture or a society by using characters who are alienated from that culture or society because of gender‚ race‚ or creed. Choose a play or novel in which such a character plays a significant role and show how that character’s alienation reveals the surrounding society’s assumptions and moral values.” Women who had no claim to wealth or beauty received

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    Thesis: Jane struggles with balancing her independence and the need for companionship with her relationships with Helen‚ St. John and Rochester Body Paragraph 1: Helen With her relationship with Helen‚ Jane explores her need to be cared for by the world. One example of Jane’s struggle to balance her needs for companionship and independence is especially apparent in her relationship with Helen Burns. When Jane first meets Helen‚ Jane is in desperate need of companionship. Jane never felt companionship

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    serve as a recurring theme placed at the forefront of Charlotte Brontë’s Jane Eyre. The novel uses Jane’s myriad occurrences with various forms of artwork to provide insight into the understanding of the semantics of emotional expression‚ and rather than project art through

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    lived in history. Both the author‚ Charlotte Brontë‚ and her characterJane Eyre‚ represent the “outsider‚” the free spirit struggling for recognition and self-respect in the face of rejection by a class-ridden and gender-oriented society. In the novel‚ the character Jane Eyre is described as a toad‚ being small‚ plain and elfish. In a conversation in chapter three between Mrs. Abbot and Bessie‚ Mrs. Abbot agrees with Bessie that Jane is to be pitied‚ and then goes on to say‚ “if she were a nice

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    In Romeo and Juliet and Jane Eyre we are as the audience presented with an assortment of love difficulties‚ through the use of a variety of literary devices such as sonnets‚ dramatic irony and dialogue‚ used by both William Shakespeare and Charlotte Bronte. To introduce the play a sonnet is used by William Shakespeare as the prologue of Romeo and Juliet. Throughout the prologue the audience is made aware vaguely of the various themes the play will accommodate. The first line‚ “Two households both

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