* Jane Eyre: The protagonist of the novel and the title character. Orphaned as a baby‚ she struggles through her nearly loveless childhood and becomes governess at Thornfield Hall. Jane is passionate and opinionated‚ and values freedom and independence. She also has a strong conscience and is a determined Christian. * John Reed: Jane’s cousin‚ who as a child bullies Jane constantly‚ sometimes in his mother’s presence. He ruins himself as an adult by drinking and gambling and is thought to have
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Jane Eyre‚ as the eponymous character‚ has become closer and better known to us than to any familial member or friend. Because of this we understand the way she writes‚ and subsequently how she views her own new environment. Her vivid descriptions and powerful imagery remind us of where her imagination (more spirited than that of any other child) originated in the time spent engaged in Bewick’s ‘History of British Birds’‚ her only form of escapism from the dreary conditions at Gateshead Hall. So
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novel verges on turning into something else‚ like poetry or drama. In Wuthering Heights‚ realism in presenting Yorkshire landscape and life and the historical precision of season‚ dates‚ and hours co-exist with the dreamlike and the unhistorical; Brontë refuses to be confined by conventional classifications. The protagonists’ wanderings are motivated by flight from previously-chosen goals‚ so that often there is a pattern of escape and pursuit. Consider Catherine’s marriage for social position‚
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Jane Eyre falls in love with Mr. Rochester because of her attraction to Mr. Rochester’s byronic traits. Jane lost her parents and was raised by her Uncle Reed. When her Uncle died‚ she was treated poorly by her Aunt and kids. She was finally sent to a boarding school known as Lowood. It is an all girls school that had a massive typhus epidemic‚ killing her friend. After teaching and learning at Lowood‚ she became a governess for Adelé at Thornfield. There she meets her master Mr. Rochester. The byronic
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Throughout the course of this essay I will be examining an extract from the second chapter of Charlotte Bront¸’s ’Jane Eyre’ in which Jane finds herself locked in the Red Room. I will be looking closely at the relevance of this passage to the structure of the novel overall‚ paying close attention to the narrative devices used. The novel is a fictional autobiography comprising a first-person narrative‚ which allows the reader to see events and characters through Jane’s eyes‚ and therefore increases
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The novel‚ Jane Eyre‚ describes the transformation from childhood to adulthood of an orphaned girl named Jane. Bertha Mason‚ is portrayed as the alter ego of the orphaned girl‚ Jane Eyre. This statement could be interrupted in many ways. One being-for an example- Bertha being a symbol and representation of Jane’s feeling in regard to the situation of her marrying Rochester. Another is some likeliness of both women’s actions. Jane Eyre may feel as if the matter of marriage is oppressing her. The
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from this‚ one of the greatest proofs of how important friendship is was depicted between Charlotte and Wilbur. Without Charlotte’s help‚ Wilbur would be butchered in the slaughterhouse. In addition‚ it is exhibited in the story‚ that even though Charlotte’s life was nearing its end‚ she still thought of helping Wilbur‚ together with Templeton‚ in the fair to provide moral support for her friend. Although Charlotte passed away in the end‚ her life became more meaningful and happier by helping Wilbur
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Chapter 20 of Jane Eyre Jane Eyre‚ although not a gothic novel in the traditional sense of the world‚ most definitely contains elements and symbols of a gothic nature. Chapter 20 is the culmination of all the gothic symbols reference throughout the book up until this chapter‚ and in it we see the use of the moon‚ blood‚ animalistic symbolism‚ religious themes‚ and the language used within the chapter. Firstly‚ the moon. The moon is a predominant feature of this chapter of Jane Eyre‚ but also features
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end of year showcase‚ Brontë: The life and the literature. The plays performed within the showcase will be Brontë and Jane Eyre. The two plays were chosen because Brontë explores the lives of the Brontë sisters and mentions their literally achievements and Jane Eyre‚ written by Charlotte Brontë (adapted by Polly Teale)‚ explores the struggle of a woman choosing between her head and heart‚ a pressure felt by all the Brontë sisters. I play the character of Anne Brontë in Brontë by Polly Teale. Polly
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24 January 2012 Pro-social Behaviour in Brontë’s Jane Eyre and Eliot’s Middlemarch “Sacrifice is an act of giving that is necessarily reciprocated‚” says Marcel Mauss in his work The Gift (21)‚ emphasizing the fact that the gift is never free and has to be repaid. While both Jane and Dorothea‚ the main characters of two great Victorian novels‚ made their kinds of sacrifice‚ it can be concluded that those sacrifices arose from two different causes. Pro-social behaviour or “set of actions that
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