of life amidst its perils.” (101 An adult Jane Eyre narrates this passage on the afternoon of Miss Temple’s wedding‚ after she has left Lowood for her honeymoon. Jane is eighteen years old‚ and teaches at the school. In this passage‚ Jane reflects on her present situation‚ and begins to realize that she has reached a forked road. Although Jane knows that she will miss Miss Temple‚ a role model and significant influence on Jane’s adolescence‚ Jane believes that the peace created around her is
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Charlotte Bronte’s novel Jane Eyre explores one woman’s life in 19th century England. Jane lives in a society whose culture is shallow and apathetic to virtue. Even though she is exemplary in character and intellect‚ these attributes are forgotten in place of class and beauty. Jane struggles with the harsh judgment she faces for being poor and conventionally unattractive. Jane departs from Victorian ideals and argues that equality must supersede gender roles and conditions of one’s birth. Phyllis
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Journey of Self Discovery Self discovery was a process I thought I had already been through. But when faced with the question‚ “Who am I?” it proved to be a lot harder to put into words than one would think. I believe that I have a good sense of who I am‚ but translating it into words was a struggle for me. I consider myself to be a very concrete thinker. So‚ the translation of who I am into words tended to come out as cold and rigid. Words like brash‚ concrete‚ smart‚ and loyal seemed like
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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
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A Journey of Self-Discovery and Self-Initiation What is identity and how is it that we are socially defined by this one word? This term is so much more complex than the simple idea people give to it‚ the idea that identity is what makes us who we are. Individuals are made of what makes them themselves‚ nothing else. Our values‚ ideas‚ and beliefs make us who we are. Certain factors that also make a person who they are usually include their families‚ cultures‚ and people that they associate with
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Jane Eyre By Charlotte Bronte Published 1847 Note: These are discussion and essay questions that I have collected over the years. Reading them now is simply to help support idea-making for the Harkness Discussion. You may use them at any time as needed (of course‚ I reserve the right to actually use them as essay question (-: ). 1. Central to Jane Eyre’s struggle for fulfillment is her ambition to transcend the limits placed upon women in Victorian society. How does Jane navigate the gap between
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In the novel Jane Eyre‚ by Charlotte Bronte‚ the main protagonist‚ Jane experiences a lot of tribulations in life. When she thinks she can lead a happy life with her lover‚ Mr. Edward Rochester‚ she finds out that he is‚ in fact‚ hiding a dark secret. On the day of their wedding‚ she discovers that he is already married. Her beliefs and moral standing leads her to leave Mr. Rochester and Thornfield‚ her safe haven‚ because she does not want to partake in Mr. Rochester’s infidelity to Bertha Mason
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are for ever sundered: – and yet‚ while I breathe and think I must love him." (2.2.85) Seeing Rochester among his high-class houseguests‚ Jane realizes that he has more in common with her than he does with them. Despite Jane’s and Rochester’s different class backgrounds‚ their master-servant relationship‚ and the strict gender roles of Victorian society‚ Jane
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Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte is a sophisticated and renowned Gothic romance novel. Its plot has many unconventional twists and turns and‚ although the novel has been widely accepted and appreciated in the world of classic literature‚ it has also had its share of controversy. From the beginning of the novel‚ it becomes clear that it does not perhaps preach the same religious values as other books written during its time (the 1800s)‚ and some have taken the view that this aspect of the book is
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Apology for Poetry Occasion The Apology was provoked by the Puritanical attack on poesy by Stephen Gosson’s 1579 The Schoole of Abuse “having slipped into the title of a poet‚ am provoked to say something unto you in the defence of that my unelected vocation” 326 “And first‚ truly‚ to all them that‚ professing learning‚ inveigh against poetry‚ may justly be objected that they go very near to ungratefulness to seek to deface that which‚ in the noblest nations and languages that are known‚ hath
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