Religion In Jane Eyre

Over the course of the novel, Jane has trouble finding the correct balance between her moral duties and earthly pleasures, between obligation to her spirit and attention to her body. She meets three main characters that symbolize different aspects of religion: Mr. Brocklehurst, Helen Burns, and St. John Rivers. Each person represents a part of religion that Jane eventually rejects because she forms her own ideas about her faith.

Mr. Brocklehurst shows the dangers that Charlotte Brontë saw in the nineteenth-century Evangelical development. Mr. Brocklehurst receives the talk of Evangelicalism when he claims to be cleansing his scholars of pride, however his technique for subjecting them to different privations and embarrassments, in the same way as when he requests that the characteristically wavy hair of one of Jane's cohorts be trimmed in order to lie straight, is totally un-Christian. Obviously, Brocklehurst's banishments are troublesome to take after, and his deceptive backing of his own lavishly affluent family at the upkeep of the Lowood people shows Brontë's attentiveness of the Evangelical development. Helen Burns' accommodating and abstaining mode of Christianity, then again, is excessively latent for Jane to embrace as her own, despite the fact that she cherishes and appreciates Helen for it. Numerous parts later, St. John Rivers gives an alternate model of Christian conduct. His is a Christianity of aspiration, brilliance, and great self righteousness. St. John urges Jane to relinquish her passionate deeds for the satisfaction of her ethical obligation, offering her a lifestyle that might oblige her to be traitorous to her own particular self. In spite of the fact that Jane winds up dismissing each of the three models of...

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... fog and fog bound pestilence" (3, 393-394). At the point when Jane enters, Whitcross is a "still, hot, flawless day" and it is depicted in charming terms, yet the individuals that live there demonstrate to have no hearts. Both individuals that Jane thinks about the most (Ms. Temple and Rochester) are portrayed in far distinctive ways than any other individual in the book. Ms. Temple is portrayed as having "refined features" (1, 57). Rochester has a face "more remarkable for character than beauty...his grim mouth, chin and jaw - yes all three were very grim" (3, 365). Rochester asks Jane, "do you think me handsome?" and Jane says "No Sir" (1, 149). Then again, Jane rejected St. John Rivers, and he resembled a "Greek God", however lacked affection for Jane. He just cherished his missionary work.

Works Cited

Brontë, Charlotte. Jane Eyre. London: Penguin Books, 1996.