Jane Eyre

In the novel Jane Eyre, Charlotte Bronte uses Jane Eyre as her base to find out how a character confronts the demands of a private passion that conflicts with her responsibilities. . Mistreated abused and deprived of a normal childhood, Jane Eyre creates an enemy early in her childhood with her Aunt Mrs. Reed. Just as Mrs. Reeds life is coming to an end, she writes to Jane asking her for forgiveness, and one last visit from her.

An example of Jane’s passion is when she is confronted by Mr. Rochester’s proposal to stay with him as Adele’s governess and essentially stay with him to act as his mistress. She asks Rochester if he thinks she is “an automaton?—a machine without feelings?” and if he thinks that because she is “poor, obscure, plain, and a little” that she is “soulless and heartless.” She goes on to say that her “spirit” addresses his spirit and that they are equal. Up to that point, Jane had been riding on a wave of emotion, forgetting all thoughts of reason and logic, replacing God with Mr. Rochester in her eyes, and allowing herself to be swept away in the moment. However, once Jane confronts the reality of her situation, she does everything in her power to refuse Mr. Rocheste...

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Rochester, Jane is forced to evaluate her desire for equality against her desire for love. Jane could either stay at Thornfield to be Mr. Rochester’s mistress, or she could leave to face a life without money, a job, or a home. Ultimately, Jane realizes she must not have any compromise in her beliefs on marriage which in turn means giving up her love for Rochester as she says “I do love you, more than ever: but I must not show or indulge the feeling: and this is the last time I must express it” (Bronte 259). Jane would rather abandon her love than give up control over her own destiny. Rich supports this notion in her article as she states, “Jane’s rebellion against Rochester’s arrogance-for in pleading with her to stay with him against the lows of her own integrity - forces her to act on her own behalf even if it causes him intense suffering, even though she still loves him” (Rich 8). Even before her engagement to Rochester, Jane would repeatedly dismiss lavish gifts from Rochester, as for her to not be dependent upon him. As Rochester attempts to bestow more extravagant gifts upon Jane, she says, “the more he bought me, the more my cheek burned with a sense of annoyance and degradation” (Bronte 229). With each present, Jane can sense her independence decreasing, yet by rejecting his gifts Jane is able to maintain a form of power over Rochester. After leaving Thornfield, Jane arrives at Marsh End, where her self-identity is

Empathy is biased in many ways because connecting can others can seem hard if they are nothing like us. We might try to denying this, but “recent studies have shown

Charlotte Bronte’s Jane Eyre, is the story of Jane, an orphan girl with a harsh upbringing. During a time when women were condemned for learning more than custom pronounced necessary, Jane becomes educated intellectually, socially, and spiritually. In the course of growing up she travels to many places as she battles to learn more about herself and about the world. In the following paragraphs you’ll see how Bronte establishes that money and power do not make a person. Mrs. Reed, Mr. Rochester, and Mr. Brocklehurst all reflect this, they are not nice or perfectly content people. She demonstrates that general education is more important than wealth.

“Nature meant me to be, on the whole a good man Miss Eyre; one of the better end” (Bronte 128). Mr. Rochester is nearly as enigmatic as Bertha for much of Jane Eyre. Impatient, abrupt, brutally candid and very clearly cynical, these are his traits. Yet, in one passage he hints at the man he used to be. “A good man” he says, and one whose mindset paralleled the naïve yet feisty Jane Eryre. “I was your equal at eighteen – quite your equal.” (Bro...

As chapter 18 begins to reach its rising point, with how Jane feels about the relationship between Mr. Rochester and Blanche Ingram. As she begins to notice how Blanche and Mr. Rochester interact with each other, she starts to express her feelings. She says “I have told you reader, that I had learnt to love Mr. Rochester I could not un love him now, merely because I found that he had ceased to notice me-because I saw all the attention appropriated by a great lady.”(pg 188). As a continuation from page 188, going on to page 189,Jane states her reason as to why she feels that they would get married. She says “this obvious absence of passion in his sentiments...

The way in which society tries to live today goes hand in hand with the quote "What really matters is on the inside, not the outside", which is often repeated, maybe because people want everyone to feel equal and no one inferior or maybe because a person just wants to feel better about his or herself so this statement is said. The story "Jane Eyre" completely contradicts this quote, especially during the social extravaganza, which was put on by Mr. Rochester and the Thornfield workers. The main goal during the era in which the book "Jane Eyre" took place was to be wealthy so you could be a part of all the so called finer things in life such as nice clothing, jewelry, money, large mansions, and so on. The social extravaganza which took place at Mr. Rochester's mansion contributed to the meaning of the book by helping explain the characters, setting, and plot of the story "Jane Eyre".

There is an ongoing discussion of whether empathy is cognitive or affective. Cognitive empathy is associated with understanding another's emotional state, while affecting empathy is the ability to share this state (Eisenberg and Strayer, 1987). More recent definitions hold the view that empathy is a combination of both components (Mehrabian and Eipstein,1972; Daly and Morton,2003; Alterman et al 2003). Therefore, empathy can be defined as the process of accurately recognizing, comprehending and sharing another person's feelings ( Decety, 2011).

In the outstanding novel of Jane Eyre by Charlotte Brontë, the story is told of a romantic heroine named Jane Eyre who pursued independence during an era in which women were inferior to men. Jane proved her independence by demanding self-respect, becoming socially independent, and pursuing true love based on equality.

Charlotte Bronte’s Jane Eyre chronicles the growth of her titular character from girlhood to maturity, focusing on her journey from dependence on negative authority figures to both monetary and psychological independence, from confusion to a clear understanding of self, and from inequality to equality with those to whom she was formerly subject. Originally dependent on her Aunt Reed, Mr. Brocklehurst, and Mr. Rochester, she gains independence through her inheritance and teaching positions. Over the course of the novel, she awakens towards self-understanding, resulting in contentment and eventual happiness. She also achieves equality with the important masculine figures in her life, such as St. John Rivers and Mr. Rochester, gaining self-fulfillment as an independent, fully developed equal.

Because Jane is the narrator, the reader is given a biased point of view that St. John’s character is unfavorable. Throughout Jane’s life she has had oppressive male figures dominate her life, such as John Reed and Mr. Brocklehurst; thus, Jane can conditioned herself to be apprehensive when confronting men. After gaining her physical and emotional strength back, Jane studies St. John’s character. Jane’s first impression of St. John is pessimistic, she states “Had he been a statue instead of a man, he could not have been easier”(Bronte 329). By comparing St. John to a statue the reader is forced to see St. John as someone who is cold and rigid. Jane sets up the perception that St.John is disconnected from human feelings. Jane also presents a biased view of men when she first meets Rochester, who later becomes her husband. Furthermore, Jane’s first impressions of Rochester are also negative. Upon first being introduced to Rochester, after he asked to see her, Jane comments, “But it appeared he was not in the mood to notice us, for he never lifted his head as we approached. . . There was something in the forced stiffed bow, in the impatient yet formal tone, which he seemed to further expresses”(Bronte 111). Upon meeting Rochester for the fir...