Sympathy for Jane Charlotte Bronte's Jane Eyre

Sympathy for Jane Charlotte Bronte's Jane Eyre

In the first two chapters of Jane Eyre, Charlotte Bronte creates

sympathy for Jane from the settings she uses like the red room, which

comes up later in chapter two. Also with all the metaphors of Janes

true feelings under the surface and the ways that the chapters are

structured.

Charlotte Bronte starts off the book straight to the point as if we

just enter Janes mind at this moment in time, it is meant to draw the

reader in and at once create the atmosphere of this time when we have

joined her. With the 'clouds so sombre' and the 'rain so penetrating'

we get a glimpse inside Jane knowing that she must be so 'cold' inside

like the 'winter'. While there is a fire inside the house where she

could get warmth to fill her up she is not allowed, and with a

'saddened' 'heart' she's not even told why she can't sit with the

family around their 'mamma' by the fire but instead 'dispensed from

joining the group' and not told why.

This helps create sympathy for Jane by trying to show the reader that

she is a 'deprived' child, and the only escape she gets is when she

goes to the 'window - seat' and shuts the 'folds of scarlet drapery'.

But still she now feels protected, but not yet separated until she

reads her books. The weather once again bears it face to show us that

Jane still is not happy with 'a pale blank mist and cloud' and

'ceaseless rain' which could be the tears of frustration which we must

feel she has to hold back to never show any signs of weakness or hurt

to Mrs Reed or her children especially John who steps into the book in

a while.

The book begins to resemble a gothic genre with its 'stormy'

atmosphere and the 'phantoms' around 'the quite solit...

... middle of paper ...

...k and locked' her 'in without further parley.' And

then 'unconsciousness closed the scene.' Which is another dramatic

ending leaving the reader feeling angry with Mrs Reed and sympathizing

greatly with Jane.

I think Charlotte Bronte has done a good job of getting the reader to

sympathize with Jane otherwise I wouldn't be writing an essay on it.

She constantly brings in Jane's place in society, a woman's place but

to make it worse a poor woman's place. The first two chapters let us

know that this is the beginning of a journey for Jane to find her

place to find out why she was put there to fight against the waves

that try to bring her down. Charlotte Bronte was a critic of her time

and has done a very good job of opening closed minds to the things

that an ordinary plain girl like Jane which is inside every woman has

to fight against to find their place.