Jane Eyre by Charlotte Brontë was first published on October 16, 1847 by Smith, Elder & Co. in London, England. It was later republished by Barnes and Noble in 2011. The story follows none other than Jane Eyre herself as she tells her riveting tale of lies, deceit, passion, and love. From the earliest years of her childhood, Jane is put through many trials and tribulations that end up dictating the way she behaves when she grows older. Although she does not handle the situations in the best way as a child, she finds ways to correct the wrongs she has committed when she becomes a more mature adult. Throughout the course of the novel, Jane Eyre develops drastically as a character, and she matures exponentially as she grows older. When Jane’s …show more content…
Though it is clear that Jane begins to have feelings for Rochester not long after meeting him, she is able to handle the situations she is put in when she is romantically involved with him. First, she refuses to marry him until she is sure that Blanche is not romantically involved with Rochester in any way. Second, when she finds out about Rochester’s wife and he begs her to run away with him, she refuses because of the fact that she has respect for herself and she know that it is the wrong thing to do. In this instance, Jane displays a great amount of emotional maturity. She could have very well decided to become Rochester’s mistress and run away with him. But because she respect herself, and because she does possess that emotional maturity, she does not allow herself to do so. Rochester is not the only suitor with which Jane displays emotional maturity. After Jane runs away from Thornfield and Rochester, she meets St. John Rivers and his sisters. After spending some time with the trio, Jane feels herself becoming comfortable. Eventually, St. John Rivers urges Jane to marry him and to accompany him on a mission trip as his wife. Although Jane finds herself tempted, she does not allow herself to accept because she wants to be her own person, and she knows that she could never love him in a romantic way. This is just another example of how much Jane grew up over the course of her …show more content…
Learning to make educated decisions that would be the best for the people is something that is not easily learned by many. Jane Eyre is one of the few that learned at a very young age to let go of hate, resentment, and grudges so that she could grow up to be a mature, emotionally stable adult. Though she did eventually come to be that mature adult, she had to go through several life experiences that led her to gain more maturity. Because of these life experiences, Jane develops into an entirely new person in just the course of a few years. More importantly, Jane was able to come to terms with who she was and what kind of life she wanted for
Jane Eyre is about a girl named Jane who struggles to find who she really is and with it what she really wants. “As a model for women readers in the Victorian period and throughout the twentieth century to follow, Jane Eyre encouraged them to make their own choices in living their lives, to develop respect for themselves, and to become individuals” (Markley). One of the reasons why this book gained merit was because of its striking presence within its time period. During the “Victorian Age” woman did not have much say in society, so this novel broke boundaries to societal norms that restricted woman from things they have today. “Brontë is able to enact this tension through her characters and thus show dramatically the journey of a woman striving for balance within her nature. A novel creates its own internal world through the language that it uses, and this fictional world may be quite independent from the real physical world in which we live” (Johnson). Bronte creates another world through her enlightening form of writing that has the reader connected to the novel as much as Riordan has on the readers in The Lightning Thief. “Reader, I married him” (Bronte 457). This line from the novel is one of the most iconic lines in literature because after all the terrible things she had to endure, Jane finally
Brontë, Charlotte, Fritz Eichenberg, and Bruce Rogers. Jane Eyre. New York: Random House, 1943. Print.
...eceive a fine education that would not cause the aforementioned problem. The resilient and spirited Jane Eyre knew that the world say her as unconventional but was not perturbed because she truly felt that if anyone stood at God’s feet with her, that they would be equal in importance and therefore should have equal rights.
Charlotte Brontë's novel Jane Eyre, published in 1847, is an archetype of the 1840s novel. It tells the story of Jane Eyre, an orphan who eventually finds herself and happiness as a governess and, later, a wife. Although this is a "personal" story that provides escape and entertainment for its readers, Jane Eyre most certainly, if some...
continue to fluctuate as she matures. Jane Eyre begins her life in the wrong place at the wrong
After witnessing Helen easily endure a punishment, Jane asks her how it is possible to bear a punishment without fighting back (56-58). In response, Helen gives Jane her first lesson in religion, explaining that “it is not violence that best overcomes hate- nor vengeance that most certainly heals injury”, love is the way to peace (58). Helen’s words have a profound impact on Jane, causing her to begin to see the world as a place for forgiveness, not ardent hatred, and she begins to grow from an unruly child into a Victorian woman. When, in chapter 10, Jane is finally ready to leave the Lowood School as a governess, the transformation that Helen was a catalyst to is complete, and Jane is no longer the passionate child she once was (88). Jane’s decision to become a governess reveals her Victorian fate, and she leaves Lowood a proper, Victorian woman, a complete foil of the unruly child she was when she entered Lowood. Thus, with the help of Helen Burns, the title character in Charlotte Bronte’s Jane Eyre grows from an unruly child into a true Victorian woman and enters the real world, ready to face the everyday trials of a
Jane Eyre is the perfect novel about maturing: a child who is treated cruelly holds herself together and learns to steer her life forward with a driving conscience that keeps her life within personally felt moral bounds. I found Jane as a child to be quite adult-like: she battles it out conversationally with Mrs. Reed on an adult level right from the beginning of the book. The hardship in her childhood makes her extreme need for moral correctness believable. For instance, knowing her righteous stubborness as a child, we can believe that she would later leave Rochester altogether rather than living a life of love and luxury simply by overlooking a legal technicality concerning his previous marriage to a mad woman. Her childhood and her adult life are harmonious which gives the reader the sense of a complete and believable character.
...would have to sacrifice her passion for the sake of religious duty. On the other hand with Rochester, Jane would be forced to sacrifice her morality for the sake of her passion whilst Bertha was alive. When she heard of Bertha’s death she realised that with Rochester she could live a happy life full of love. Rochester and St John Rivers both have passion, Rochester’s is a passion for his love of Jane whereas St John Rivers is a passion for his work as a missionary, and he allows this passion to quell his love for Miss Oliver. St John Rivers is prepared to come to love Jane over time; however this is a sign of his lack of passion while Rochester truly loves Jane despite their differences, and his love for her is true love. For Jane it is a choice between a marriage of passion and a marriage of practicality, for Jane it is her passion and heart that eventually wins.
It is human nature to desire freedom and yearn passion, yet it is also human nature to obtain acceptance and follow reason. It is a never ending battle between passion and reason; without reason there is no acceptance, without passion there is no freedom. In Charlotte Bronte's Jane Eyre, Jane strongly struggles between passion and reason. Though Jane loves Mr. Rochester, her employer at Thornfield Hall, she has certain values to uphold in order to conform with society. Jane does not let her affections overtake her morality, though her return to Mr. Rochester proves passion to be stronger than reason.
In the novel Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte the audience sees how Jane develops as a character after each obstacle she encounters. At a very young age Jane 's parents died and her uncle takes her in, but when he dies her aunt has to take care of her and instead of being cared for she gets mistreated by her cousins and later on she loses her best friend. Also, she gets humiliated in front of her classmates. Then Jane develops into a young lady and she finds love for the first time with Mr. Rochester and soon she gets her heart broken by him and she chooses to leave to escape her life. Once she leaves she struggles throughout her journey to only go back to her first love where she makes a family with him and takes care of him.
In Charlotte Brontë’s Jane Eyre, it was love, and not age or education, that led Jane to mature and grow as a person. With the help of Helen Burns and Miss. Temple, Jane Eyre learned what it meant to love someone. Both these people influenced Jane to mature into a young lady by showing Jane their love and affection. When Jane left Lowood to become a governess, she met the love of her life, Mr. Rochester. With his love, Jane Eyre eventually matured fully and grew into a self-sufficient woman and left the hatred and anger behind.
Jane Eyre was an orphan left to depend on unsympathetic relatives who mistreated her. As Millicent bell explains in her article “A Tale of the Governess,” “With the Reeds she suffers not only the dependency of childhood and female hood, but the excruciating humiliation of the poor relation.” The cruel treatment she received from her family members caused her to have no sense of belonging.
Jane Eyre is a classic English novel which follows the development of a young woman in the mid 1800's. Jane grows to be a smart, self supporting, independent woman. This becomes a struggle for her as she was brought up to live in the lower-class. Throughout this novel, Jane tries to show that class and gender should not affect personality. This novel explains Jane’s struggle against societal expectations of class and of gender.
Jane's true love for Roshester becomes appearant during her walks with him at Thornfield. Jane is affected by him so much that "[her] blanks of existance were filled up; [her] bodily health improved; [she] gathered flesh and strenght" (160). She felt like his "presence in a room was more cheering than the brightest fire" (166). When Blanche - a new woman in Rochester's life - came along, Jane began to grow jelous, which reveals how much she actually really loves Rochester. She begins to hate herself saying "he is not of your order: keep to your caste, and be too self-respecting to lavish the love of the whole heart, soul, and strength, where such a gift is not wanted and would be despised (184). With the presence of Blanche, Jane begins pointing out her insuficiencies and the things she hates about herself. This clearly expresses jelousy, and how much she is actually in love with Rochester.
Bronte’s Jane Eyre is brimming with feminist ideology rebuking Victorian-Era gender-roll ethics and ideals. As a creative, independent woman with a strong personality and will growing up during this period of female repression, Bronte wrote Jane Eyre as a feminist message to society. She criticizes the average, servile, ignorant Victorian woman, and praises a more assertive, independent, and strong one. She does this through her protagonist Jane, who embodies all of Bronte’s ideal feminine characteristics. She is a strong woman, both mentally and physically, who seeks independence and is in search of individuality, honesty, and above all equality both in marriage and in society in a world that does not acknowledge women as individuals.