Overview: Jane Eyre by Charlott Brontё

Jane is the main character of the novel Jane Eyre. She is presented as a sensitive, passionate, intelligent and a reflective girl. From the very childhood, she is aware of her social status as an outsider. She remains lonely in her childhood and observes keenly the behavior of people. She limits herself to the books. When the injustice and pain of abuse crossed it limits, Jane act in response spontaneously. At Gateshead, she lashes out on John Reed and her aunt for their cruel behavior with her. The main theme in the novel is about the Jane’s search for the family, for the feeling of belonging and love although; the search is related to her need of independence. The novel starts with the unloved orphan who is obsessed because of the search of love in order to manage her life and make her identity. She does not get any parental love from Mrs. Reed. However, Bessie, Miss Temple, and even Mrs. Fairfax give her appropriate attention and love and as well as guidance that she needed most. Because of their care, Jane provides care for Adèle and the students at her school. Even all this, she does not feel that she has true loving family until the time she falls in love with Mr. Rochester at Thornfield. At first, she rejects the marriage proposal of Mr. Rochester’s because she understands that their marriage will be based on unequal social status, wealth and poverty differences. The novel also portrays a certain perspective based on men opinion and taste of women based on class where the high class men developed slight veneration to women from the lower social class. Men are termed as the sole managing figure of the relationship with women having minimal or no decision to make regarding the trend of the relationship

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...ip for the two years as Rochester also failed to notice the occurrence of their relationship acted as the defining aspect on the course of their relationship. This is emphasized by Jane on (Ch. 30 -439) where she writes that whoever Rochester saw on the vision upon their first encounter she still remains the one. She continues to recall the words that he told her on their first dates that she was the apple of his eye and the nature that he saw and reflected on the course of nature such as the trees, rivers and clouds to be the same man that she deserved and dreamt of ever loving.

Works Cited

Brontё, Charlott. (2001). Jane Eyre Norton Critical Edition. University Of Washington
Fraser, Rebecca.(1988). Charlotte Brontë. London: Methuen.
Hoeveler, Diane Long, and Beth Lau, eds. (1993). Approaches to Teaching Brontë's Jane Eyre. New York:Modern Language Association.