Despite the fact that they both loved each other, somehow they still found ways to annoy one another in ways that seem completely unnecessary. Heathcliff’s plan to make everyone miserable was working to an extent until his lover catherine died. After her death, Heathcliff became vulnerable and he felt as if his life no longer had any purpose. Yet somehow he still found the will to keep hurting others including his own son Linton and his deceased lover’s daughter Cathy. But soon after that, he still wasn’t feeling satisfied by what he had…
Society is always faced with alarming situations. The traits and qualities of the people within these societies are contributing factors to overcoming the spine-chilling events. In the story of Jane Eyre, when a person's life is affected in a negative way it takes strength and resilience to rebound to positivity comparable to the recent real life situations of the survivors in the Paris Attack, written about in “Paris Responds to Tragedy with Silent Respect and Defiance” by Peter Wilkinson and Ralph Ellis. Furthermore in Jane Eyre, Jane is forced to live through isolation and alienation. The recently elected mayor of Salt Lake City mirrors the treatment of Jane Eyre in her own life struggling with the way society deals with her being outwardly…
Mary Shelley strongly portrays the opinion that scientific progress in the extreme will result in suffering, when it passes beyond the bounds of what nature will allow. Humans are flawed creatures that will continue to do unnatural types of wrong and suffer for it. Everyone surrounding the criminal human will be also be negatively affected, and the society in its entirety will be subject to suffering at the hands of nature. Humans generally look for comfort in nature’s surroundings because deep down they too are of natural origin, so when a human strays too far from the right and natural they will pay for their betrayal and imperfection of person. In the novel Frankenstein, there are many examples of death and torture and disruption due to…
During the Victorian Era, there was a change in the views towards mental illness as people began to realize the conditions and treatments towards patients of the mental institutions. Jane Eyre follows the story of a girl who is living through the social discriminations of the Victorian Era and observes the way the mentally ill were treated. In most cases, judging someone’s mental health was closely related to gender and where they stood on the social scale. Charlotte Bronte’s accurate yet insensitive portrayal of how mental illness was viewed in the Victorian Era is shown through the depiction of the character Bertha Mason in the novel Jane Eyre. Victorian Era mental patients were first treated with ignorance and anger.…
Ideal of Retaining Principles We often run through several challenges in our lives, where we have to choose either to yield to other's values or to value our own principles. A Gothic novel Jane Eyre explores the epitome of a young yet prideful girl, Jane, who chooses to retain her principles. Since childhood, Jane has experienced a set of injustice and oppositions, and those hardships have influenced her to develop her own way to confront the inequitable world. Indeed, the principles that Jane valued ultimately lead her to be an independent woman. Through this Victorian novel and Jane’s actions, Charlotte Bronte exhibits an ideal of retaining one’s values in the face of adversity and injustice.…
Inclusively the book itself said it was based on cruel love, cruel passion and cruel obsession which is portrayed throughout the story. It is the cruel ways of each character that influences the story to keep on going for instance it is mainly Heathcliff’s cruel way that brought about crueler ways in other characters. To begin with It shows cruel love in not only the love Heathcliff and Catherine have and the things they have to go through but also in the way Isabella loves Heathcliff and he makes her suffer for the actions of her brother. In addition, it is a cruel passion because even though both Catherine and Heathcliff love each other Catherine is married and they still see each other which eventually leads her to her death because she is torn between two lovers. Finally, the cruel obsession can be seen when Catherine dies he asks for Catherine to haunt him till he is able to reunite with her and he becomes a very wicked man.…
Humans have a trend in which we only sacrifice at the most critical or important point, which helps reveal the what we value. This is showcased in the novel, Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte, when the author uses the protagonist, Jane Eyre, to showcase a theme of sacrifice and sometimes lack thereof regarding one’s moral principles in a Victorian society. Throughout the novel, Jane deliberately sacrifices her safety, stability, and emotional gratification, which highlights her character’s values and inner beliefs as she grows from a young child to a mature adult. Jane’s experiences in Gateshead, Lowood, and Thornfield Hall show a period of growth in which Jane keeps her set of morals and makes several decisions of sacrifice throughout the novel,…
He initiates these events against Catherine and Edgar by manipulating Isabella 's emotions to suade her to marry him. He wants Edgar to suffer because of his marriage to Catherine, and for Catherine to be jealous. Catherine’s death proves that his disturbed sense of fulfillment is empty. Edgar and Isabella end up passing as well, leading to the forced and fated Cathy and Linton love story, led by Heathcliff. Catherine’s revenge doesn’t make circumstances better for her.…
In the passage, Heathcliff refers to Linton as his “property” which indicates that while Heathcliff has no emotional ties to the boy nor any affection, he feels entitled to Linton simply because he is Linton’s biological father (Brontë 213). Additionally, Heathcliff’s lack of love for Linton is exhibited when Heathcliff refers to his son as “it” (Brontë 213). By refusing to call his son by name, Heathcliff emphasizes his disdain for the name Linton as well as his lack of interest in actually parenting the boy. Heathcliff acts like a farmer shopping for livestock as he examines Linton. Since Linton is perceived by Heathcliff as property, Heathcliff feels as though he has indirectly taken over the Linton family and can finally get his revenge since his son is the heir.…
Chapters 1-5: The novel is told from the perspective of Jane Eyre. The reader is immediately introduced to her three cousins Eliza, John, and Georgiana. John begins to harshly tease Jane by saying she is a poor orphan who should not be using his stuff. John throws a book at Jane and this causes a fight between the two to occur. Jane’s aunt, Mrs. Reed, blames the fight on Jane and sends her to the redroom to be locked in as punishment.…
Myla Hayes DePalatis HE 2 Period 3 15 November 2015 Modern Woman? Jane Eyre is a novel about a young lady and her journeys and experiences while growing up and becoming a woman. Often when the themes of this novel are being discussed, feminism comes up. Jane has the desire for women to be treated like every other man. Jane is a very distinguished character who in some aspects very independent.…
Messages from Victorian Schools An Analysis of the Messages about Schools from Hard Times and Jane Eyre “You will be never more than someone who flips burgers!” Sometimes, very rarely, teachers may tell this to their students. Whether it be that the teacher may feel that that student be stupid, or maybe that teacher doesn’t like that student for a reason. Although it is very highly unlikely for this incident to occur in today’s society, this occurred all the time in Victorian schools. It has been noted that Victorian teachers at this time were; dull, strict, and mean.…
Consider how the theme of loss and/or suffering is presented in texts you have studied. ‘Wuthering Heights’ presents the theme of loss and suffering as a blend of psychological, spiritual, and physical experiences, with a similar range of causes. The presentation of loss and suffering in various texts is symptomatic of the societies reflected within texts. ‘Wuthering Heights’ largely presents loss and suffering through the loss of innocence and childhood suffering faced by Cathy and Heathcliff. The loss of innocence symbolised by the total shift in Cathy’s appearance from Chapter 6 to 7 through the the adjective “barefoot” creating antithesis with the concrete noun “burnished shoes” to foreground how she has been introduced to the expectations and requirements of society so can no longer be free and connected to nature, reflecting the shift away from the natural world due to the Industrial Revolution.…
Bronte expresses a critical view that society’s idea of marriage, restricts true love, through the deep passion expressed between Catherine and Heathcliff. Bronte conveys the idea that Catherine and Heathcliff are almost separated…
This Heathcliff does not love her but instead married her sister-in-law to hurt her. In this moment, she finalizes her character, before her death, as the source and reason for all pain that she, Heathcliff, and Mr. Linton endured. And after all that she want to be with both Heathcliff and Mr. Linton for two different reasons. And that is her character, a harmful drug, that keeps drawing people…