2014. It has often been said that what we value can be determined only by what we sacrifice. Consider how this statement applies to a character from a novel or play. Select a character that has deliberately sacrificed, surrendered, or forfeited something in a way that highlights that character’s values. Then write a well-organized essay in which you analyze how the particular sacrifice illuminates the character’s values and provides a deeper understanding of the meaning of the work as a whole.
Outline
JE sacrifices St John’s companionship for Rochester. She values independence and passion, traits restricted by St. John’s proposal. The meaning of the work as a whole is that females are equal to men, and just as men can demonstrate independence …show more content…
Passion: The first marriage(while it didn’t conflict with Divine mandate), denial of second marriage (despite earthly mandate) and any marriage at all despite independence
Independence: Financial (Rochester’s $ Vs. Her own) and Physical (running away for her sake, working at school rather than being a beggar)
Mandate/Duty: Divine mandate, being the ten commandments etc… duty being responsibilities carried out on earth, such as being a missionary
JE’s sacrifice/forfeiture: St. John’s companionship, almost a form of earthly duty to obey him as benefactor. Previously felt beholden to him, incapable of leaving him or disobeying, strengthened as this conflicted with independence
Mikela Gassert
#LakAttack
AP Lit
16 October 2016
Sacrifice plays a particularly powerful role in Charlotte Brontë’s Jane Eyre as a young woman follows her personal convictions of self identity and independence. Despite being written in the repressed Victorian era, this book’s statements of feminism and equality are omnipresent and rebel against typical sacrifices required of women in the age: independence and passion, respectively. Her sacrifices are ironic for the time period as society expected most women to forfeit these qualities. Jane’s sacrifice of St. John’s companionship reveals these traits’ importance while also evincing Brontë’s belief that women and men are
Outline
JE sacrifices St John’s companionship for Rochester. She values independence and passion, traits restricted by St. John’s proposal. The meaning of the work as a whole is that females are equal to men, and just as men can demonstrate independence …show more content…
Passion: The first marriage(while it didn’t conflict with Divine mandate), denial of second marriage (despite earthly mandate) and any marriage at all despite independence
Independence: Financial (Rochester’s $ Vs. Her own) and Physical (running away for her sake, working at school rather than being a beggar)
Mandate/Duty: Divine mandate, being the ten commandments etc… duty being responsibilities carried out on earth, such as being a missionary
JE’s sacrifice/forfeiture: St. John’s companionship, almost a form of earthly duty to obey him as benefactor. Previously felt beholden to him, incapable of leaving him or disobeying, strengthened as this conflicted with independence
Mikela Gassert
#LakAttack
AP Lit
16 October 2016
Sacrifice plays a particularly powerful role in Charlotte Brontë’s Jane Eyre as a young woman follows her personal convictions of self identity and independence. Despite being written in the repressed Victorian era, this book’s statements of feminism and equality are omnipresent and rebel against typical sacrifices required of women in the age: independence and passion, respectively. Her sacrifices are ironic for the time period as society expected most women to forfeit these qualities. Jane’s sacrifice of St. John’s companionship reveals these traits’ importance while also evincing Brontë’s belief that women and men are