Jane Eyre Essay

protagonists of ‘Jane Eyre’ and ‘The Scarlet Letter’, Jane Eyre and Hester Prynne respectively. Throughout the two novels it can be broadly debated whether the characters are presented as outsiders due to their internal characteristics, or whether it is society and other external forces which consequently contribute to their lonely and secluded characters. From the very beginning of ‘Jane Eyre’, Bronte presents Jane as an outsider based on her characteristics, life and childhood. From Jane…

“belonging to a realm or system that transcends nature, as that of divine, magical, or ghostly being,” as defined by the Oxford English Dictionary. William Shakespeare, Charlotte Bronte and Jean Rhys utilize the supernatural in their works, Macbeth, Jane Eyre and Wide Sargasso Sea, respectively. No matter the gain or loss of power, the supernatural induces people to reach a brink of madness. The supernatural…

Abstract The paper makes a postcolonial feminist reading of Jean Rhys’s novel, Wide Sargasso Sea which is a subversion of Charlotte Bronte’s celebrated novel,Jane Eyre.It tries to show how in the novel, Rhys lends voice to Antoinette Cosway, the most silenced character in Jane Eyre and how she foregrounds the importance of creolized gendered subject within the hierarchy of European patriarchy. The paper unravels the way in which the sense of unbelongingness and gendered discrimination…

Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte and Frankenstein by Mary Shelley are two novels in which the themes of equality and inequality are explored extensively. The texts are both written by women in 1847 and 1818 respectively and both deal with gender inequality. Jane Eyre is also a social commentary on the injustices and inequalities of the classist Victorian hierarchy whereas Shelley’s novel focuses on the human rejection of unconventionality and the inequalities faced by societies ‘outcasts. The…

Jane Eyre experienced many things throughout the novel that changed her as a person and that affected her personality as she grew. Some things made her stronger and gave her confidence and some things made her weaker and self-conscious. However, Jane remains strong and stands up for herself. Nothing stopped her from chasing her dreams and goals. Although, there were problems that blocked her these problems made her stronger, the person she is, and built her character. Jane has a very strong…

In both novels, the main protagonists experience suffering as they are aware of the duties which stop them from pursuing their love. In Jane Eyre, Jane is heartbroken after learning that Mr Rochester is already married. She struggles with her decision as to what is more important, her duty to uphold her Christian values or her love for Mr Rochester. She chooses her Christian values as she tells Rochester that she “will keep the law given by god” (c.27). This is reflective of Christian values on…

have guessed there was a woman fighting back against the 1800s idea that women are always supposed to rely on a man? In the novel, Jane Eyre by Charlotte Brontë, there was a lower class woman named Jane Eyre, who interacted with, fell in love with, argued with, and learned from a multitude of different characters, such as John Reed, Mr. Rochester, and St. John. Jane started off as a poor orphan who then gained independence as she went through school, got herself a job, inherited money and became…

Because Rochester “continued to be blind the first two years of [their] union,” the two were “knit so very close” (Brontë 479). Jane is “his vision” (Brontë 479). In this synecdoche, Jane is, in essence, reduced to a part of Rochester. While it is almost universally believed that Jane and Rochester did in fact marry for love—a point that I have no reason nor proof to argue against—her marriage to Rochester does highlight a shift in her balance of reason…

only mentioned briefly to help tie together the story of Jane Eyre. Since he is only mentioned briefly he has not chance to develop throughout the story. Mrs. Reed Round, Developing Mrs. Reed is a round character because her personality is described as being cruel and wishes that Jane was not being forced to take care of the child. She is then a developing character because near the end of the story she changes the way that she treats Jane and apologizes to her on her death bed. John Reed…

-- after all, how can something be both abhorrent and empowering? In Charlotte Bronte’s Jane Eyre, the titular character suffers this kind of isolation from society, and through her isolation develops both a deep desire for human companionship and a fierce independence, and is then forced to grapple with her two incompatible desires. In the beginning of the novel, it is immediately established that Jane Eyre is an orphan. She is set apart from her closest living family, the Reeds, both visually…