Jane Eyre

In Charlotte Brönte’s Jane Eyre, morality is tied to Jane’s understanding of religion and spirituality. Morality is presented to Jane through Christianity and Jane’s spirituality. Throughout the novel, characters such as Brocklehurst and St John present Jane with their interpretations of Christian moral guidelines: Brocklehurst presents the rejection of physical nourishment, while St John presents ideals such as the rejection of emotional fulfillment in order to carry out God’s will on Earth.…

The protagonist in Jane Eyre, Jane herself, faces various struggles throughout her life. One of the greatest of these struggles is not with an antagonist, but is within her own mind. Though she does face mistreatment from others, these experiences merely cause obstacles in her mind that are ultimately what she must overcome. She incorporates ideals from various characters into her own thoughts, while still rebelling against these same beliefs. The battle in Jane Eyre’s mind is between passion…

this marriage Jane has to cattier for Rochester due to losing his right hand and suffering other injuries in a fire that destroyed Thornfield, caused by his former and crazed wife. Though this may seem a little unsettling to the common eye, Jane has a quite different outlook on the situation. In her mind, it is finally okay to go through with a marriage because she will no longer be considered to be a mistress to him like she would when his wife was still alive. It was also ideal to Jane that…

An Examination of Feminism in Jane Eyre Charlotte Brontë’s Jane Eyre is often lauded as a novel of great importance in the world of feminist literature. Of course, the titular character is relatively independent, she wants things for herself, and her idea of a good life does not begin and end with marriage. There is much more to Jane than that. Jane Eyre was surely very feminist for the time, and does have a solid handful of human values, but to put it on a pedestal as some sort of Great…

independent will” – Jane Eyre. I think that Jane is an intelligent, simple, and honest girl who was forced to live through inequality, injustice, and humiliation. Jane Eyre is the protagonist of the novel “Jane Eyre” by Charlotte Brontë. She was an orphaned child. Throughout the years, she grows independent and strong. She receives cruel and unfair treatment from her Aunt Mrs. Reed. In her search of finding freedom, she meets Mr. Rochester, a wealthy, rude man who works at Thornfield. Jane…

Jane Eyre’s Sacrifice Love is to be glorious, and perhaps momentarily it is, but what does it take to acquire? The novel Jane Eyre is an memoir written by Charlotte Brontë. This woman is a modern feminist, although in the Victorian Era where men are regarded superior of women, she embodies her own route. Therefore, Jane manages throughout sufferable torments from loving a man she is not applicable of being in balance with, which is Mr. Rochester. She deserts him with the comment, “Mr.…

character. In Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë, Jane, through her past struggles at Gateshead and Lowood, develops a strong sense of conscience. Jane actes upon thoughts that are rational and logical, and has strong morals behind her thinking. At Lowood, Jane’s sense of what is wrong or right starts to develop, when she stands up to Miss Scatcherd because Helen is punished unfairly. The morals that Jane gains at Lowood follow her to Thornfield and through the rest of her life. Although Jane sees…

‘Jane Eyre’ is a Victorian novel written by Charlotte Brontë under the pseudonym Currer Bell. It was a very controversial novel, due to its heroine, who took her life in her own hands and wanted to have an education, to be superior, to tranced her condition and the condition of the women in her era. Charlotte Brontë created a bildungsroman which shows the path of a woman, started as a child until she reaches maturity and gets married. Her way till her marriage is as follows: First of all, the…

There are many significant passages in the novel, Jane Eyre, reveals Jane as a person including her values that foretold her inheritance of money from her father and the love/support from Bessie, Miss Temple, and Mrs. Fairfax. In Jane Eyre, Jane seeks out for her family, for a sense of being, value, and belonging. Although, she is also having a tendency to need independence. At the beginning of the novel, she is an unloved orphan that does not receive any parental love from Mrs. Reed or love…

After the publication of Jane Eyre, Charlotte Bronte gained lots of attention from the book around the Victorian Era. The people in the Victorian Era had different views on what they thought about the book depending mostly on their social class. Bronte’s criticism in Jane Eyre of class and gender was not very effective in changing the way the Victorian Society functioned, but rather it was effective in making society think about the different portrayal of the upper class in the Victorian Era,…