Jane Says

Jane represents a contrast between many characters, including Mr. Rochester, St. John, Blanche Ingram, and Bertha Mason. In Mr. Rochester and Bertha’s case, Jane provides a contrast of light versus dark. Blanche Ingram represents wealth, beauty, and the cusp of the ideal female in the 18th century, while Jane is a lowly, unattractive governess at the time. St. John provides a religious and moralistic value unlike Jane, who represents a pragmatic realism. Even though Rochester is not described as…

Comparison of Mr. Rochester’s and St. John Rivers’ relationships towards Jane Eyre Charlotte Bronte’s novel Jane Eyre provides two masculine characters who show an interest in taking Jane to wife. Edward Rochester and St. John Rivers are the two men in Jane Eyre’s life when it comes to courtship and marriage. Both are interesting and different in their approach. In the process of meeting and getting to know the both men, Jane goes through a mental process of getting to know herself and her…

My, How Jane Eyre has Grown! How did Jane Eyre go from angry child to content adult? Jane suffered much. But she also had minute pleasure in her life. These things all molded her into the woman she becomes at the end of the book. God did not bless her with a life of wealth until her later years, but this resulted in her becoming a very humble and polite woman. Mr. Rochester is likely the thing that changed her life most, as she felt a love never felt before. He was the single pleasure that God…

Theodore Roethke has a love for Jane but not a romantic love. A love more of admiration of the person she was. He uses aspects of nature to describe her greatest qualities. oh how he talks so highly of her, shy to talk at first Jane was but "once startled into talk, the light syllables leaped her" as if they have been awaiting eagerly for her to talk this whole time. This indicates that when Jane spoke everybody listened with great interest including Theodore. "Her song trembling the twigs and…

simultaneously, the work can be determined as gothic. “Jane Eyre” (I would just italicize instead of “ but you do you) fully exhibits these common gothic elements; however, another work that incorporates many of these elements is “Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs.” Although at first glance, it appears to simply be a fairytale, upon deeper inspection, there are certain elements tied into the plotline that, I believe, classify it as a gothic tale. “Jane Eyre” is a classic example of gothic…

the time of Jane Austen, tend to have a certain expectation to be considered admirable. There is a type of woman In the Novel Emma by Jane Austen, Emma and Jane both are seen as beautiful and knowledgeable, accomplished. However, they both grew up and have accustomed to the different lives they have. In Emma’s first encounter with Jane, she showed no sign of interest in getting to know her or being friendly. Comparing both these characters, Emma is shown less likeable in comparison to Jane…

Charlotte Bronte’s publication of her 19th century Jane Eyre. Some would say Jane Eyre is an engaging love story in which love conquers all; on the other hand, some have derived an allegory for some unseen erotic power struggle embodied between men and women in the 1800s. However, deep down, Jane Eyre is truly the depiction of transition from harsh morality to beautiful satisfaction—a “story of a woman’s education into life” (Teachman 2). Bronte’s Jane is an endearing character, whose woes in…

Jane Eyre is a novel following the life of a young orphan child who grew up in 19th century England. Throughout the novel Jane resides at many different places. Each location where Jane lives, Gateshead, Lowood, Thornfield, and the Moor House, reflects a part of Jane’s character; Gateshead reflects Jane’s struggle for independence, Lowood reflects her passion for knowledge and teaching, Thornfield reflects Jane’s continued struggle for independence and her maturation into a woman, the Moor House…

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,…

and never keep, things in order; I am careless; I forget rules; I read when I should learn my lessons; I have no method; and sometimes I say, like you, I cannot bear to be subjected to systematic arrangements,” (53). Jane’s teachers, like Miss Scatcherd, and other authoritative figures she should be looking up to, are explicitly pointing…