The preparations…throw her into ecstasies.” My Response: This was said because Jane was to get ready for company with such a short notice and she was very excited about the company that they were going to receive. Group Response: Jane had people coming over and so she was in charge for planning everything and being in charge of cleaning and decorating everything that this threw her into ecstasies meaning that it fulfilled her with such joy and excitement. 2. “I shall endeavour to fail.” My Response: Jane was so sick of people telling her that she failed at almost everything that she did and so she should just give up on it all. Jane refused and since she failed at almost everything she just decided to keep on trying but to also not feel
Jane has been dealt a rough hand of cards, she hasn’t felt love or care from anyone, she doesn’t know what love feels like. She has owned very little, and throughout the book she refers to herself as dull and plain. “ ‘Did you expect a present, Miss Eyre? Are you fond of presents?’ and he searched my face with eyes that I saw were dark, irate and piercing. ‘I hardly know, sir; I have little experience of them: they are generally thought pleasant things’” (Brontë 81). Now that Jane left Lowood it seems to be as if she wants more independence. She doesnt like being bossed around. She wants to do her own
No matter how much he put her through, she kept fighting for her life. I was confused by this because, in my eyes her life was completely over. I did not see how she could ever live a functioning life after all of the things that she went through. I would have thought that this reality would have been a reason for her to give up and choose fiction. Fiction would have been the easy way out of the pain, loses, and suffering that she faces and would continue to face. Then I thought to myself that is what makes humans amazing. Being able to endure the challenges of life and keep going. Originally, I thought she was a fool to keep going then I realized that she was strong. If I was her I would have chosen my reality
Jane's treatment leads her to insanity. When this story was written, there was neither the medicine nor the treatment methods that we have today. If Jane was in today's
The narrator finally achieves an authoritative position in her marriage, with John unconscious and her creative imagination finally free of all restraints. Her continual “creeping” over his prone body serves as a repeated emphasis of this liberation, almost as if the narrator chooses to climb over him to highlight his inferiority over and over again” (Harrison). John was a weak person, Jane suffered from a nervous disorder which was made way worse by the feelings of being trapped in a room. The setting of the nursery room with barred windows in a colonial mansion provides an image of the loneliness and seclusion she experienced. Periods of time can lead to insanity. Maybe her illness wasn’t that bad but he made it worse on her part because he was a sick husband. Some critics have argued “Is the narrator really liberated? We’re inclined towards saying “no”, given that she’s still creeping around the room and that her psyche is broken”
she treated Jane as if she were her own daughter. We realize now that Jane
Finally, Jane betrayed herself when she becomes a beggar “ Oh, for but a crust! for but one mouthful to allay the pang of famine! Instinctively I turned my face again to the village; I found the shop again, and I went in; and though others were there besides the woman I ventured the request--"Would she give me a roll for this handkerchief?" (Brontë, Ch. 28). She is without money and begs for whatever scrap of food she can get her hands on either a piece of the man’s bread or porridge meant to go to the pigs that a girl is about to
...eople in her life has also shaped her to feel extreme tension for the characters around her. Although it’s very fortunate that an orphan like Jane her self is able to achieve wealth and power without having education or social motivation , Jane also has manners and shows sophistication while remaining penniless and powerless.
She rebelled because she was long deprived of freedom, and her imprisonment. From this isolation Jane manages to learn independence and learns to really only on herself for much needed comfort and entertainment.
...s to her full ability. By using the talents and prospects of rhetorical strategies, she was able to change the conglomerate of people to putty in her hand.
Jane’s quest to find a sense of belonging follows her from the beginning, to the end of the narrative. Ever since Jane was a child, she was taught that she would never be accepted into society. From the start, she was never considered a member of the Reed family. They belittled her and treated her as if she were a servant, making sure she knew that she was not a part of their family. “They will
And she revelled in it, before it became too dangerous. She, unblinkingly, sent countless people to their deaths; she effortlessly imposed dreadful fear upon the young girls in the village, to the extent that one was reduced to insanity. She thought not once to stop, the euphoric indulgence was too great for her, because she could, she did. Ironically throughout her diabolical reign the one redeeming feature she possessed enforced her actions and accusations most powerfully, her illusive childlike innocence.
If she got out “in spite” of him it implies that he was actively doing something to keep her inside of the wallpaper. This, then, must be a reference to the method by which John was trying to “cure” his wife’s mental illness. The regiment consisted of “…journeys, and air, and exercise.” (Stetson 648) Jane contested that the treatment did not help her condition. The remark about Jane in the former quote pits her against the woman in the wallpaper. Since Jane has become one with the woman in the wallpaper, and there is an implication that the woman overpowered Jane, it becomes clear that the woman was never an external entity at all. Rather, she was a part of Jane’s consciousness. If one accepts this line of reasoning, then it becomes clear that the room symbolizes Jane’s mind. Her physical presence in the room itself represents her conscious mind, while the woman behind the wallpaper represents her subconscious drive to have agency over her own
thinks of her as burden, and low life. Jane is forced to live with her
Rochester. There is a saying that one will always find their way back home and for Jane, this is especially true. Although she is forced to leave him, she never stops longing for him and when she is finally reunited with him, the contentment she felt returned. Victoria also spent much of her life feeling undesirable and often felt she had nothing to live for. When she turned eighteen and “graduated” from the foster care system, she did not even care enough to try to find a job to keep a roof over her head. She ended up living in the park for a while until she managed to get back on her feet. However, even in this time in her life, the only thing she cared about was flowers. Specifically, the language of flowers Elizabeth had taught her drove her to do things like approach Renata for a job and later start her own business helping others through her flowers. Her “home” was her flowers and they gave her life purpose; as Victoria states, “I had been loyal to nothing except the language of flowers. If I started lying about it, there would be nothing left in my life that was beautiful or true” (Diffenbaugh
It is very obvious now that Jane has matured and grown from a little girl with little self-confidence, to a mature and successful woman with self-confidence and experience. The obstacles she had to encounter throughout some of the stages of her life had made her stronger and her self-confidence had grown, also because of certain people in her life. Jane believed in herself and her morals, and as a result was so successful in her life and she was able to achieve a high position of self-confidence at the end of the novel. She developed self-confidence and maintained it my knowing her self-worth, and having faith in what she believes in.