Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte
In this essay I am going to analyse the novel ‘Jane Eyre’ by Charlotte
Bronte. Jane is an orphaned child sent to live with her aunt and
uncle. Her uncle was her last remaining blood relative and, since he
died, she has been severely neglected. She is treated like a slave and
is bullied by her cousins. She was locked in a room in which her uncle
died in and thought that she saw a ghost of him and fainted. The owner
of Lowood boarding school comes to talk to Mrs Reed about her
attending the school and Mrs Reed in spite of Jane gives him false
information about Jane, telling him that she is a liar. Mr
Brocklehurst never forgets what her Aunt said and uses it against her
throughout her school life until it is proven that she is innocent.
Jane grows up to work as a teacher at Lowood and eventually marries
the wealthy Mr Rochester. I am going to show you some of the ways
Charlotte Bronte uses to establish the character of Jane Eyre.
One way that Bronte establishes the character of Jane Eyre is by
creating characters who contrast with Jane. One of the characters that
we can use as a contrast to Jane is Master John Reed:
“Joan is not here: tell mama she is run out into the rain – bad
animal!”
He says when he was looking for Jane in the library. She was there,
but was hiding from him behind the curtains reading because she just
wanted to be left alone in peace and quiet to read without being
found. John Reed is mocking her when he says this, calling her Joan
not Jane just to make her angry. He knows she has a short temper and
likes to put it to the test so she will get in trouble. Mrs Reed is
given false information that Jane has run out into the rain to make
her think that...
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...eople say about her and also what they think
about her. Also I can draw from the novel that she is still trying to
establish parts of Jane at the end, she is a hard character to write
about as she has lots of different actions and moods. When she was a
Gateshead she is very uptight and not loved at all, because of this it
creates a link with the reader and draws you into the situation and
makes you side with Jane through the book. When she is at Lowood and
further throughout her life she slowly begins to relax and let people
into her life and they are people that really love her for who she is
and they are all her friends. I also think that Bronte establishes the
character very well as she doesn’t give away all of Jane at the
beginning, she makes you want to read more to find out what happens to
Jane and how she develops her character throughout the novel.
The starting point of this book shows how much she hates Ms.Leone and complaining about her current situations. For example, in one of her first entries, she talks about when she got in trouble for coming home late from school. Her foster parents think she is doing drugs, so they search her. After that they lock her in the laundry room. ...
There are many stages throughout the book in which the reader can feel sympathy for Jane Eyre; these include when she is locked in the Red Room, when Helen Burns dies at Lowood, and when she and Mr. Rochester are married the first time.
An example is her torture during the majority of the book. In 6th grade she went to her friends party, and to her astonishment, a couple began making out in the closet. She called her mom to tell her what was going on and her mom told the mother ...
basis of the plot and themes of this novel. The fond memories she possessed of her mother and the harsh ones of her father are reflected in the thoughts and
she tries to change her life to make it better, that she wants her own happiness.
From an early age Jane is aware she is at a disadvantage, yet she learns how to break free from her entrapment by following her heart. Jane appears as not only the main character in the text, but also a female narrator. Being a female narrator suggests a strong independent woman, but Jane does not seem quite that.
When General Rochambeau met General Washington in 1781 to determine their next move against the British, Washington wanted to attack New York City. Rochambeau convinced him that the wiser move was to move South. Word had come from General Lafayette in Virginia that Cornwallis had taken up a defensive position at Yorktown. Cornwallis was situated next to the York River. If they could surround the city by land and cut off Cornwallis' escape route on the river, Washington and Rochambeau would strike an enormous blow to the British forces. Planning for the elaborate campaign began immediately.
character, she is 17 and she is an orphan that lives with her uncle, I
posts, this was felt to be a women's job as it is the mother who would
influence all her life and struggles to accept her true identity. Through the story you can
She is thirteen years of age who, at the start of the book, finds out that ...
A Critical Evaluation of Jane Eyre Although Jane Eyre grows and matures, Margaret McFadden-Gerber views her as a relatively emotionally stable young feminist. Through the duration of the novel, Jane demonstrates her "self-love" that is often an influential emotion leading to drastic and hasty reactions. In the very opening few chapters, Jane takes a stand for herself and presents her bruised ego, pride and maturity. Sara Reed, her aunt, dismisses her place in the family as Jane is physically and emotionally removed from her "family's" activities.
In the beginning of Jane Eyre, Jane struggles against Bessie, the nurse at Gateshead Hall, and says, I resisted all the way: a new thing for me…"(Chapter 2). This sentence foreshadows what will be an important theme of the rest of the book, that of female independence or rebelliousness. Jane is here resisting her unfair punishment, but throughout the novel she expresses her opinions on the state of women. Tied to this theme is another of class and the resistance of the terms of one's class. Spiritual and supernatural themes can also be traced throughout the novel.
treated unfairly by the whole family, is abused by her parents and isn’t allowed to invite anybody over or go to anybody’s house. In this novel, Chinese Cinderella, the author Adeline Yen Mah writes the story as very depressing.
She hides her actions and attempt to justify them until she is expose by the letter from the paper regarding her novel entry. She is ignorant to her unrealistic judgements about Cecilia and Robert and attempts to fix the problem when she made it worse. She realizes her mistake when the letter questions the conflict of her novel and she witnesses her attempt to hide the true horror behind her decision. While she attempts at hiding her problem in the draft, she made it more noticeable to the paper and drain the luster of the plot. Her realization of her ignorance honor the lovers’ romance and made her strive to atone her former