The archetypal stages in books have been used since the works and discoveries of psychologist, like Carl Jung. Carl Jung saw archetypal stages as recurring images or patterns of situations that come from the unconscious mind. Whereas, Joseph Campbell, a mythologist who wrote a book The Hero of a Thousand Faces, a book about hero’s journeys, demonstrated how characters in books go through a series of stages in order to get to their final destination. In the novels, Jane Eyre and Their Eyes Were Watching God, the main characters all went through their own archetypal stages to get to their final journey to realize or discover their true destiny. Both of the main characters in these novels went through the four stages of the archetypal journey. …show more content…
During this stage there is minimal suffering. In both of these novels it is difficult to see Jane and Janie’s innocence since they both started off with some sort of hardship. In the beginning of Their Eyes Were Watching God, it was early given off that innocence was not easily present. Although a symbol of innocence in this novel was nature, the trees and flowers represented the imagery of innocence. Even if innocence was not fully present, Janie did have a quest early off in the book. Her quest was the quest to becoming a women. As for the second novel, Jane Eyre, her innocence was lost earlier than Janie. Jane Eyre went through certain hardships, in spite of that, she still always maintained a sense of innocence in the way she behaved and viewed things. For example, when Jane would get mistreated by her cousins she was always the bigger person. Through all the mistreatment that Jane went through she always kept the ways she viewed things and her innocence. There was a slight evidence of Jane’s innocence in chapter 14, when Rochester mentions how he envies Jane’s …show more content…
After Jane’s initiation stage of dealing with death and abuse she went on to deal with it and coped with her differences. After years of Helen’s death Jane went on to teaching and became a teacher for two years at Lowood. Once she got tired of teaching she went on to become a governess and highered her social class and met an older wiser man, Rochester. Rochester fell in love with jane almost immediately and always tried to win her over. He always tried to buy Jane expensive gifts but she would always refuse showing that she was independent and did not have to rely on others. Jane dealt with her suffering by overcoming her obstacles from before and proved to those who doubted her that she was the bigger person and was capable of more than everyone thought. Instead of Jane moving backward and trying to return back to innocence, she kept moving forward to learn from her initiation
...life. Adams’ points out that Rochester believed he had “made” Jane a woman; she was not a woman in her own right. Without Rochester’s presence looming over her, she is simply a child. These roles are reversed, and Jane feels in control when Rochester is blinded by the fire set off by Bertha. Jane’s “nurturing custodianship” of him makes her feel equivalent to him, thus leading them to get married.
The three events that mark Jane as an evolving dynamic character are when she is locked in the red room, self reflecting on her time at Gateshead, her friendship with Helen Burns at LoWood, her relationship with Mr. Rochester, and her last moments with a sick Mrs. Reed. Brought up as an orphan by her widowed aunt, Mrs. Reed, Jane is accustomed to her aunts vindictive comments and selfish tendencies. Left out of family gatherings, shoved and hit by her cousin, John Reed, and teased by her other cousins, Georgina and Eliza Reed, the reader almost cringes at the unfairness of it all. But even at the young age of ten, Jane knows the consequences of her actions if she were to speak out against any of them. At one point she wonders why she endures in silence for the pleasure of others. Why she is oppressed. "Always suffering, always browbeaten, always accused, forever condemned" (Bronte, 12). Jane’s life at Gateshead is not far from miserable. Not only is she bullied by her cousins and nagged by her aunt, but help from even Bessie, her nurse and sort of friend, seems out of her reach. In the red room scene Jane is drug by Ms. Ab...
Rochester tried to push Jane away unto which she states “[she is] no bird; [She is] a free human being with an independent will,” (292). Her journey to finding this independence is finally resolved once her battle of deciding whether to go with dependency and love or growth from autonomy is settled by attaining love after being independent and no longer needing to be dependent. Her growth throughout the book shows the overt bildungsroman portrayed by Jane’s choices to be independent and that which is acquired upon her decisions to be away from
Jane Eyre’s early childhood years were partially spent at Gateshead. Here, her wealthy Aunt Sarah Reed and her cousins, treated her with cold-hearted cruelty thus leaving Jane feeling alone, alienated and longing to belong somewhere, to feel equal and to know what it is to truly be happy and loved. It is from her ill treatment at Gateshead that she begins to establish her own moral principles. She first demonstrates her newfound integrity just before her departure to Lowood School. Jane loses her temper and to her Aunt Reed she yells," if anyone asks me how I liked you, and how you treated me, I will say, that you treated me with miserable cruelty, you think I have no feelings and that I can do without one bit of love or kindness; but I cannot live so, people think you are a good woman, but you are bad, hard hearted, you are deceitful"(Page 26). Through this confrontation, Jane displays immense passion, she shows that she has become strong-willed and has developed a sense of justice, as she knows her ill treatment was wrong. Not long after Jane’s outburst she feels her "soul begin to expand; to exult, with the strangest sense of freedom, of triumph,"(Page 26) Jane has changed for the better; she feels a sense of freedom and triumph, which she has never felt before. She has taken her first step in her journey to self-fulfilment.
Jane thought that she would be spend the rest of her life in Thornfield with Mr. Rochester until his darkest secret came to life on the day of their wedding. Discovering that Mr. Rochester was already married had torn and weakened Jane soul. Jane conscious soon push her into making the decision to leave Thornfield and start fresh rather than live with this heavy weight on her shoulders. Jane knows that Mr. Rochester has deeply falling in love with her but did not take that chance and divorce Bertha. Jane has developed much respect for herself not to be a mistress.
At the start of Jane Eyre, Jane is living with her widowed aunt, Mrs. Reed, and her family after being orphaned. Jane is bitterly unhappy there because she is constantly tormented by her cousins, John, Eliza, and Georgiana. After reading the entire book you realize that Jane was perfectly capable of dealing with that issue on her own, but what made it unbearable was that Mrs. Reed always sided with her children, and never admitted to herself that her offspring could ever do such things as they did to Jane. Therefore, Jane was always punished for what the other three children did, and was branded a liar by Mrs. Reed. This point in the book marks the beginning of Jane's primary conflict in the novel. She feels unloved and unaccepted by the world, as her own family betrays her.
Charlotte Bronte’s Jane Eyre is a coming of age novel that discusses Jane’s challenges as she grows up and continues into adulthood. Jane was deemed as a ‘poor orphan’ by her aunt and her cousins; unfortunately her uncle passed away and made her aunt promise to care for Jane as she would her other children. Mrs. Reed, Jane’s aunt, did not keep her promise to her late husband, instead she treated Jane poorly and allowed her son to do so also. Jane spoke back to her cousin, Master John, when he threw a book at her and injured her. As she was taken to the red-room, for her punishment, she fought back and seemed unrelenting. This seems to be the first time she finds herself, if you will. This new attribute isn’t lost, it actually tends to grow
In Charlotte Brontë’s Jane Eyre, Jane encounters several characters during the stages of her life. Some of the characters appear in more than one stage of her life such as Mrs Reed, Bessie, and Rochester. There are other characters who are only there for her for a short period of time such as St John, Miss Temple, and Helen Burns. Although these characters are only in Jane’s life for a short time, they each have a great impact on Jane, especially Jane’s encounter with Helen at the Lowood Institution. Helen Burns makes a grave impact on Jane’s life, at Lowood and continuing on for the rest of her life.
Moseley goes on to say, “Liberty and love are in some way at war in the lives of all of us.” It is not until Jane reaches personal liberation, that she is capable of loving someone else to a full extent. Throughout Jane Eyre Jane must learn how to gain love without sacrificing herself in the process. Orphaned at an early age, Jane becomes used to a lackluster lifestyle without any true value. It is not until she finds love and comfort in her friends at Lowood that her life begins to turn around. Upon meeting Rochester, Jane’s life was only as plain as she made it. She untwines in a world wind romance, ultimately finding the love she craved without losing her self-value.
In movies, novels, and life, people are named as heroes. The heroes we establish and the heroes we recognize, however, may not meet the criteria for a mythic hero. A mythic hero ventures forth on his journey, and comes forth from the hero’s path to greatness. Joseph Campbell, a mythologist who studied many of the great human myths and religious tales, realized, in studying these myths and tales, that there were certain steps that every hero went through. Campbell called this “The Hero’s Journey”; it is based on Carl Jung's idea that all human beings have an archetype. After Campbell studied a lot of the great myths and realized this pattern, he published his findings in his book The Hero with a Thousand Faces. Ever since then, authors have used “The Hero’s Journey” as an outline to tell their stories. “It is important to note that not all of these individual steps are present in every hero’s tale, nor is it important that they be in this exact order” (Vogler 20). The Hero with a Thousand Faces gives a sense of significance as it looks into the inner mind and soul. The author, Joseph Campbell, performs two extraordinary accomplishments: compelling his readers that myth and dream, those are the most effective and everlasting forces in life and a unification of mythology and psychoanalysis with a gripping narrative. One well-known example of “The Hero’s Journey” from popular culture is the Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s Stone, by J.K. Rowling. In the novel, Harry Potter, the main character, is the chosen one and “The Hero’s Journey” applies to his life from the moment he is attacked by He-Who-Must-Not-Be-Named as a baby.
At the beginning of the novel, Bronte presents Jane as a lonely, yet independent and intelligent child who faces difficult hardships at a very young age. At Gateshead, Jane is greatly mistreated by her family members which result in her attending a school for orphaned children called Lowood. Although Jane's life at Lowood is an improvement compared to life at Gateshead, she still feels as though she belongs elsewhere. Jane sends out an advertisement for a wanted governess after six years of living at Lowood and soon begins working at Thornfield Hall where she begins teaching a young French girl Adele Varens. Upon arriving, Jane is informed by the housekeeper Mrs. Fairfax that the owner of Thornfield Mr. Rochester travels often and has lived through a troubled life. After many months have passed at Thornfield Jane finally meets Mr. Rochester and he takes a great secretive interest in her. The relationship between Jane and Mr. Rochester is the first non-abusive relationship Jane has with another man in the no...
Jane encounters many traits about Rochester unlike any trait of a man she’s ever known; such as his unconventional propriety and blunt directness. Despite his stern disposition and unattractiveness, he wins over Jane’s heart. Jane is inferior to Rochester financially and socially, but Jane is equal to him in intelligence and compassion. After their relationship was interrupted
Since Mrs. Reed wants Jane’s life at Lowood to be equally as difficult as her life at Gateshead, she lies to Mr. Brocklehurst making him believe Jane is a wicked child. Considering Mr. Brocklehurst is a truculent man, Mrs. Reed knows that telling him Jane is deceitfull will confirm that her time at Lowood will be more callous than she expects. After Mr. Brocklehurst departs from Gateshead, succeeding Jane’s acceptance into Lowood school, Jane is furious with her aunt. She acts out, screams at Mrs. Reed, and exclaims, “I will never call you aunt again as long as I live. I will never come to visit you when I am grown up; and if anyone asks me how I liked you, and how you treated me, I will say the very thought of you makes me sick, and that you treated me with miserable cruelty” (Chapter IV). Since Jane has been mistreated by Mrs. Reed throughout her life, she is accustomed to her aunt’s cruel behavior. But when Mrs. Reeds lies to Mr. Brocklehurst claiming Jane is a liar, Jane decides enough is enough. Her sudden outburst causes her to tell Mrs. Reed how she has truly felt during her life at Gateshead which causes her to stand up for herself and become more assertive. Mr. Rochester also helps Jane become a strong willed and
Along with maternal love, Jane and Victoria had to find their sense of belonging and their “home” in new places because their childhoods did not provide them with that place. They learned that a home did not have to be a place; it could be a person or even a feeling. Jane had felt so unwanted and out of place for much of her life but when she met Mr. Rochester, she found somewhere she belonged. Even before they started their romantic relationship, Mr. Rochester was somebody who listened to her when she spoke, actually wanting to have conversations with her and forcing her to start to be herself rather than the character she had forced herself into being. He called her pet names and treated her the way she had always dreamed of being treated. That is why after being away from Thornfield for a week,
At the beginning of the book, Jane was living with her aunt Mrs. Reed and her children. Although Jane is treated cruelly and is abused constantly, she still displays passion and spirit by fighting back at John and finally standing up to Mrs Reed. Even Bessie ‘knew it was always in her’. Mrs. Reed accuses Jane of lying and being a troublesome person when Mr. Brocklehurst of Lowood School visited Gateshead. Jane is hurt, as she knows she was not deceitful so she defends herself as she defended herself to John Reed when he abused her, as she said “Wicked and cruel boy! You are like a murderer – you are like a slave driver – you are like the Roman emperors!” to John Reed instead of staying silent and taking in the abuse, which would damage her self-confidence and self-worth. With the anger she had gotten from being treated cruelly, she was able to gain ...