Cinderella's Motive Essay

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Not only in Cinderella’s motive is noticed appear in the novel. Also there is a strong connection between Jane Eyre and the Beauty and the Beast. This is a well-known fairy tale and still popular these days written in XVIII century by French novelist Gabrielle-Suzanne Barbot de Villeneuve. The story of a girl who falls in love with an enchanted prince shares the idea of love which is above the physical appearance and social status.
According to Phyllis C. Ralph, like in the fairy tale “it is the poverty of Jane's father that creates the situation of the narrative” (p. 99). From this quotation we can understand that circumstances caused by poverty for the girls from both stories became the reason to live with people that are not their family. The difference in this situation is that the Beauty feels welcome, happy and loved in her new home and Jane lives with …show more content…

Unfortunately, it cannot be told the same about Jane. In the family of Mrs Reed her cousins are considered as beautiful and Jane as the ugly one, so in this story Jane is considered more like a female beast. This paints the picture of her position in the first chapters even more invidious and gloomy. Edward Rochester does not look a handsome man either. When he asks her if she thinks him handsome, Jane’s answer is honest: “No, sir” (p.132). What is more, at the end of the story, after the fire in his house he became blind but it did not stop Jane from marrying him. Jane becomes beautiful only in the eyes of Mr. Rochester because he is in loved, unfortunately, she does not think the same way about him. Despite the fact, that this part has similarities with the fairy tale, it also can look very realistic – it shows and teaches us at the same time that as in the real world, here not only beautiful people fall in love and that beauty is not about physical appearance but about our personality, way of thinking and

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