Dialectical Journal For Jane Eyre

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Quotes: 1. “I am no bird; and no net ensnares me: I am a free human being with an independent will” (Brontë 18, volume 2). Jane did not have a happy childhood by any means, and her family treated her worse than a servant. She was neglected, abandoned, and beaten, and she never really knew the true meaning of family. And then at school, Jane was once again treated awfully by the school’s supervisor, Mr. Brocklehurst, who is the ultimate hypocrite. He ensures that the girls at the school are kept in inhumane conditions, with disgusting, inedible food, ridiculous amounts of work, and general squalor. Jane’s childhood and adolescent years were extremely unpleasant, and she never experienced true independence. This quote expresses just how much …show more content…

Jane feels trapped, not only in the manor, but also as a woman in 19th century England. She enjoys working at Thornfield, but she is tired of having to answer to someone, and not being allowed any autonomy. “Women are supposed to be very calm generally: but women feel just as men feel; they need exercise for their faculties, and a field for their efforts as much as their brothers do; they suffer from too rigid a restraint” (Brontë 139, volume 1). Jane paces around the manor’s corridors, claiming that it is her only relief; the only way to stop the restlessness and longing that consumes her. She can’t sit still and be a proper woman, Jane simply wants freedom from the patriarchal society and the right to move freely. 5. “There would be recesses in my mind which would be only mine, to which he never came; and sentiments growing there, fresh and sheltered, which his austerity could never blight, nor his measured warrior-march trample down: but as his wife—at his side always, and always restrained, and always checked—forced to keep the fire of my nature continually low, to compel it to burn inwardly and never utter a cry, though the imprisoned flame consumed vital after vital—this would be unendurable” (Brontë 223, volume

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