Jane's Love For Rochester in Jane Eyre
You can't judge a book by it's cover. In Jane Eyre by Charlotte
Bronte, we meet Jane Eyre, who finds her true love to be someone she is not
attracted to. Jane is attracted to people who contain the same intellectual
capacity as her, and has no regard for those who have only beauty and money
to give. After attending an all girls seminary until she reached the age of
eighteen, Jane advertises for a job as a governess, and receives one at an
estate named Thornfield. This is where she meets, Rochester, the owner of
the mansion, and her true love. When she learns of a dark secret he has
been keeping, she flees to another part of England where she meets St. John,
a man who she does find good looking, but doesn't like his personality.
From here she returns to Thornfield where she marries Rochester. If Jane
had gone through her life looking for beauty instead of someone who shared
a mental similarity with her, she never would of found happiness.
Jane is attracted to Rochester, even though she does not find him
to be handsome. "...it was not easy to give an impromptu answer to a
question about appearances; that tastes mostly differ; and that beauty is
of little consequence..." After answering no to Rochester's question of
whether or not he was handsome, she goes on to tell him that appearances
mean little or nothing. Jane understands that to have a true and loving
relationship with someone, that both must have not looks, but a similarity
in thought, and a like for the other's personality. Relationship's such as
this are ones of quality that will last for a long time. Although Jane is
not a beautiful women, she is able to find happiness and that is what's
most important.
Jane has no regard for the beautiful Miss Ingram, for she has no
intellectual capacity. She is not jealous of her closeness to Rochester for
she has no qualities to be jealous of. "She was very showy, but she was not
genuine; she had a fine person, many brilliant attainments, but her mind
was poor, her heart barren by nature..." Jane knows it is far better to
We learn that Jane is a young girl who is a victim of emotional and
Analyse the methods Charlotte Brontë uses to make the reader empathise with Jane Eyre in the opening chapters. Reflect on how the novel portrays Victorian ideology and relate your analysis to the novel’s literary content.
Brennan, Zoe. "Reader's Guide: Bronte's Jane Eyre." Ebrary. Continuum International Publishing 2 2010. Print. April 28, 2014
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This work is also said to be anonymous, and believed to have been produced in Syria within a large Jewish and Jewish-Christian community. It is apparent from a number of shared accounts, and overlapping stories of Jesus that the author of Matthew’s Gospel used Mark as a source. Although many of the stories are expanded upon, and carry different connotations, the same basic stories are found in all of the synoptic gospels, and because Mark was the first written, scholars assume it was a source used by both Matthew and Luke. It should also be noted that many of Jesus’ teachings in Matthew were not found in Mark. This led scholars to search for a second source, which resulted in the Q document. Although not available as a feasible document, Q designates a compilation of Jesus’ parables and sayings from about 50 to 70 CE, which are present in Matthew (Harris p.156). Throughout the gospel, Matthew uses formula quotations, meaning he quotes from the Old Testament. This strong relationship with the Hebrew Bible helps scholars determine that Matthew wanted to emphasize his Jewish position. This is important because his interpretations of Jesus throughout the gospel are not agreed upon by all Jews, in fact only a small fraction. Although it is obvious to the readers than John and Matthew carry very different stories of Jesus’ life, it is interesting to
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