Jane Eyre is a very interesting character, but do not take that the wrong way. It is cool to see how people change as they grow up. Some people have a tendency to give up way too easily. Then there are people like jane who even though she has many reasons why she could have given in as a kid she held in there through it all. Jane was very strong in her beliefs. There are many people these days who are raised in rough circumstances that expect the government to take care of them, but not jane jane has too much pride and dignity to do that she finds a way herself. Jane has a lot of commencement in her decision making process throughout her childhood and her whole life. Her beginning years were very testing for her she was treated very poorly. …show more content…
In jane's childhood she starts proofing her integrity, still has trouble being happy and having pride for her past. Jane is treated very different during her childhood. She was treated so much differently than the other kids in the house. She lost her parents at a very young age which did not help anything.Jane got bullied a lot as a kid by her cousins for example, “Accustomed to john Reed’s abuse, I never had an idea of replying to it; my care was how to endure the blow which would certainly follow the insult,” (Bronte 17). Jane got so tired of being bullied her she did not even want to respond she just stood there and took it. Mrs. Reed would punish jane for things that were not even jane’s fault. She grew to despise Mrs. Reed for example, “I am not deceitful: if I were, I should say I loved you; but I declare I do not love you: I dislike you the worst of anybody in the world except John Reed,” (Bronte 48). This shows how much jabe grows to dislike the family she is living with. She might dislike mrs. Reed but she really dislikes John. Even through all of her harsh treatment she still resemble her integrity which leads me to my next idea on jane. Jane does show her integrity throughout this whole book.
Jane has been very much so mistreated in her childhood, but always finds a way to stand up for herself in what he believes in. Jane has many people in her childhood who do nothing but put her down and say she is more or less worthless. Jane still tells them how she sees herself for example,“I know something of Mr.Lloyd; I shall write to him; if his reply agrees with your statement, you shall be publicly cleared from every imputation: to me, Jane, you are clear now.” This quote is when jane is telling marie temple how what mrs. Reed said about her is a lie. This shows even though the school might at the moment think she is a liar jane is not afraid to tell them that she is not. When jane is in the school at first she becomes good friends with a girl by the name of helen burns, and when helen first gets sick they lose contact. When jane finds out that helen will not live much longer she goes to see helen,“I came to see you, Helen: I heard you were very ill, and I could not sleep till I had spoken to you.” (Bronte 105). To me this shows jane is very loyal to the people she finds dear to her. This to me shows what jane is really made of, because she did not have to go visit helen and she was actually told not to but she did anyway. Jane takes pride in her every move which brings me to my next
point. Through her faith, her actions, her honesty jane has pride in herself. Jane has a lot of self worth and pride that really shows in her later years even more so. Jane does not keep people in her life that do not make her feel better. Even if they are family jane is not afraid to leave them behind for example,“I am glad you are no relation of mine: I will never call you aunt again as long as I live .”(Bronte 49). Jane at first was afraid to be unfit for someone to join her in marriage, but after a few years and learning what love is she is not worried and becomes much more independent. She even turns down a marriage offer from St.John,“I have not much pride under such circumstances.” (Bronte 511). She would not of been very happy with the marriage because they simply were not in love. Jane is very a very independent woman especially for the time period it was unheard of to turn down marriage. In conclusion jane is very very independent woman and will not settle for much she has her standards for being in her life and if you do not meet them good luck. Jane is not afraid to call people out on their flaws especially if they try to make her look bad. She will flat out tell people they are not speaking the truth of her. Jane did have a very rough childhood but she did not use that to cripple her she just used that as motivation. Jane was a rare breed in her time there were not many women that had the views that jane did. Thank you for your time.
In the novel, Jane Eyre, Charlotte Bronte uses symbolism and characterization to show the theme of independence.
Jane Eyre is about a girl named Jane who struggles to find who she really is and with it what she really wants. “As a model for women readers in the Victorian period and throughout the twentieth century to follow, Jane Eyre encouraged them to make their own choices in living their lives, to develop respect for themselves, and to become individuals” (Markley). One of the reasons why this book gained merit was because of its striking presence within its time period. During the “Victorian Age” woman did not have much say in society, so this novel broke boundaries to societal norms that restricted woman from things they have today. “Brontë is able to enact this tension through her characters and thus show dramatically the journey of a woman striving for balance within her nature.
“Jane Eyre,” by Charlotte Bronte, is a story of an orphaned girl who was forced to live at Gateshead Hall with her Aunt Reed. Throughout her early appalling childhood, Mrs. Reed accused Jane of being deceitful. "I am not deceitful; If I were I would say I loved you; but I declare I do not love you (30)." The author, Charlotte Bronte, used this barbarous quote to reveal to the reader that, Jane Eyre, denies she was deceitful. Deceitful is the major theme of, “ Jane Eyre,” which results in loneliness and wretchedness to the people being lied to but also to the people persisting the untruths.
When we first meet Jane she is a young and orphaned girl with little self-confidence and hope of feelings a sense of belonging and self worth. It is unfair that Jane already feels lonely and desperate in such a cruel world as it is. Jane is open with her thoughts during her narration, “…humbled by the consciousness of my physical inferiority to Eliza, John, and Georgiana Reed” (Bronte 7). Jane already feels as though she cannot participate in everyday activities because she acknowledges that she is a weaker person. By Jane believing she is weak she is succumbing to her own entrapment. The novel opens with Jane feeling inadequate about going on a walk with her cousins and the novel ends with Jane embarking on a journey of her very own, this is not a coincidence.
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...
t being beautiful. I think that Jane Eyre is an unconventional woman because she has attitudes to marriage, status and the role of women in society, which are alien to her time. This is because her creator Brontë uses Jane as a vehicle to bring her own beliefs to the attention of her contemporaries and, hopefully, instigate change. Brontë uses different characters, storylines and coded language, such as the meaning of the phrase ‘a woman’s place’, to satirise aspects of Victorian society. To get these points across, Brontë has to give Jane traits, such as passion and intelligence, which are considered unusual for a Victorian woman.
Jane Eyre is the perfect novel about maturing: a child who is treated cruelly holds herself together and learns to steer her life forward with a driving conscience that keeps her life within personally felt moral bounds. I found Jane as a child to be quite adult-like: she battles it out conversationally with Mrs. Reed on an adult level right from the beginning of the book. The hardship in her childhood makes her extreme need for moral correctness believable. For instance, knowing her righteous stubborness as a child, we can believe that she would later leave Rochester altogether rather than living a life of love and luxury simply by overlooking a legal technicality concerning his previous marriage to a mad woman. Her childhood and her adult life are harmonious which gives the reader the sense of a complete and believable character.
Jane Eyre is born into a world where she is left bereft of the love of parents, family, or friends, but instead surrounded by hateful relatives. She resolves to attend school to begin her quest for independence. This theme is seen through Jane’s behavior when she renounces her relation to her aunt Mrs. Reed, ignoring the nurse’s orders and leaving her room to see Helen again, and when she acquires the courage to speak her opinion to Mr. Rochester.
The novel, Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Bronte, has a plot that is filled with an extraordinary amount of problems. Or so it seems as you are reading it. However, it comes to your attention after you have finished it, that there is a common thread running throughout the book. There are many little difficulties that the main character, the indomitable Jane Eyre, must deal with, but once you reach the end of the book you begin to realize that all of Jane's problems are based around one thing. Jane searches throughout the book for love and acceptance, and is forced to endure many hardships before finding them. First, she must cope with the betrayal of the people who are supposed to be her family - her aunt, Mrs. Reed, and her children, Eliza, Georgiana, and John. Then there is the issue of Jane's time at Lowood School, and how Jane goes out on her own after her best friend leaves. She takes a position at Thornfield Hall as a tutor, and makes some new friendships and even a romance. Yet her newfound happiness is taken away from her and she once again must start over. Then finally, after enduring so much, during the course of the book, Jane finally finds a true family and love, in rather unexpected places.
Jane had a testing childhood at the hands of her aunt Mrs Reed and her cousins. She lived with the Reed family until ten years of age and during these ten years she was bullied and unloved. Jane was then sent away to Lowood School she appeared excited to leave Gateshead, yet once at Lowood she experienced more ridicule and a hard school life. Nevertheless she did find friendship in Helen Burns, although this friendship was short lived as Helen died during a breakout of typhus, through their short friendship Helen had shown Jane that life at Lowood could be bearable; she was also the first friend Jane ever really had.
Although Jane respects Helen’s honesty and stoicism, she cannot. understand her beliefs and the way in which she accepts her constant chastisement so submissively; she herself ‘should wish the earth to. open and swallow me up.’ After talking to Helen, Jane comments that. her feelings were ‘better regulated’ and ‘thoughts more harmonious’. Finally, Mrs. Temple finds someone whom she can respect.
Women in the Victorian era were held to an inferior status. Many had to hide their feelings, conceal their creativity and they were sought to conform to societal rules. Jane Eyre never quite followed this, growing up in a contemptuous household Eyre acted out, calling her provider, Mrs. Reed, "deceitful" and describing her upbringing as "miserable cruelty" (Bronte 37, 36). Jane's upbringing instills her strong belief in justice toward those who treat others unfairly. When Jane becomes a student at Lowood Institute, the orphan school, Jane endures cruelty from the headmaster, Mr. Brocklehurst. Due to her rough childhood, Jane's passion is uncontrollable. Rather than being passionate for love, she is passionate for justice. While at Lowood, she eventually learns the meaning of forgiveness and strength. Her good friend, Helen Burns, teaches her to accept others opinions of her, to be humble and recognize one's own faults. Helen councils Jane, saying "Life appears to me too short to be spent in nursing animosity, or registering wrongs" (58). Helen's advice to Jane teaches her self-possession, to endure hardships that come her way ...
While at Lowood, a state - run orphanage and educational facility, Jane’s first friend, Helen Burns, teaches her the importance of friendship along with other skills that will help Jane grow and emotionally mature in the future. She serves as a role model for Jane. Helen’s intelligence, commitment to her studies, and social graces all lead Jane to discover desirable attributes in Helen. Helen is treated quite poorly, however, “her ability to remain graceful and calm even in the face of (what Jane believes to be) unwarranted punishment makes the greatest impression on the younger girl” (Dunnington). Brontë uses this character as a way to exemplify the type of love that Jane deserves. This relationship allows Jane to understand the importance of having a true friend. Given Jane’s history at Gateshead, finding someone like Helen is monumental in her development as a person. Helen gives through honest friendship, a love that is
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.
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 ...