The greatest desire of all is to be important among others, for most children they do not receive this feeling enough. George F. Will once wrote “Childhood is frequently a solemn business for those inside it”. This quote may be interpreted to mean adults see only the bliss of their childhoods, but forget how lugubrious a child’s life can really be, and the hardships of succeeding in life. This quote is proven valid by Jane Eyre in Jane Eyre by Charlotte Brontë, how she has a somber child hood and adults overlook her struggles. It is also proven true by the conceit, Reading the Obituary Page by Linda Pastan how the adults do not acknowledge the vile treatment of the kids. Dispute the expectations childhood is hard and older generations do not support today’s kids, but only the character that persists through all impediments will adhere to happiness.
In Pastan’s poem the children are confined to controlled, ominous, and discrete life’s, which ensures little opportunity to follow their pursuits and desires in life. Pastan describes why they had dressed the kids; it was to look like the picture the adults were seeing. She uses symbolism to describe how the kids were dressed to symbolize the picture the adults were seeing. She outlines them “In starched dresses/with ribbons” to show the parents’ perspective. Pastan uses very clever diction, to identify the real meanings. Pastan tells of how the kids should have a routine or to “circle the chairs” which describes how it is hard for the kids to break the practices set in place by older generations. The kids lack the will to try again as is demonstrated when they first attempt “lunged/to be seated”. The kids are trying to break out of the routine but the word lunged describes...
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.... When she finally finds him, she is in shock but still accepts her “blind, but beloved master” (473). Even till the end of the book, she does not let obstacles deter her, for him being blind does not interfere with the love between them. Jane continued through life when all seemed lost and was rewarded with a husband that could see again and a child.
Jane Eyre was stopped at every turn in her life but persevered through everything, and because of her will to continue forward she was rewarded at the very end. Jane did not need any Fairies or Godmothers to help her, because she was an independent woman that ever gave up. The children in the poem faced despair and forfeited because they thought that getting back up would be futile. All Jane ever wanted in her life was to be important in someone’s eyes, and until that day finally came she never stopped trying.
...escribable sadness that lurks in the air around them. The way the young child will not be satisfied sends his father into a frustrated resentment of modern society. People take too much for granted in a place of hope, privileges, and freedom while war drags on in another country, ten thousand miles away. The appreciation of youthful innocence is thus juxtaposed with selfishness and an inability to be satisfied, which seems to create a double tone that creates a contrast about the reality of humanity. Sometimes we can never be content with what we have until something is lost or sacrificed. In youth and innocence, satisfaction and the appreciation of the world around us seem to come more easily, perhaps because life has not yet been tainted by greed. It may be part of human nature that, as one grows, his desires become more complex and thus more difficult to satiate.
There are many stages throughout the book in which the reader can feel sympathy for Jane Eyre; these include when she is locked in the Red Room, when Helen Burns dies at Lowood, and when she and Mr. Rochester are married the first time.
From an early age Jane is aware she is at a disadvantage, yet she learns how to break free from her entrapment by following her heart. Jane appears as not only the main character in the text, but also a female narrator. Being a female narrator suggests a strong independent woman, but Jane does not seem quite that.
The discussion of children and school also gives well meaning of an organized and well-balanced village the people have put together, one the average parent would want their children raised in. “They tended to gather together quietly for a while before they broke into boisterous play, and their talk was still of the classroom and the teacher, of books and reprimands (p.445).” The thought of children playing also illustrates of a positive outlook for the rest of the story, a sense of happiness.
Charlotte Bronte’s Jane Eyre chronicles the growth of her titular character from girlhood to maturity, focusing on her journey from dependence on negative authority figures to both monetary and psychological independence, from confusion to a clear understanding of self, and from inequality to equality with those to whom she was formerly subject. Originally dependent on her Aunt Reed, Mr. Brocklehurst, and Mr. Rochester, she gains independence through her inheritance and teaching positions. Over the course of the novel, she awakens towards self-understanding, resulting in contentment and eventual happiness. She also achieves equality with the important masculine figures in her life, such as St. John Rivers and Mr. Rochester, gaining self-fulfillment as an independent, fully developed equal.
Every human deserves to be loved. The lack of love can lead to a life full of loneliness and depression. In the book Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte, Jane’s actions are driven by her need to experience love and liberty. At the beginning of the book, Jane is a ten year old girl who is being raised by her aunt in the same house as her cousins. This family that she lives with constantly bullies and neglects her, they do not let her make her own decisions in any aspect of her life. In the ten years of Jane’s life, she has never experienced someone who is her age and who cares for her, a friend. Love and Liberty drive Jane to fill the holes in her life.
Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte depicts the life of a girl who is at odds with her place in the world. Her life of indignation is one of hardship, which is clearly portrayed by Jane Eyre’s thoughts as she sits alone in the Red Room. After being abandoned in the room where her uncle died Jane recognizes her emotions about all her conflicts at Gateshead. The Red Room is an important scene in Jane Eyre as it will haunt her for the rest of her days. Bronte uses the room to give insight into Jane’s feelings of abuse and being an outcast in the Reed family.
In the novel Jane Eyre, Charlotte Bronte uses Jane Eyre as her base to find out how a character confronts the demands of a private passion that conflicts with her responsibilities. . Mistreated abused and deprived of a normal childhood, Jane Eyre creates an enemy early in her childhood with her Aunt Mrs. Reed. Just as Mrs. Reeds life is coming to an end, she writes to Jane asking her for forgiveness, and one last visit from her.
Peter Pan never wanted to grow up, for he always wanted to be a boy and have fun. On the other hand, the general argument made by author, Anne Sexton, in her poem, “The Fury of Overshoes,” is that childhood is most appreciated when a person must be independent. A university student finds that he can relate to the speaker. The high school student, still a child himself, will feel the same as the speaker in her youth. A college student and a high school student reading this poem would conclude this poem with different feelings.
In conclusion, Jane Eyre’s painstaking journey to find a sense of acceptance, affection, and family was finally completed, attaining the things she yearned. She eventually discovered everything she was searching for through Mr. Rochester, forgetting her agonizing past and looking to what was ahead. As Jane looked for many different alternatives to make her feel as if she was complete, she found that Mr. Rochester was the only one who could make her feel
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.
When she was falsely accused to be a liar in front of her schoolmates, she was able to control her rage, eventually justice was served and it was revealed that she was falsely accused. This showed that if you deal with a situation calmly and peacefully you will get a good result. Throughout the book Jane searches for a place in the world where she belongs, where she is wanted and loved. While at Lowood, she tells Helen that “to gain some real affection from you, or Miss Temple, or any other whom I truly love, I would willingly submit to have the bone of my arm broken, or to let a bull toss me, or to stand behind a kicking horse, and let it dash its hoof at my chest” (Bronte, 104) This shows how much she values others affection towards her, to the point where she is willing to harm herself to obtain it. Jane has to face the conflict of gender roles and her social standing to peruse her happiness. When she was a governess at Thornfield she fell in love with Rochester, the owner of Thornfield manner. Although he returned the same feelings, Jane was very hesitant to marry him because of their social class
It is very obvious now that Jane has matured and grown from a little girl with little self-confidence, to a mature and successful woman with self-confidence and experience. The obstacles she had to encounter throughout some of the stages of her life had made her stronger and her self-confidence had grown, also because of certain people in her life. Jane believed in herself and her morals, and as a result was so successful in her life and she was able to achieve a high position of self-confidence at the end of the novel. She developed self-confidence and maintained it my knowing her self-worth, and having faith in what she believes in.