Jane Eyre: The Self-Constructed Heroine

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Vikas Yadav
Professor April Pelt
Engl 2130
5 February 2014

Jane Eyre : The Self-Constructed Heroine
PART ONE : SUMMARY
In this article author (Lorna) have been constructing of the female Bildungsroman, which means whose principal subject is the moral, psychological, and intellectual development of a usually youthful main character or development. Jane Eyre has all the determining characteristics of a traditional Bildungsroman. The plot of this novel is based on stages of growth and development. Jane's advancement from her position as teacher to private governess signifies an important development in her life. In the title ‘the self-constructed heroine’ means something that different from other heroines, like external circumstances such as …show more content…

Evidence : She points that when Jane comes to this realization through her careful observation and analysis of Helen Burns. At first, Jane is puzzled by Helen; But as time passes, Jane comes to appreciate the depth of Helen's character while acknowledging that it was frequently hidden by her appearance. When Jane is humiliated in front of the school, Helen comes forward to comfort her with a smile that Jane interprets as "the effluence of fine intellect, of true courage, like a reflection from the aspect of an angel.

Claim 2 : She claims that in the novel, the narrator like other Bildungsroman narrators, has seemed less …show more content…

Jane Eyre is the self-constructed heroine, like when the novel begins, she lives in Gateshead, under her cruel aunt Mrs. Reed and their children. After that her life had totally changed when she reached in the Lowood School. She meets with many people there which influence her. She spends eight more years at Lowood, six as a student and two as a teacher. After teaching for two years, Jane yearns for new experiences. She accepts a governess position at a manor called Thornfield. And after that she never stop in her carrier. She faces many problems in her life but she never stop, she always growing up in her life. She learn new things at every phases of life. She makes very tuff decisions at the crucial time in her life, to leave the thornfield. She proves to herself her endurance, her strenght of principles, and her ability to make new friends. She always against the injustice, like once when Helen say that she practices a doctrine of Christian endurance-loving her enemies andaccepting her privation. But Jane disagrees strongly with such meek tolerance of injustice. I also agreed with both of the

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