Humans can find it challenging to have self motivation, let alone determination. To thrive in a world such as Earth to live a life worth living, it takes just that, determination. In Jane Eyre, Charlotte Bronte demonstrates this with the evolution of Jane's life. The trails she goes through with her aunt, Mr. Rochester and then St John each time she overcomes it with courage. Using mainly symbolism and motifs, these devices beautifully portray strong will in this novel.
Living with her aunt and being totally outcasted like a stranger has her at her wits end. Then when they send her to school for ten years was a blessing to Jane. After having achieved all she could at the school, she deems it appropriate to move on, so she does and gets a
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job as a governess. Little did she know that she would fall helplessly in love with her employer, Mr. Rochester. The months go on and he proposes to her, they go on as normal and at the wedding Jane discovers his secret. She is so devastated she runs away and is homeless for a couple days until she stumbles upon a family that agrees to help her. In the novel Jane is young and has a short temper, Her cousin, John , bullies her and her aunt, Mrs. Reed, punishes her unjustly on one occasion Mrs. Reed locks Jane in the red room. As she is in the room, she starts seeing things and becomes hysterical, ¨Oh! I saw a light, and I thought a ghost would come.¨ (Bronte 21.) Jane got so worked up she eventually passes out, although she was distressed nobody let her out of the red room. The servants fetch a doctor to see Jane and later when she is coherent enough to have a conversation the doctor asks her if she would like to go to school. She loves the idea, later her aunt and her are alone in the room and when Mrs. Reed dismisses her so rudely she contemplates giving her a piece of her mind. As she makes her way to the door she turns and lets her have it. “I am glad you are no relation of mine… people think you a good woman, but you are bad, hard-hearted. You are deceitful!”(Bronte 29). The fact that her aunt was the one who put her in the room and didn't allow anyone to release Jane from the room made her very upset with Mrs. Reed. Jane was determined to hate her aunt forever, but later in life, after she has matured, she is summed to her aunt's house and amends are made. While she is her new school, Lowood, she is called out by the headmaster “ ladies, miss temple, teachers, and children, you all see this girl?
Of course they did; for I felt their eyes directed like burning-glasses against my scorched skin” (Bronte 69). After being humiliated in front of the school. Jane found an unlikely strength in a peer, “I mastered the rising hysteria, lifted up my head, and took a firm stand on the stool” (Bronte 70). Jane keeps a straight face in front of everyone, but once alone, she submits to her feelings and reacts by weeping. Soon after her friend, Helen, accompanied her and soothed her. After having gone through such an ordeal she did her best to only have positive attention towards …show more content…
her. Over the next eight years she rises to the top of her class and later becomes a teacher at Lowood for two years. Jane then feels the need to move on and continue with her life, she becomes determined to move on and acquires a new job, “ I have served here eight years; now all I want is to serve elsewhere” ( Bronte 88). Now with a new job she moves away and begins a new life and career with new people under new circumstances, being how determined she is to have a new life. As she starts her new life at Thornfield, she quickly realizes that her and her employer, Mr.
Rochester, have some type of chemistry together,” I was growing very lenient to my master:I was forgetting all his faults,for which i had once kept a sharp look-out.”( Bronte 186) Mr. Rochester is a harsh looking and not nice at first but once They both have strong opinions and as a woman, Jane is expected to agree and be polite, she does anything but that. As time goes on they get to know each other more and more, it becomes evident that they have intellectual similarities which is the foundation of their relationship. Although at first they did not get along, later they found each others company to be quite
delightful. After the appropriate amount of time they get in engaged, which strengths Jane’s strong will. So when it was discovered he was already married she became devastated. Her complex emotions towards the whole situation eventually made Jane decide to run away. Jane's absence of a year or so did not change what she felt for Mr. Rochester. Her determination to be with the one she loved no matter the circumstance had her following her heart and eventually gifted her with a happy life. The motifs and symbolism in her life had an effect on her that truly made jane a strong individual. Jane had such a stubbornness to keep pushing forward, all that was thrown at her she made the best of it and moved on. Charlotte Bronte, incorporates her own life in Jane Eyre to demonstrate how being courageous through difficult times in life may still grant you what ones heart desires. Having self motivation is key to it all, but in order to thrive it is a must in a place such as earth and to make it life worth living.
We learn that Jane is a young girl who is a victim of emotional and
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.
Jane Eyre has been acclaimed as one of the best gothic novels in the Victorian Era. With Bronte’s ability to make the pages come alive with mystery, tension, excitement, and a variety of other emotions. Readers are left with rich insight into the life of a strong female lead, Jane, who is obedient, impatient, and passionate as a child, but because of the emotional and physical abuse she endures, becomes brave, patient, and forgiving as an adult. She is a complex character overall but it is only because of the emotional and physical abuse she went through as a child that allowed her to become a dynamic character.
At the beginning of the novel while Jane is living under her aunt, Mrs. Reed, she is treated disrespectfully and cruelly. She accuses Jane of being deceitful and a troublesome girl in front of Mr. Brocklehurst, the master of Lowood School. Jane is so hurt by this accusation that she cannot stop herself from defending her well being, and she stands up to her aunt. She knows she is being treated disrespectful and has much more self-worth than ...
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.
Jane Eyre’s continuous search for love, a sense of belonging, and family are all thoroughly displayed by Charlotte Brontë. Jane starts off as a despised orphan who is captivated by the thought of love, believing that it will help her achieve happiness. Throughout the novel, Jane attempts to find different substitutes to fill the void in her life.
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 included. He needs to be in control of every aspect of his life, and he
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
The novel Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Bronte consists of continuous journey through Jane’s life towards her final happiness and freedom. Jane’s physical journeys contribute significantly to plot development and to the idea that the novel is a journey through Jane’s life. Each journey causes her to experience new emotions and an eventual change of some kind. These actual journeys help Jane on her four figurative journeys, as each one allows her to reflect and grow.
Explore how Charlotte Bronte presents the character of Jane Eyre in the novel of the same name, noting the effects of social and historical influences on the text. Jane Eyre was a plain and insignificant unloved orphan, she was cared for by her aunt Reed, who did not like her but was obliged to look after her because it was a request of Mr. Reed who was also Jane's uncle. Eventually she was sent away to school after fighting with her bullying cousin John and getting locked in the room her Uncle died in, and she fainted. The school was awful with a horrible owner and bad conditions; there was a typhus epidemic in which her friend Helen Burns died.
Pain, misery and disappointment are all a significant part of this world’s concepts of both life and love. A prime example of this is displayed in Charlotte Bronte’s novel, Jane Eyre, where the protagonist, Jane, suffers through a particularly difficult life; her love is constantly stripped from her the moment she is relishing it most. With Bronte’s introduction of Bertha Rochester, Jane’s never-ending cycle of disappointment and loss of love.
In the beginning of Jane Eyre, Jane struggles against Bessie, the nurse at Gateshead Hall, and says, I resisted all the way: a new thing for me…"(Chapter 2). This sentence foreshadows what will be an important theme of the rest of the book, that of female independence or rebelliousness. Jane is here resisting her unfair punishment, but throughout the novel she expresses her opinions on the state of women. Tied to this theme is another of class and the resistance of the terms of one's class. Spiritual and supernatural themes can also be traced throughout the novel.
“Jane Eyre” by Charlotte Bronte is a novel about an orphan girl growing up in a tough condition and how she becomes a mature woman with full of courage. Her life at Gateshead is really difficult, where she feels isolated and lives in fear in her childhood. Her parents are dead when she was little, her dead uncle begged his evil wife, Mrs. Reed, to take care of Jane until she becomes an adult. But Mrs. Reed does not keep her promise, no one treats Jane like their family members even treats her less than a servant. By the end of this essay it will be proven that Jane’s life at Gateshead has shaped her development as a young woman and bildungsroman.
In the novel ‘Jane Eyre’ by Charlotte Bronte, Jane shows self-confidence throughout the novel by having a sense of self-worth, and a trust in God and her morals. Jane develops her self confidence through the capacity to learn and the relationships she experiences. Although an oppressed orphan, Jane is not totally with confidence, she believes in what is right and shows passion and spirit at an early age. Helen and Miss Temple equips Jane with education and Christians values that she takes on throughout her life. Jane later also blossoms in self confidence under Mr. Rochester’s love and her family, the Rivers and newly discovered wealth. Bronte uses dialogue and 1st person narration to give an insight of the characters for the reader to see what the characters are saying and suggest what they are really thinking, and it shows Jane’s self-confidence growing in every stage of her life.