Jane Eyre Essay

with the Reeds Jane becomes bold and begins to consciously speak her thoughts to Mrs.Reed knowing that punishment isn’t going to be inflicted upon her: “Speak I must: I had been trodden on severely, and must turn... ‘I am not deceitful: If I were I should say I loved you; but I declare I do not love you’” (43-44). She mainly speaks her thoughts to Mrs. Reed by spitting the words that she used to describe Jane back at her making Mrs. Reed realize the flaws in what she said about Jane, This is a…

During the first third of the book I was half expecting Jane to commit suicide. She was extremely pessimistic and when coupled with Bronte liking to describe things in a lot of detail, this led to very long sections of book where it felt like reading an emo-middle schooler’s diary. Her story starts in Mrs. Reed’s house where the reader learns that she is an orphan and the woman who promised to take care of her is doing a subpar job. The lack of a parental figure is one of the biggest things that…

In her novel, Jane Eyre, written during the 19th century Victorian England, Charlotte Brontë’s explores many of the pressing issues of the time period in a captivating, romantic almost mystery novel. She writes the story of Jane Eyre, a young orphaned girl of 10 years of age, growing up in her lately deceased uncle’s middle class home; a mistreated, outcaste among her relatives. By their treatment of her, the reader is presented with the lonely, harsh, and unfair life of a poor orphaned girl who…

The gothic novel, Jane Eyre, focuses on the life of a young, orphaned girl, who learns to balance her precarious station in 19th century England- a society whose culture is dictated by rigid social castes and protocols. She grows up in household of her Aunt, Mrs Reed, after the death of her parents, where she experiences neglect and estrangement until she moves to a charity school at the age of ten. The novel briefly narrates the story of her cousins, Georgiana and Eliza Reed, through brief…

This is from Bertha’s point of view starting from page 297 (A) after it is revealed that Mr. Rochester in fact has a wife living in Thornfield Hall up to page 299. Also a flashback to page 286 (the ripping of the wedding veil)*Note: Bertha cannot physically speak and can only make sounds, so all the dialogue by her will be her thoughts* My hands were not tied today so I exercised them to count the seconds till Grace Poole arrived “one…two…three...four…five.” After five, I commenced again and…

In the end, Jane rejects all three ideas of Christianity. She does not believe in the cruel and hypocritical religious notion of Brocklehurst. Unlike Helen, she speaks up for her beliefs, such as the time she is dragged into the red-room by the Reed family, and believes that “loving your enemy” is a ridiculous doctrine. Finally, she does not have a fake passion toward religion like St. John. Instead, Jane discovers her own standing on religion while still believing in morality and in God. For…

In chapter two of Charlotte Bronte’s Jane Eyre, Bronte displays imagery and symbolism to create suspense for readers as they read later on in the novel. These techniques in use by Bronte gives the reader ideas of what is to come for Jane. Imagery is presented throughout chapter to describe Jane's empathy and knowledge in the red room. As Jane is being put in the red room she says “Oh! I saw a light, and I thought a ghost would come”(Bronte 21). The words “light” and “ghost” draw…

did not conform to societal norms were considered to be mad. Bertha Mason, one of the main antagonists of Jane Eyre. When her true identify is finally revealed she is said to be mad just like her mother. Bertha Mason was most likely not originally mad, the actions of both her brother, Mr. Mason, and husband Mr. Rochester helped to produce the mentally “unstable” character that is seen in Jane Eyre, who acts with malevolence to those who have wronged her.. The Victorian era was marked by…

Rochester propose to Jane, but St. John, a man who she finds out is actually her cousin, asks her the same thing. After refusing to subdue to Mr. Rochester’s request for marriage she runs off to preserve her independence and stumbles upon the Moor House, where she finds the Rivers siblings. St. John request for Jane to travel to India with him to help be a teacher, but only if she becomes his wife. Again, Jane feels as though St. John is trying to limit her freedom…

Pride & Prejudice, & Jane Eyre Although the leading ladies of Moll Flanders, Pride & Prejudice, & Jane Eyre may seem very different at first, they do have one thing in common; these are women who understand the power of their beauty, whether it be physical or not. Having this understanding, and using it wisely, enables all three women to obtain the worldly goods, and marital partner(s) they desire. Starting with Moll, and moving in a chronological order via Elizabeth to Jane, this paper seeks…