Charlotte Bronte 's Jane Eyre

In Charlotte Brontë’s heartfelt novel she portrays the enduring challenging love story of Jane Eyre. Her everlasting quest for love is not fully obtained without enduring many hardships throughout her journey that question her independence. For the duration of the novel the protagonist Jane Eyre continuously battles the harsh endeavor of love versus autonomy. Brontë exhibits the conflict of love versus autonomy throughout the novel through Jane’s infinite yearning for love romantically, internally, and through kinship while facing obstacles that put her freedom into question.

Through a close reading of the selected passage of Charlotte Brontë’s Jane Eyre: An Autobiography, a reader can see that Jane attempts to separate herself from her decisions by personifying her emotions and giving them a specific voice, which strongly reflects the societal views of the time. At this point in the story, Jane has discovered, on her wedding day, that Mr. Rochester is still married to a woman named Bertha, and that woman still lives in his house. Distraught, Jane locks herself in her room and tries to decide what she should do. When she wakes up the next day, she is again confronted with what she needs to do in the wake of her discovery.

Rochester’s propaganda lingers throughout the rest of the Thornfield section when he informs Jane that he is due to marry Blanche Ingrim, and that she is set for a job in Ireland (250-251). The sole purpose of this fib was to test Janes jealousy and experiment her reaction towards the situation; which is an evident sign of Rochester’s extent of manipulation. Her reaction leads Rochester to reveal that what he truly wants is Jane’s hand in marriage. The night before the marriage, Bertha escapes her room and rips Janes veil in half; this event following the proposal causes Rochester to attempt to convince Jane it is merely a dream. (Bronte.264)

Written by Charlotte Brontë, Jane Eyre tells the story of its title character as she matures and experiences all that life has to offer in 19th century England. Jane Eyre grows up as an orphan and seeks work as a governess at Thornfield Hall, where she meets and falls in love with Mr. Edward Rochester. After discovering that he is already married, she is introduced to St. John Rivers; he asks her to marry him for the sole purpose of being a missionary’s wife and she instead returns to Mr. Rochester, who she truly loves, and marries him. Throughout her journey, she learns many thing about Mr. Edward Rochester and St. John Rivers. Both men display similar characteristics, but as foils they exhibit many different characteristics as well. Both

Ultimately, the relationship of Jane Eyre and Edward Rochester consists of each on being the guiding light, or literal sight, for the other. Rochester becomes the happiness in Jane’s life and depends on her to lead him by the hand through his darkness, or actual blindness. Their love together is the bright light in their relationship that will face constant scorn and derision for its age gap, partial disability, and station

the Jane still only at the age of ten has to stand up against 'the sea

Jane’s passion is known both to get her in trouble and help her out of the toughest of situations. Maria Yuen, author of the article “Two Crises of Decision in Jane Eyre”, wisely observes that “This need of love and hunger of the heart precipitates the emotional and moral crisis in the novel” (Yuen 1). Her heart yearns for affection, but the very love that she craves would in fact tear her apart. This love would violate both her morals and self respect. Initially, the love is forbidden because of their different classes, but her passion causes both her to long for Rochester and him to pursue her.

Furthermore, Jane says “I care for myself. The more solitary, the more friendless, the more unsustained I am, the more I will respect myself” (Chapter 27, Bronte.) This statement greatly represents the growth that Jane has undergone. She no longer dreads the solitude that once haunted her because she respects herself enough to realize that she did not deserve to experience such great dismay. Through independence and self-recognition, Jane has discovered the importance of loving oneself. Without the reliance on the thoughts of others, the once extremely troubled girl found bliss through a lack of outside control. In regards to her relationship with Mr. Rochester, Jane understands that she must leave him behind to maintain her own well-being. She does not allow the wealth or proclaimed love from Rochester to skew her decisions and she does not linger to dominate the life of her lover. Instead, she moves forward to continue her endless pursuit of happiness and independence.

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Jane chooses to return to Rochester and become the eyes and arms of Mr. Rochester by declaring, “Reader, I married him” (Bronte 861). Jane’s decision to marry Rochester shows the demolition of the

The excerpt from Virginia Woolfe's A Room of One's Own expresses the idea that Charlotte Bronte's works are interrupted and twisted by her interjections of her own sentiments and longings into her writings. Woolfe notes how, in Bronte's novel Jane Eyre, the titular character gives a long reflection of her wish to be free to do as she wants, instead of suffering from an imposition of tranquility. Then, suddenly, she is broken out of her reflection by a laugh, resuming the novel's regular plot. In Woolfe's view, this interrupts the flow of the novel. She does note that Bronte is a brilliant writer, but claims that her brilliance is not expressed in its entirety; Bronte interrupts her writing with her own sentiments.

Inspiration of Jane Eyre: The Layers of Love Tammy Tran University of Houston-Clear Lake   Abstract The type of speech is a speech to inspire; more specifically, the speech is to inspire life lessons from the experiences of Jane Eyre, a British fictional character from the novel Jane Eyre. Jane Eyre personifies love. She embodies not just love of romance, but also love of friendship, love of enemies, and love of herself. Through the difficulties she experienced as a child and as an adult, Jane would be a great example of how love developed her character and how others may be affected by it.

During the novel, Jane Eyre, Charlotte Brontë created the traditional values of what Jane lives by and what she has to live by. The start of the novel starts off with Jane Eyre, a ten year old orphan whose living with the Reeds. With different phases of Jane’s life span occurring and different characteristics of Jane developing, she is at a place where she isn 't familiar with. In the years when she was living with the Reeds, they always showed her the ways on how they think she should live, instead of how she needs to live in order to develop into someone that is able to be independent in the future. Many times, she is constantly pushing past the Victorian Era normality and standards at the beginning of the novel. Even though at the end

Jane Eyre is a story of a quest to be loved. Jane searches, not just for romantic love, but also for a sense of being valued and belonging. However, this search is constantly hindered by her need for independence. She starts of as an unloved orphan who is desperate to find love and a purpose. For example, Jane says to Helen, “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”. However, over the course of the novel, Jane learns to gain love without harming herself in the process. Although she is despised by her aunt, Mrs. Reed, she finds parental figures throughout the book. Miss Temple and Bessie care for Jane and give her love and guidance. However, Jane does not feel as though she has found

In Graham’s Magazine, another anonymous reviewer suggested that Rochester’s character was dangerous and immoral, saying, “No woman who had ever truly loved could have mistaken so completely the Rochester type, or could have made her heroine love a man of proud, selfish, ungovernable appetites, which no sophistry can lift out of lust.” Thus, he intimated that any author who would contrive to have her heroine fall in love with such a total rake would be immoral herself and unknowing of what true love is. He went one step further to say, “We accordingly think that if the innocent young ladies of our land lay a premium on profligacy, by marrying dissolute rakes for the honor of reforming them, à la Jane Eyre, their benevolence will be of questionable utility to the world.” In this, he suggested that the depiction of Jane and Rochester’s relationship would cause young women of the time to emulate Jane’s “romantic wickedness.”