Comparison Of ' Jane Eyre ' And ' Pride And Prejudice '

Jane Eyre is a personal journey for independence and belonging in an extremely unpleasant society. Jane Eyre is very distinctive from other romantic pieces of the era, in the fact that it portrays a woman searching for equality and dignity through independence from those who treat her as a second hand citizen. Finding independence is Jane’s only way to combat the situation she is stuck in time and time again throughout her life. Throughout Jane Eyre, Jane, attempts to find independence and a sense of belonging, while also attempting to form open and equal relationships.

Jane Eyre and Pride and Prejudice have similar themes. Jane Eyre, the main character in Charlotte Bronte’s book Jane Eyre, and Elizabeth Bennett of Pride and Prejudice are both independent women. Unafraid of society’s opinion of them, they regularly break the culture’s standards of “right” and “wrong”. Elizabeth Bennett was more independent than Jane Eyre because she did not try to be perfect and she was not obsessed with marrying someone. Despite society’s standards of how a woman should act, Elizabeth was herself even though it meant that she may never get married.

By analyzing social class in Pride and Prejudice and Jane Eyre this essay will compare these two

Even though, Elizabeth is very smart she is too quick to let her opinions stop her from understanding the people around her. She also lets her emotions cloud her judgment, especially when her friend Charlotte Lucas decides to marry Mr. Collins. She states, “And to the pang of a friend disgracing herself and sunk in her esteem, was added the distressing conviction that it was impossible for that friend to be tolerably happy in the lot she had chosen”(87). About halfway through the book, Elizabeth realizes ‘“How despicably have I acted!” she cried. “I, who have prided myself on my discernment... Pleased with the preference of one, and offended by the neglect of the other, on the very beginning of our acquaintance, I have courted prepossession and ignorance and driven reason away, where either were concerned. Till this moment, I never knew myself”’. She sees that her clouded judgment has misled her in seeing the true nature of Darcy and Wickham. Towards the end Elizabeth and Darcy are finally together and she reveals to him that she was being rude towards him at the beginning and he tells her that he was attracted to her because of her ‘liveliness ’, she tells him “You may as well call it impertinence at once. It was very little less”. In observing this evolution Austen shows us that we need to put our pride

Jane Eyre’s life was full of oppression, neglect and sorrow. The novel was formed around a few main ideas. One of those would be the search of love and acceptance. Jane wanted to find a family so desperately and she wanted to belong to people. More than this though, Jane wanted to be treated equally. She was denied equality because of her social status, her income,her lack of “beauty” and most of all because of her gender. The book Jane Eyre shows the struggle that women face while attempting to overcome oppression and inequality in the Victorian era.

At first glance Jane Eyre may seem to be a young woman with semi-bad taste in men, but she is actually much more complex a character than that. Jane is driven by her craving for freedom, her desire to be useful, and her yearning to fit in somewhere. She is rich in character with a stubborn, strong willed, and passionate personality. She is not afraid to stand up for what she believes in, whether it is a family she wants to have, or a marriage that is unfair and without balance. As an adult, Jane is a level headed young woman, but as a child she let her passions get the best of her. She tones down this passion quite a bit as she grows older and gains more experience, and channels it into other areas of her life.

Austen's use of the comparative adjective “Ah! Jane, I take your place now, and you must go lower, because I am a married woman.” further shows the importance of one's marital status even over age. Austen challenges the societal norms of her time, by creating a radical perspective through the character Elizabeth, who turns down Darcy's marriage proposal telling him in a dismissive tone “If I could feel gratitude, I would now thank you. But I cannot – I have never desired your good opinion, and you have certainly bestowed it most unwillingly.”.

In Jane Eyre, Rochester and Jane’s love appear comparable to Romeo and Juliet’s love. The couples have similar conflicts in their relationships that drive these stories. Not only in between the people in the relationship, but those surrounding it. As the stories revolve around them, it exposes many comparisons between them. They are similar in ways such as both men had former loves which were holding them back at first, both couples fell in love with each other almost rapidly, and no one approved of their love.

Charlotte Bronte's Jane Eyre written during the Victorian era in the nineteenth century, stars Jane, an orphaned, isolated girl, living with a family that disapproves of her. As she grew, she exceled at school, became a governess, and falls in love with Edward Rochester her employer. Furthermore, after being deceived by him, Jane goes to Marsh End, where she reclaims her aspect and indentifies her own strength. By novel's end, Jane became a strong, independent woman. Charlotte Bronte's Jane Eyre still raises relevant questions to readers; like (4) how abuse or unfair treatment makes a person angry or bitter? or (10) how love can transform appearances in the eye of the beholder?

Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte is a gothic and a feminist novel. The main character of the novel is Jane, she is a small, plain and poor child who grows an orphan and is adopted by her uncle, who later dies. She is the first female character to claim her right to feel strong about her emotions and act on her convictions. She lives a long journey and her novel let’s us know all about it.

Elizabeth thinks of Darcy as being “the proudest, most disagreeable man in the world” (15). After Darcy discomfits Elizabeth, “She is tolerable, but not handsome enough to tempt me” (13), she herself becomes prideful and prejudiced against him. Prejudice also is an issue for Darcy because he dislikes Elizabeth in the beginning for her low social status, for being impecunious and socially inept family: “Their struggle is as much as against each other as it is against the pressure of society or family. The novel presents a balance of power not only between two characters but between two conflicting modes of judgment” (Bloom 50), but Darcy is forced to deal with his pride and prejudice when he falls in love with Elizabeth. Elizabeth rejects Darcy’s first proposal based mostly on his pride and condescension.

‘Jane Eyre’ highlights the ways in which the proletariat is oppressed by the bourgeoisie. As such, the novel could be regarded as a critique of the strict social class hierarchy in Victorian England, particularly in terms of the despicable mistreatment of Jane at the hands of her supposed “social superior” John Reed.

We never lose sight that Jane is plain, ordinary, and not the sexually repressed spinster who cannot resist her sexuality, as portrayed in in the critic Mary Pooveys argument in her essay ‘The Anathematized Race’ (Reader p. 195) who states, ‘The figure who epitomised the Victorian domestic ideal was also the figure who tried to destroy it.’ (Reader, 195). On the contrary, Bronte used this uncertain profession for Jane to illustrate the difference in social class and to portray the story from both a servant’s and aristocratic point of view, (CD 3) whilst also depicting Jane’s journey from her humble beginnings to equal stature with the man she loved.

Jane Austen and Charlotte Bronte explore social class in a number of different ways throughout their novels Pride and the Prejudice and Jane Eyre. They do this through the use of stylistic devices which in turn appeals to their different audiences. Both Jane and Charlotte are notable writers for their remarkable texts. Jane Austen is known for playing a revolutionary role in the generation of English female literature, which was counteracted by this piece- and Charlotte Bronte also developed her feminist thoughts, which have been displayed throughout her novels. By analysing social class in Pride and Prejudice and Jane Eyre this essay will compare these two women writers’ texts and display how social class is presented

Comparison between the novel Jane Eyre by Charlotte Brontë, and the homologous film from 1996