Crazy Jane Talks

For some sad reason, people in the days of this book and still today think that because people are poor and small and different that they are not as human as others who are wealthy and like everyone else. I think it is right for Jane to say this. He was treating her very poorly and if I was in her position, I would have done the same thing.

No & Yes. Jane’s fear of her legal guardian does not give her the right to be granted asylum under the law. However, her fear of being used for propaganda purposes does.

Reed--the woman whom conducted Jane prior to her schooling--slowly passed into the afterlife, Jane gingerly urges her aunt to love her in her death. She pleaded the dying woman to understand that she would not have hated her, would have loved her, if her aunt had so given her the possibility--she did not. Though--even by her deathbed--Jane Eyre disliked the woman wholeheartedly, she allowed her the peace of forgiveness and understanding that maturity had brought about to her through both her age and experience in love. She no longer found any anger, only sympathy towards the pathetic

In the beginning Jane seems a strong character who is very rebellious; In the Victorian times it was considered “deceitful” for a child too speak out. Jane wishes to overcome this. And she does when she says, “I must keep in good health, and not

Very occasionally if he was badly drunk, he would ask for permission to touch her. One night he had begun to kiss her breasts. She had looked down as his lips moved down to one of her nipples, and quietly she had said without moving away: ‘I would rather you did not do that, My Lord.’ (O’Connor

In Charlotte Bronte’s Jane Eyre, Jane is an orphan who is often mistreated by the family and other people who surround her. Faced with constant abuse from her aunt and her cousins, Jane at a young age questions the treatment she receives: "All John Reed’s violent tyrannies, all his sister’s proud indifference, all his mother’s aversion, all the servants’ partiality, turned up in my disturbed mind like a dark deposit in a turbid well. Why was I always suffering, always brow-beaten, always accused, forever condemned?" (27; ch. 2). Despite her early suffering, as the novel progresses Jane is cared for and surrounded by various women who act as a sort of "substitute mother" in the way they guide,

John, the son of her caretaker, gets Jane in trouble just because he can. His belief in his superiority causes Jane to profess her true thoughts. Jane is being punished by the reeds when she thinks to herself, “I resisted all the way: a new thing for me, and a circumstance which greatly strengthened the bad opinion Bessie and Miss Abbot were disposed to entertain of me” (13). Jane is blatantly ignoring the thoughts of others. She cares more about what she wants and less about the wants of others.

With these standards Jane feels she lacks equal standing, even with her romantic equal. And though she admits her love to him, she holds her desires back because of lack of confidence. She refuses his initial marriage proposal because of her own feelings. Though she finally finds a home in Thornfield Hall, she leaves her “delightful life” because she views herself as “poor, obscure, plain, and little... ” (290-291).

Within these lines, we encounter a profound reflection of the difficult situation of Jane as she is unable to voice her concerns and must adhere to what John commands. Jane has no authority or power as she is solely a woman in the patriarchy and will always be submissive to her

When Jane told Mr. Brocklehurst that the Psalms were not very interesting, he argued, “That proves you to have a wicked heart; and you must pray to God to change it: to give you a new and clean one: to take away your heart of stone and give you a heart of flesh” (Brontë 29). This statement showed that Mr. Brocklehurst was a very religious person as he became extremely sensitive about religion once it was brought up. When Jane who is a child said that the Psalms were not interesting, he became very defensive and tried to belittle and scare Jane for criticizing his religion as if he was being insulted. As a result, Jane gets a better idea of the world around her. The hatred against her was not limited to the

Jane the virgin is a romcoms tv series. It is about a Latin woman who follows her family tradition to save her virginity until she was married to a detective and her life was shattered when a doctor accidently inseminated her by mistake from a checkup. The father of the child was a married man and is the new manager of the hotel that Jane works and was her former teenage crush. The person who inseminated her was Rafael’s sister which is a lesbian. She slept with Rafael’s stepmom who is Rose who is a drug dealer.

Literature is an excellent tool for representations of social experiences and current topics of interest. Charlotte Brontë took the phenomenon of women’s hysteria and declared it the basis of her novel; inasmuch, she depicted characters of different social ranks and how they viewed the one hysterical woman. Before Bertha Mason is formally introduced to the reader, Jane Eyre describes the very distinct laugh she hears while accompanying Mrs Fairfax to the attics. Jane says it ‘was a curious laugh; distinct, formal, mirthless’ and a few moments later when she hears it again, she says that the laugh was a ‘low, syllabic tone, [that] terminated in an odd murmur.’ The termination of this curious laugh is symbolic of the recovery of a hysterical paroxysm, and according to John Conolly,

Readers learn early in the story that Jane Eyre does not fit contemporary society's idea of a proper woman.  As a child, Jane stands up to her aunt, Mrs. Reed, on more than one recorded occasion when Jane feels she has been treated unjustly (Brontë 28, 37).  At one point, Jane bluntly tells her aunt, "I declare, I do not love you: I dislike you the worst of anybody in the world except John Reed [Jane's cousin]" (37).  This was at best improper behavior for a child in Victorian society, and it was most definitely seen as improper by Mrs. Reed who grows to hate Jane, calling her "tiresome, ill-conditioned" and "scheming" (26).  But her aunt's reprimands and hatred do not deter Jane from speaking up in the face of injustice.

One of the most famous passages from the novel comes from Jane’s very clearly feminist inner monologue. She states that “Women are supposed to be very calm generally: but women feel just as men feel…they suffer from too rigid a restraint…” (130). Jane, as a forward-thinking and progressive protagonist, exemplifies in every sense the essence of gender equality of her time. Bronte reveals the limitations experienced by the female sex and the effects of those limitations on her protagonist. By doing this, the author uses Jane to fulfill her feminist and pro-equality agenda. Another example of Jane’s inner monologue comes from her irritation with Rochester. When Rochester showers Jane with gifts soon after their engagement, Jane’s “…cheek[s] burned with a sense of annoyance and degradation” (309). She becomes increasingly irritated with Rochester because of the complete lack of respect Rochester has for her feelings due to his joy of becoming engaged. Because Jane is already considered inferior to Rochester because of her lack of wealth and her status as an unmarried woman, being pelted with lavish tokens of affection is less than an ideal situation for her. This imbalance between the two highlights the already sexist society of the Victorian era. After Jane’s engagement to Rochester, she recounts the fact that she “…could not, in those days, see God for His creature: of whom I had made an idol” (316). She becomes blinded by the overpowering love she held for Rochester, to the extent that she put him on a pedestal, seeing him as an “idol”, and not a human being capable of fallacies. Bronte uses this dangerous mental circumstance Jane is in to illuminate the clear disparity between men and women of the time. Jane’s infatuation with Rochester serves as an important device implemented by Bronte to further her argument against sexist Victorian

In the society in which Jane lives, men are believed to be superior to women in any circumstance. Mr. Brocklehurst declares, "I have a little boy, younger than you, who knows six Psalms by heart" (28). During Jane’s early years, she is constantly surrounded by male figures such as John Reed and Mr. Brocklehurst,who always belittle her and assure she remains in a submissive position. When Jane answers to Mr. Brocklehurst that she does not like the book of Psalms, he compares her to his son. He makes it very apparent that his son is better than Jane due to his love of Psalms, and also expresses his belief that Jane obtains a wicked heart. The situation in which Jane experiences the immediate comparison to Mr. Brocklehurst’s son prompts her to realize that she will always remain less than any man, despite the situation. Later on in the novel Jane expresses, “Women are supposed to be very calm generally: but women feel just as men feel; they need exercise for their faculties, and a field for their efforts just as their brothers do..." (108). In this section of the text from the novel, Jane expresses her frustration on the fact that women are constantly pushed into situations where their predominant worries are based on simple things such as cooking, knitting and cleaning. She believes that women have a right to express their feelings just as much as men do.