Deception In Charlotte Bronte's Jane Eyre

Antoinette attempts to control Mr Rochester's feelings, which is deceitful. She is also deceiving herself by thinking that their love can be rekindled by a magic 'Obeah' potion. In addition The extract I have chosen from 'Jane Eyre' is in Chapter 19 where when Mr Rochester dresses up as a gypsy fortune teller and reads Jane's fortune based on her physical appearance. Mr Rochester deceives Jane into thinking he is a gypsy woman, so that she will confess her feelings to him. Both extracts explore themes of enchantment, superstition, and self-deception. Furthermore, When Comparing Jane’s self-deception with Virginia Wolff’s short story “The Mark on the Wall,” where the narrator has a perception that leads to an association that leads to reflections about the nature of the mind. Books such as Jane Eyre and the mark on the wall use this key emotion (self-deception) in the story to show the characters inner thoughts and feelings that truly attract many people. In addition,

Jane Eyre Self-Honesty Throughout Charlotte Bronte’s novel “Jane Eyre,” Jane’s Character is continually tested. Jane is constantly pushed by men who believe they are better than. No matter what Jane encounters in life she stays true to herself. She ignores all social and economic reasons to listen to the men in her life and is honest about what she wants in life. Janes Honesty is continual throughout the entire novel.

Rochester and St. John Rivers display very similar characteristics throughout the novel, such as their social standings, severe dispositions, and proposals to Jane. Both men come from wealthy and respected families. Edward Rochester is born into a high-class family and owns multiple estates, such as Thornfield Hall and Ferndean Manor. Likewise, St. John comes from an esteemed and well-known family that Mr. Oliver, the wealthiest man in Morton, speaks well of when questioned about the topic by Jane. Secondly, both Mr. Rochester and St. John come off as harsh and distant until Jane gets to know them well. Mr. Rochester is brusque and asks Jane many questions about herself, but discloses very little information about his background. During her time with St. John, she attempts to make him disclose to her his feelings towards Rosamond Oliver and says, “‘With all his firmness and self-control,’ thought I, ‘he tasks himself too far: locks every feeling and pang within — expresses, confesses, imparts nothing’” (373; ch. ). Lastly, both Mr. Rochester and St. John ask Jane to marry them. Jane almost marries Mr. Rochester, but leaves him after realizing that he is already married. She refuses to marry St. John because she doesn’t love him and returns to Mr. Rochester, who she eventually does marry and spends many happy years with. Altogether, Mr. Rochester and St. John have similarities such as their respected families, their distant natures, and their proposals to

To contain a life, or even some fraction of it, in a single book is certainly a tall order among tall orders. But Jane Erye is so thoroughly and immersively suffused with the minutest realities of adolescence and early adulthood that I can’t help but see every life in it. The eponymous heroine’s story is mine, yours, his, hers, theirs, anyone’s, everyone’s. Analyzing the novel via Virginia Woolf’s literary catechism, however, yields something of an oddity. For all its banal but tangible plausibility, which was so many pages and episodes and humanities in the making, Brontë’s novel does not accord with the ideals Woolf crusades for, namely concepts that the latter refers to as “integrity” and “incandescence.” Who’s afraid of Virginia Woolf?

Many themes are brought into the readers' attention in Charlotte Brontë's Jane Eyre and when first reading the novel, we all tend to see it as a work built around the theme of family and Jane's continuous search for home and acceptance. The love story seems to fall into second place and I believe that the special relationship between Jane and Mr. Rochester needs to be thoroughly discussed and interpreted, because it holds many captivating elements, such as mystery, passion or even betrayal. The aim of this essay is to analyze the love story between the two protagonists and to illustrate how the elements forming their relationship resemble the ones in fairy tales. Jane Eyre has been often compared to fairy tales such as

"'The marriage can not go on: I declare the existence of an impediment'" (306).   Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Bronte, is the story of an orphaned girl who is sent to live at Gateshead Hall with Mrs. Reed and her three cousins, whom Jane doesn't get along with. At the age of ten, Mrs. Reed sends Jane away to Lowood Institution, an all girls' school, where she spends the next eight years of her life. At the age of eighteen, Jane leaves Lowood and accepts the position as governess at Thornfield Hall. Mr. Rochester, the owner of Thornfield Hall, and Jane fall madly in love and plan to get married, but little does Jane know, Mr. Rochester has a terrible secret that could ruin Jane's life.

Jane Eyre is a powerful novel with many secrets in the storyline between the characters. One of the most shocking secrets was finding out that Rochester has a wife. Since his older brother would inherit his father's fortune, Rochester needed to secure his own future with a marriage for the sake of money, not love. So, he married Bertha, who was both wealthy and beautiful.

We first encounter this relationship between Jane and Rochester during their first dramatic meeting. She encounters him when he falls off his horse and she is required to give him assistance. Jane’s first impression of his face is that ‘He had a dark face, with stern features and a heavy brow’. This may portray the dimness in his face awaiting to be enlightened by a woman which, in this case Jane. Further on in this chapter, unaware of who he is, on her return home, Jane is amazed to discover that the gentleman she assisted in the road was her employer, Mr. Edward Rochester. Jane’s future relationship with Rochester is most clearly set out in their first meeting. Although without any money, reserved and socially dependent, Jane is not

He is also very much used to getting what he wants. When he orders Jane to play him some piano, he says, “Excuse my tone of command, I am used to saying, ‘Do this,’ and it is done: I cannot alter my customary habits for one new inmate,” (Brontë 123); and although he does excuse his tone, he refuses to change it. Throughout the story, Mr. Rochester falls in love with Jane, and they plan to be married. He insists on buying silk dresses and beautiful jewels, yet Jane only allows him to buy her simple things, saying, “I was glad to get him out of the silk warehouse, and the out of the jeweller’s shop,” (Brontë 274). On their wedding day, Jane discovers that he already has a wife - a murderous lunatic- and runs away, only to return a year later to find out that Thornfield has burnt down, and that Mr. Rochester was blinded and lost a hand in the fire. The reader sees that Mr. Rochester is much humbler, living only with two servants to wait on him. His humbleness shows even more upon his proposal to Jane, for when she says yes, he asks her “A poor blind man who you will have to lead about by the hand?” (Brontë 458) and then again, “A crippled man, twenty years older than you, whom you will have to wait on?”

In the late 1700s, Romanticism was created to convey that horrors were diseases of excessive consciousness. Literary Critic, Harold Bloom asserts this concept as many Gothic and Romanticism novels apply them. The themes presented in Charlotte Bronte’s Jane Eyre exemplify these principles of that Rochester has with his excessive consciousness. Through his paranoia about his secret wife, manipulative acts towards Jane, and the doubt for her love for him, validates Harold Bloom’s assertion that the excessive conscious is the cause for the conflicts that occur throughout the novel.

Jane was devastated after hearing the news that she and Mr. Rochester could not be wed, because Mr. Rochester had already been married. After being completely lied to and deceived Jane has every right to leave Mr. Rochester for example. “I would not ascribe vice to him; I would not say he had betrayed me; but the attributes of stainless truth were gone from his idea, and from his idea, and from his presence I must go: THAT I perceived well. With Mr. Rochester feeling cheated out on his marriage to Miss Rochester his actions can also be justified for example. “Compare these clear eyes with the red balls yonder, this face with that mask-this form with that bulk; then judge, priest of the gospel and man of the law, and remember with what judgment

In Bronte’s Jane Eyre, the motif of redemption reveals an important theme of the protagonist’s life choices she has made while at Thornfield and Moorhouse. After the marriage disaster, Jane Eyre has decided to leave Thornfield. She has had enough drama. As she was about to get married, later she recently found out that Mr. Rochester had a Wife. With his wife being so insane, as a result, he locked her up in the attic of his home.

Edward Fairfax Rochester is an archetypal Byronic hero. He seems “moody” and unattainable and could often be seen as an antihero, however is capable of feeling and displaying strong emotions, as can be seen throughout Jane Eyre. Although perhaps the reader should view Mr Rochester as the malefactor in the novel due to his ill treatment of Bertha Mason primarily, along with the conflicted emotions he causes Jane and the heartbreak she suffers because of him, he does present a good case owing the fault of

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.”

In writing my original story Forbidden Questions, I was required to incorporate language features of the mid-nineteenth century and features of Romanticism and Gothicism. Through the use of pathetic fallacy, symbolism and mystery, I attempted to reflect the writing style of Charlotte Brontë through the perspective of my young protagonist Sophia. Charlotte Brontë’s, Jane Eyre, is strongly recognized as a romantic novel, as the emotions of Jane throughout the story heavily influenced her actions. Through the use of pathetic fallacy, Jane’s emotions are portrayed to the reader in a method that connects the character with the features of nature. When Jane first attends Lowood Institution, she struggles to adapt to the strict regime, and her feelings