Deception In Charlotte Bronte's Jane Eyre

The first secret plays a vital role in sparking a relationship between Jane Eyre and Mr. Rochester, bringing a sense of

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?”

"'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.

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

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.

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

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?

Among the themes presented through Jane Eyre, throughout the novel, Rochester must have this paranoia of the secret of his wife being in hiding. By exposing this secret,

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

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

Fiction Fact One: Jane Eyre is the main character. She is a strong, independent, Christian woman who holds very strongly to her morals and values. Some of the characters in the novel don't think very fondly of Jane, especially the Reeds, but the majority of the novel's characters like Jane. The death of her parents when she was a little girl, shape Jane into the person she is.

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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.”

Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte is a classic Victorian novel that shows the “epic love story” between the heroine Jane and Mr Rochester. However, if a reader was to delve deeper and look between the lines, they would realise that Bronte’s novel in fact covers a wide range of societal issues circulating in 1840’s England. I am going to be exploring the connotations of colonialism, the blame of the mentally ill, and the submissiveness of females that are described in chapter 27, when Mr Rochester explains to Jane who his wife is and her backstory.