Examples Of Forgiveness In Jane Eyre

“I sincerely, deeply, fervently long to do what is right; and only that” (426). Throughout Jane Eyre, the characters struggle to live out and develop their faiths, according both to God’s will and their own. In Charlotte Bronte’s Jane Eyre, faith and religion are displayed in different forms through the characters of Helen Burns, St. John, and Jane Eyre.

“. . .if others don’t love me, I would rather die than live -- I cannot bare to be solitary and hated, Helen. Look here; to gain some real affection from. . .whom I truly love, I would willingly submit to have the bone of my arm broken. . .’” (Brontë 82). Explanation: Jane Eyre, for all of her life prior to Lowood Academy, was disliked by her superiors and hated by those who should be considered her comrades. Finding comfort and love in Helen Burns, her first childhood friend, she confides her youthful desire to be loved. At such a young age, Jane desired even the most dilute of love, no matter the cost. Her immaturity hinders her happiness, causing her to feel as if she has been severely deprived of such fondness. Her tantrum not only leaves her friend stunned, but she learns a most valuable lesson in faith and doing what is most right with God that lasts with her throughout her journeys of woe and worry along Mr. Rochester’s side.

Forgiveness is an emotion that is hard for people to accept. In the play The Crucible, by Arthur Miller the story focuses on forgiving during the Salem Witch trials of 1692. The character of the play, Elizabeth Proctor, deals with pardoning her husband's sin of adultery. Through Elizabeth's change from a cold wife to a caring and loving spouse, Arthur Miller illustrates forgiveness.

Forgiveness. There have been a lot of people in history, in books, and on the news asking for it from their peers, and people around them. People in today’s society have asked for forgiveness, on social media, and on local/national news. While reading the Crucible by Arthur Miller, some of the characters in the play have been asking for forgiveness for some of the bad things they’ve done to either them, or people around them. What i’ll be writing about today is how the characters in the play have asked for and either received forgiveness, or were denied forgiveness from their peers around them.

“May your eyes never shed such stormy, scalding, heart-wrung tears as poured from mine… so hopeless and so agonized as in that hour... for may you never, like me, dread to be an instrument of evil to what you wholly love.” (Chapter 27) This quote from the novel, Jane Eyre, emphasizes on the main character’s priorities and values as a human being and a Christian. Throughout the novel Jane sacrifices her own happiness and pleasure for others in order to stay in line with her personal beliefs. Her decisions and sacrifices are what guide the plot throughout novel.

One would think that she would grow up to be unforgiving, but Jane explains that she “must resist those who punish [her] unjustly. It is as natural as that [she] should love those who show [her] affection, or submit to punishment when [she] feel it is deserved” (Bronte 119). Jane saying this to her young friend, Helen, exemplifies how Jane was beyond her years and how she grew into being a young woman of wisdom. Her development throughout the novel is shown by her beginning as an isolated orphan in her society, yet she ended as an heiress with a family of her own. Jane who creates her own family and happiness by being independent, remaining curious and maintaining self-respect.

Payton Fahey Mrs. Wunderle English Composition 2 22 February 2024 Cancel Culture is becoming oversaturated Forgiveness, an intentional decision to let go of resentment and anger. Forgiveness is as easy to give as it ever has been. There are plenty of ways to forgive one another. How meaningful your forgiveness varies between each individual approach. In “The Crucible” by Arthur Miller, the characters are extremely unforgiving and call for witchcraft on anyone that opposes them, even just a minor inconvenience that could have been ignored.

Forgiveness can be tough to tackle. Whether it be forgiving a friend, a family member, or something that happened in the past, it is extremely difficult to move on without forgiveness. The process of forgiveness can grow easier with age. Although for some, the process of forgiving never becomes easier. They live their whole lives feeling bad for themselves instead of forgiving the actions of the past and moving forward with their lives. The sooner one learns to forgive, the easier it will be to move on. In the novel The Kite Runner by Khaled Hosseini, Amir and Soraya both struggle with forgiving events from the past.

Despite the abuse Jane endures in the opening chapters and the sympathy this subsequently creates the reader can take some comfort in knowing that Jane is recalling this from some place in the future and this therefore implies that Jane has reached some sort of fulfilment. The reflective nature of which Jane retells some of her stories reflects this idea. Jane states that she could not answer the question of “why I thus suffered” but declares “now I see it clearly.” This suggests that Jane has given her childhood sufferings much thought and has found solace in answering her question of why. As Jane Eyre is a bildungsroman the sympathy one may feel towards Jane is weathered slightly by the knowledge that she is writing her story from a place of peace and suggested self-content.

Helen Burns is Jane’s best friend at Lowood Institute. Helen is extremely patient, forgiving and wise, but her most important aspect is her devout religious faith. Even when Helen is being chastised and physically beaten in school, Helen accepts her punishment with the grace of a martyr. At Lowood when Mr. Brocklehurst orders Jane to stand on a stool while he tells the school that she is a liar, Jane was there ashamed, embarrassed and in massive anger. Five o’clock stuck; school was dismissed and all were gone into the refectory to drink tea.

The novel Jane Eyre is about a young lady who was treated unfairly and all she really wanted was happiness and kindness. Many characters get introduced in this novel and many of them change, but Jane Eyre would have to be the one who changes the most. She doesn’t change in a physical way, but her mind set changes. Throughout the novel Eyre becomes frustrated, hopeless, and open minded.

Throughout Jane Eyre Charlotte Brontë uses the character Jane as a tool to comment on the oppression that women were forced to endure at the time. Jane can be seen as representative of the women who suffered from repression during the Victorian period, a time when patriarchy was commonplace. Brontë herself was affected by the time period, because according to Wolfe, she was deprived “experience and intercourse and travel.” (70) Thus Jane offers a unique perspective as a woman who is both keenly aware of her position and yet trapped by it despite repeated attempts to elevate herself and escape the burden placed on by her different suitors. Although superficially it seems that Jane wants to break away from the relationships that further

In Jane Eyre, the character, Helen Burns, demonstrates patience, shows forgiveness and shares wisdom specifically towards Jane. Miss Scatcherd criticizes Helen consistently and one day during history class she commands Helen to stand in the middle of the large schoolroom, Jane expected she would show signs of great distress and shame; but to her surprise she neither wept nor blushed. Composed, though grave, she stood, the central mark of all eyes. [p. 44]. Helen exhibits patience by enduring Miss Scatcherd’s punishment without becoming annoyed and remaining calm. Conversely, Jane explains she wouldn’t have been able to remain composed and would fight against Miss Scatcherd. Later on, Jane expresses her hatred for Mrs. Reed and how she cannot

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