Examples Of Orphan Hood In Jane Eyre

Furthermore, this demeaning and negative attitude Jane is exposed to is further instigated when her cousin, John Reed, expresses her situation by saying: "You have no business to take our books; you are a dependent, mama says; you have no money; your father left you none; you ought to beg, and not to live here with gentlemen's children like us". The truth of Jane's unfortunate situation is expressed against her which results in her feeling no true support from this family and confides only in her childhood nursemaid- Bessie, who although behaves inconsistently and has “a capricious and hasty temper”, is the closest mother figure to her. Furthermore, the friction between Jane and John is further emphasised when the first physical aspect of violence is introduced to the reader through a graphic portrayal, further showing the ultimate rejection Jane experienced

Throughout Charlotte Brontë’s novel, Jane Eyre is afflicted with the feud between her moral values, and the way society perceives these notions. Jane ultimately obtains her happy ending, and Brontë’s shrewd denouement of St. John’s fate juxtaposes Jane’s blissful future with St. John’s tragic course of action. When Jane ends up at the Moor House, she is able to discover a nexus of love and family, and by doing so, she no longer feels fettered to Rochester. Moreover, Rochester is no longer Jane’s only form of psychological escape, and thus Jane is in a position to return to him without an aura of discontent. At the end of the novel, Jane is finally able to be irrevocably “blest beyond what language can express” (Brontë 459) because she is “absolutely bone of his bone, and flesh of his flesh” (459).

Jane Eyre by Charlotte Brontë depicts the rigid social structure and clear division between the upper and lower classes of Victorian society, in which wealth and status determined one’s beliefs, career, and treatment from those surrounding them. Those of the upper class did not typically converse or involve themselves with those viewed as beneath them; however, Jane Eyre fights the separation between the classes to which she has fallen victim at both Gateshead and Lowood school. Her refusal to conform to the hierarchy eventually leads to the meddling between the Victorian-era elite and peasant class, as seen through Jane Eyre’s romantic relationship with Edward Rochester, an upperclassman and

Although the isolation that defines much of Jane Eyre’s life seems only alienating, it also proves to be enriching, for Jane uses that isolation as a basis to truly appreciate the love she discovers when her family is revealed to her after she gains a large inheritance from a distant relative. She would not have been able to truly find and value the love in her family if not for the despair experienced early in life, as that despair led her to her family. She uses her loneliness to gather strength when it is most needed, allowing her to totally heal from the trauma of the red-room and enjoy the eternal warmth her new loving life

She meets Miss Temple, her teacher who turns into one of her first true friends. Jane describes how she feels around her teacher as, “...I derived a child’s pleasure from the contemplation of her face, her dress, her one or two ornaments, her white forehead, her clustered and shining curls, and beaming dark eyes… (Bronte 133)” Jane emphasizes the color of Miss Temple’s forehead to show that she is innocent too. She also does not know much about the world, but yet she is teaching children what they need to know to be educated for their adult lives. Having a role model figure like Miss Temple allows Jane to look up to a woman who has managed to achieve her goals and maintain her innocence. In addition to this, the use of white also highlights this first friendship as a beginning for Jane and the theme of innocence. A new chapter of life starts as Jane meets people who will treat her as she deserves to be treated. However, Jane still longs for the good parts of life before Lowood, “That night, on going to bed, I forgot to prepare in imagination the Barmecide supper of hot roast potatoes, or white bread and new milk, with which I was wont to amuse my inward cravings… (Bronte 109).” Jane does not want to go back to Gateshead, but desires the

Jane endured a harsh life in the home of her guardian, her cruel aunt Mrs. Reed. One of the punishments that Jane remembers immensely is her internment in the isolated and abandoned red-room, formerly belonging to Jane’s deceased uncle. Jane is forced to inhabit the chamber on her own while she is in a state of pain and fury. As the night begins to fall, the red-room begins to have an effect on Jane as the lonesome aspect of the room and its supernatural qualities begin to take their toll on Jane’s imagination. Jane begin to recall on the red-room, “I had heard what I had heard of dead men, troubled in their graves by the violation of their last wishes, revisiting the earth to punish the perjured and avenge the oppressed; and I thought Mr.

Jane Eyre, one of Charlotte Brontë’s most renowned pieces of work, secures a relentless connection between the reader and novel even in its most quiescent moments. The convoluted, but compelling relationship between the young Jane and tortured Rochester is utterly enticing, and leaves it’s observers breathless at the poetic phrases exchanged between the two. Inside the inner workings of this gothic love story the reader is exposed to constant acts of familial, and romantic betrayal that transform the emotional condition of the novel and the perspectives of Jane. After the death of Jane’s charitable uncle, she fell victim to her Aunt and cousins endless acts of vicious cruelty.

“I began to recall what I had heard of dead men, troubled in their graves by the violation of their last wishes, revisiting the earth to punish the perjured and avenge the oppressed; and I thought Mr. Reed's spirit, harassed by the wrongs of his sister's child, might quit its abode — whether in the church vault or in the unknown world of the departed — and rise before me in this chamber . . . My heart beat thick, my head grew hot; a sound filled my ears, which I deemed the rushing of wings; something seemed near me; I was oppressed, suffocated; endurance broke down; I rushed to the door and shook the lock in desperate effort." The red room incident symbolizes how she is trapped due to her social class, gender, and mistreated as child. The room itself can be seen as an emotional prison for Jane. Always being treated as she was less then she felt as though her feelings didn't matter. Not only does the red room symbolize death, being that her uncle passed away in that very room, but it can also symbolize the effect it had upon Jane, bringing out a strong quiet strength that helps guide her through

Bertha’s first physical appearance is introduced as a “strange wild animal”, and she is addressed by the impersonal pronoun “it” (p. 310). When her room is opened, Bertha’s response surprisingly mirrors the child Jane’s in the red-room, only that hers is more violent. Bertha “[runs] backwards and forwards”, “[growls] like” a “beast” (p. 310). Similarly, the child Jane demonstrates traces of trauma after being locked in the thrilling room for a night. She “[cries]”, “[gets] hold of Bessie’s hand” and “[shakes] the lock in desperate effort” (p. 14). Besides, Mrs. Reeds likens Jane to “an animal” (p. 252), whose thirst for revenge terrifies her. As indicated by Rodas (2003), Rochester himself participates in calling a “malicious elf” (p. 290), “salamander” and “thing” (p. 284). Moreover, as revealed in her question “am I a monster?” (p. 280), Bertha’s existence forces Jane to confront her anxiety over the self-image (Chen,

When Jane is punished and sent to the Red Room, she transforms overnight from a child to a more mature person. The imprisonment in the Red Room can be interpreted as a voyage into the unconscious. Jane realizes that she is considered different and identified as the “the other” by the household at Gateshead Hall, similar to the lonely characters of the moor in Bessie’s stories. “All John Reed’s violent tyrannies, all his sisters’ proud indifference, all his mother’s aversion, all the servants’ partiality, turned up in my disturbed mind like a deposit in a turbid well” (Bronte 10). When Jane expresses this thought she realizes that they are always going to feel that way.

The "red-room" is a special place to Jane and what I mean by that is it’s where she never wants to return too. Both her and a character that is called Bertha are unfairly imprisoned in the very place they call home. For Jane that would be the Gateshead while with Bertha that would be the attic at Thornfield. While Bertha imprisonment represents a normal day for a women in the Victorian age, Jane’s is due to her status in the home of the Reeds.

The pivotal moment that affected Jane Eyre’s outlook on life was due to her harsh upbringing by her aunt and her cousins. It is first introduced to the reader that Jane was adopted by her kind Uncle Reed, and his family, while Jane was sent to the red room as punishment and she was pondering about the past in order to pass time. The red room was a chamber, with décor that was almost all red, which could be locked from outside. The reason Jane was sent to the red room was because she had lashed out at her snobby and obnoxious cousin John Reed that on a regular basis would torment Jane. After years of pent up anger and frustration Jane couldn’t take it any longer. On regular occasion, she was outcast by her own family, although only she was only blood related to her deceased Uncle Reed and partly to his children. Before he had passed, Jane’s uncle had made a promise with his wife that she would raise Jane as if she were one of her own children. But, as time went on the Reed family’s

Jane’s restlessness shapes her character to the extent of her voice being suppressed by society and her desire of change, an empty void then filled once her voice is found. While living with the Reeds and after throwing a book at John Reed, Jane gets locked up in the red-room, serving as a punishment for standing up for herself. The room derives her from being expressive and creates an image of imprisonment for being radically passionate when she should not be according to the consensus of Gateshead, the head or fount of all her problems.

Charlotte Brontë’s Jane Eyre displays cases of physical and social restriction, along with instances of avant-garde emotional freedom in terms of Jane Eyre’s freedom of choice in leaving Mr Rochester and rejecting St John River’s proposal.

Charlotte Bronte’s Jane Eyre is a powerful literary masterpiece filled with remarkable and complex characters. Chief among these is Jane Eyre, the main character herself. Ms. Bronte has written Jane Eyre as though Jane were speaking to the reader, inviting him or her to hear the story of her life’s most important challenges and triumphs. It is through the telling of this story that the reader gets to know Jane, and becomes able to draw parallels from Jane’s experiences to their own. While the forms that challenges and triumphs take in one’s life are always diverse, as they are for Jane in the novel, these twists and turns in life’s path tend to serve the same purpose: to renovate and mold one’s character, as they do Jane’s. Throughout the novel Jane Eyre, Jane’s character transitions through several drastic changes: first from a child overwhelmed by injustice to a young woman capable of suffering patiently- then simultaneously from an emotionally isolated young woman to a relationally vivacious one, and from a reserved and submissive young woman to an assertive one- and finally, from a destitute and dependent young woman to one who is wholly independent and confident.