How Does Bronte Present Religion In Jane Eyre

If we look at the world, through Jane's eyes we see that she is a

In the novel, ‘Jane Eyre’ by Charlotte Bronte, setting is used throughout the novel to illustrate the development in the character. The novel is revolved around five separate locations, ; the Reed family's home at Gateshead, the wretched Lowood School, Rochester's manor, Thornfield, the Rivers family's home at Moor House, and Rochester's rural retreat at Ferndean, these settings all play a very important part in Jane’s life as they all represent the development of Jane’s character and the different period’s of her eventful life.

     Charlotte Bronte's Jane Eyre is a coming-of-age story about an unconventional woman's development within a society of strict rules and expectations. At pivotal moments in Jane's life, she makes choices which are influenced by her emotions and/or her reason. Through the results of those choices, Jane learns to balance passion and practicality to achieve true happiness.

Throughout Jane Eyre, as Jane herself moves from one physical location to another, the settings in which she finds herself vary considerably. Bronte makes the most of this necessity by carefully arranging those settings to match the differing circumstances Jane finds herself in at each. As Jane grows older and her hopes and dreams change, the settings she finds herself in are perfectly attuned to her state of mind, but her circumstances are always defined by the walls, real and figurative, around her.

During the scenes at Lowood Academy, Brontë compares Jane's strong personality to the reserved and submissive Helen Burns.  The teachers often punish Helen excessively, yet she never once objects or even questions their discipline.  When Jane asks her about this self-discipline, Helen simply explains that it is her "duty" to bear the punishment submissively (58).  Although Helen's "proper" female behavior does not entirely

Violence is the most recurrent gothic convention used in Jane Eyre, which is prominent in Charlotte Brontë's effective development of the novel and the character of Jane Eyre, who, throughout this novel, is searching for a home in which she would have a sense of belonging and love which would ultimately resolve this exact unfulfilled need she had as a child. The neglect she experienced in her childhood is manifested in the way she is treated by her aunt, Mrs. Reed, as in the first page of the novel Jane Eyre admits: ‘Me, she had dispensed from joining the group, saying, 'She regretted to be under the necessity of keeping me at a distance’’. This opening shows how there is a clear line of separation drawn between Jane and her relatives due to her complicated family background which consequently results in their reluctance to accept her into their environment. These complications lead to her maltreatment, which also adds on to the violence she experiences acting as a catalyst for the development of the character and her subconscious quest.

Helen Burns is probably the turning point of life for Jane, although we don't see it happening immediately. When Jane explains to Helen what she feels about being good she says, 'you are good to those who are good to you. It is all I ever desire to be. If people were always kind and obedient to those who are cruel and unjust, the wicked people would have it all their own way.' Helen tells the "little untaught girl," about life: 'It is not violence that best overcomes hate - nor vengeance that most certainly heals injury,' and 'Love your enemies; bless them that curse you; do good to them that hate you and despitefully use you.' Jane is incredibly confused by this statement; she cannot understand how she could ever love someone she hates so dearly, as in this case Mrs. Reed and her son, John. So Jane quickly responds with, "Then I should love Mrs. Reed, which I cannot do: I should bless her son John, which is impossible." Although Jane does not yet comprehend Helen Burn's words at this time, she will eventually learn the basis of what Helen is saying later in adult life; as shown when Jane returns of to Gateshead to Mrs. Reed?s deathbed showing forgiveness and compassion.

In Jane Eyre, Charlotte Bronte demonstrates how one’s Christian faith affects love, obedience and career. The morality provided by Christianity sketches an ideal life which is interpreted and executed in how one loves, obeys, or finds satisfaction in a career.

“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.

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

The Importance of Jane's Early Life at Lowood to Shaping Her Character in Charlotte Bronte's Jane Eyre

In the novel, Jane Eyre, the author Charlotte Brontë’s real life experiences influence the novel heavily throughout. Some of Brontë’s life events are paralleled through the novel and are morphed to fit the main character, Jane Eyre, with a similar but better life compared to Brontë’s. There are three major experiences that Jane encounters through her life in the novel that have a few correlations with Charlotte Brontë’s which are their childhood life and her experience in an impoverished school, and her work as a governess.

Discuss Charlotte Bronte’s portrayal of childhood in Jane Eyre. Charlotte Brontë’s ‘Jane Eyre’ was a controversial novel for its time. It traces the heroine from an orphan child to a contented adult woman. Through the trials Jane experiences Brontë highlights many hypocritical aspects of Victorian society, mainly focusing on the religious hypocrisy of the era. Subtitled ‘An Autobiography’, the novel in parts closely resembles Brontë’s own childhood and her evocation of Jane’s experiences of Gateshead and Lowood remain as vivid as ever for the modern reader.

Charlotte Bronte’s “Jane Eyre” follows the life of a young woman who, through childhood and into adulthood, is attempting to find herself. Jane must overcome many obstacles and face difficult hardships on her journey through life, but every event is important in its own ways. The exposure to different environments affects Jane in unique ways, bringing out key traits of her personality and shaping her as an individual, allowing her to grow into a woman who refuses to conform to society’s standards.

Jane Eyre follows a young, passionately individualistic orphan who grows up and spends her life searching for acceptance, love, and freedom from those who would stifle her creative tendencies and bold nature. She moves from place to place throughout the novel so often that the book itself is organized by place, and Jane’s journeys are symbolic of the changes which take place within her to build and strengthen her character. Bronte’s novel is often seen as the first bildungsroman written from a female perspective, and though it did sell well when it was first published, it was not popular without controversy. Many questioned the morality present in the novel, and whether or not Jane Eyre is a spiritually sound book. There are many Christian themes and images throughout Bronte’s work, yet there seems to be a disparity in the theology that is presented. As Jane matures, she is exposed to different ideas of religion and what it means to be a well-behaved Christian woman in the Victorian era. Jane’s encounters with truth and spirituality showcase and strengthen her identity and help shape her into a woman who wants to decide for herself what is true.