Jane Eyre Character Analysis

“Writers often highlight the values of a culture or a society by using characters who are alienated from that culture or society because of gender, race, or creed.

"You think I have no feelings, and that I can do without one bit of kindness; but I can not live so: and you have no pity." (p.45)

Jane Eyre’s character changes throughout the book significantly. Many of her struggles are what bring her to change from a suffering young girl, to a very brave, well driven, independent woman.

A flower stands high in an empty field. It moves with every gust of wind and grows with every sunny day. At a single moment any one of the seven billion people on this Earth could have plucked it from the soil, yet for now, it remains in an upright position. Much like this flower, throughout life people are continuously influenced by those around them. Every person is changed constantly by the people around them, and their future is always altered because of this. In the novel Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronté, Jane Eyre is impacted greatly by characters such as Mrs. Reed, Helen Burns, and Mrs. Temple. These characters, just like the flower at mercy its environment, had left a great impact on Jane.

     Blanche Ingram is the most important woman, other than Jane Eyre, in the novel. Arguably, she is the most important antagonist in this book. It is difficult to fathom how an absolutely horrid, conceited, venal, apathetic creature could be so vital to the book; but take her away, the motivation, conflict, and character itself crumbles.

Answer: in Jane Eyre one character that was pulled in conflicting directions is Jane. When searching for freedom she was being persuaded by Mr. Rochester and St. John Rivers to be their mistress and she had to decide if either lifestyle was something she wanted and if she didn’t want either then shed be compromising her own freedom.

When searching for female role models in literature across the ages, one may look towards Jane Eyre, Their Eyes Were Watching God, and The Joy Luck Club. Set in 19th century England, Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë, is the memoir of an orphan named Jane Eyre. From her first memories, Jane is different from the people around her and is treated as such. She faces prejudices for her social an economic status, as well as for being an educated woman. To see the world, Jane finds work as a governess for Adele, the charismatic ward of Mr. Rochester, at Thornfield manor. Brontë uses characters around Jane to compare the ideals for women in her society with the hope of what women could be. In the end, Jane and Mr. Rochester are married, but only after

Jane’s heroic qualities matter more than appearance and serve as a model for female readers today. One of those qualities is that Jane overcame her gruesome past. Jane Eyre is tortured as a child by her relatives. For example, Jane’s cousin, John, constantly reminds her that she is an orphan, gets locked in the room her uncle died in and, is always excluded in games by the other children. Jane essentially holds this grudge until she is about to head off to boarding school, where she confronts her aunt. Jane learns a lot while in boarding school. Jane Eyre befriends a girl named Helen who said, “Life appears to me too short to be spent in nursing animosity or registering wrongs”. Jane cuts her family out of her life for good. Jane Eyre loves

When it comes to creating a sports team, the coach looks for a variety of players that displays different talents. He needs different players to contribute to the different aspects of the game. Just like a coach uses a variety of players on a team, Bronte applies contrasting characters and their eloquent attributes to produce one of the strongest amalgamated novels written in the 1800’s. Using this opposition, throughout the novel Jane Eyre, the author, Charlotte Bronte, utilizes her characters and diction of the dialogue to depict the contradiction between society’s Victorian realism and natural world of Romanticism. As this contradiction begins, the author portrays the Victorian Era’s emphasis on realism through the alterations of the protagonist’s

Charlotte Bronte’s Jane Eyre can be linked to many fairy-tales. Some of these tales such as Charle’s Perrault’s Bluebeard, Arabian Nights, and many more are actually cited in the text. Others are alluded to through the events that take place in the story. Jane Eyre has often been viewed as a Cinderellatale for example. There is also another story, however, that though not mentioned directly, can definitely be linked to Bronte’s novel. This tale is none other than Beauty and the Beast, which was part of one of Perrault’s compilations. Bronte uses the ideas and themes of Beauty and the Beast to reveal the importance of inner beauty and to make a point that it’s what’s inside a person that counts. The beauty that can be

Compare and contrast the ways in which Bronte and Rhys construct the adult selves of Jane and Antoinette and consider how this shapes their relationship with Rochester.

In Charlotte Brontë’s Jane Eyre, the author sets the story in the context of a patriarchal society in the Victorian era. Through the story however, the main character Jane builds relationships with other female characters that allows readers to understand the multifaceted idea of the “ideal woman” within the a patriarchy. With the relationships Jane has to the characters including Helen Burns, Miss Temple and Blanche Ingram, Brontë gives her criticisms of the restrictions that these expected gender roles put on women of the time period. Brontë uses the female characters in her novel and their relationship with or in contrast to Jane to show the confines and consequences that result on women who are subjected to the standard of being an

Can an impoverished orphan in the Victorian era sustain dreams of love and a fulfilled life while remaining true to herself? Jane Eyre is a young 10 year old orphan that lives with her cruel and widowed aunt, Mrs. Reed. One day after being unfairly provoked, she is caught fighting like a “wild cat” with her cousin. Jane is punished and locked inside the “ghost-infected” Red Room. Jane is so frightened by her imagination that, after an hour, she passes out and wakes up in the care of kind servant Bessie and apothecary Mr. Lloyd. After Jane talks with Mr. Lloyd, he suggests that Miss. Eyre be sent to school. To Jane’s delight, Mrs. Reed concurs.

Jane Eyre was written by Charlotte Bronte and was first published on October 16, 1847. The story takes place in England probably around the early nineteenth century and is told from Jane's perspective. At the beginning of the story, Jane is living with her rich Aunt and cousins, because both of her parents had died. However, her cousins and aunt do not treat her right, and Jane is unhappy. Jane is the main character in the story. She is a queer, melancholic, sometimes slightly naïve character. Mr. Rochester is a man whom Jane falls in love with in the middle of the story. He is a rich and ugly man, yet he is strong, kind, and smart. St. John Rivers is a cold and hard man, yet he is a very great man who wishes to serve God. Diana and Mary Rivers are his sisters. They are both free spirited kind women who study hard. Jane comes to live with the Rivers when she runs away, and later finds out that they are her cousins.

Jane Eyre by Charlotte Brontë has the title character and protagonist Jane lead a moral life in which she affects each person she interacts with. Included in this group of changed people is the one she falls in love with: Edward Rochester. At first Jane believes him to be “...proud, sardonic, harsh, unjust, and moody” (Brontë 153). By the end however, Jane tells the reader that all “my confidence is bestowed on him [Rochester], all his confidence is devoted to me; we are precisely suited in character—perfect concord is the result” (483). This is certainly quite the drastic change in personality; how did such a revision come about? Perhaps Rochester naturally improved or maybe Jane influenced which path he went down. It’s not like he was without some charm before he met Jane either. “The ease of his manner freed me from painful restraint; the friendly frankness, as correct as cordial, with which he treated me, drew me to him” (153). Jane recognizes the good Rochester contains within himself because of his nature, but she certainly believes there’s room for improvement. Example’s of Rochester’s good nature in action is found in his treatment of Bertha, Adele, and Mrs. Fairfax. Each lady had no requirement of Rochester’s help and yet he still aids them because he felt it was the right thing to do. Although Rochester demonstrates that he’s partially just on his own, it’s ultimately Jane who delivers him into a fuller state of goodness.