Jane Eyre Critical Analysis

Charlotte Bronte plays with gender archetypes in shaping the relationship that lies at the heart of her novel. Both Jane and Rochester possess unconscious qualities that are both feminine and masculine which result in a syzygy, or a wholeness of the unconscious. They are two fragmented selves who complete one another. By fusing these two elements, the masculine(animus) in Jane and the feminine (anima) in Rochester, Bronte shows us a new intimacy. In Jane Eyre, she has created a romance that transcends the ordinary and becomes mythic.

In its simplest form, Charlotte Bronte’s Jane Eyre tells the story of a young woman, Jane Eyre, who grows up poor, makes the decision to be independent, does so, and, eventually, marries rich. The novel follows her from her childhood to her reunion with the love of her life and she, throughout it, deals with classism and sexism and exhibits her own form of feminism. By the end, it becomes clear that, with this semi-autobiographical novel, Charlotte Bronte was providing a criticism on society’s discrimination toward those of a lower class, a subtle argument against the male-dominated society’s treatment of women, and an even subtler call to action for women to find their own agency outside of the men in their lives. On another end, however,

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).

Charlotte Bronte’s novel, Jane Eyre, is a coming of age story, about a young, orphaned, and submissive girl growing up, through many hardships, into a young, passionate, and free willed woman. Charlotte Bronte begins the story with a ten-year-old Jane Eyre living with an impartial and sometimes cruel aunt, Aunt Reed. Aunt Reed, after neglecting Jane for the whole of her life, finally decides to send her away to boarding school, to Lowood School. Upon her departure, Jane expresses a measure of autonomy and agency, the first of many episodes in which she “gathered her energies and launched them in this blunt sentence – ‘I am not deceitful; if I were, I should say I loved you; but I declare I do not love

Throughout Jane Eyre, there is no mention of Creole culture or even anybody pertaining to the Creole heritage. The Creole culture is not mentioned until we discover how Rochester has a wife, who is Creole. Phrases such as “growled like some strange wild animal” (Brontë 293) and “a quantity of dark, grizzled hair, wild as a mane” (Brontë 293) are used to describe this “mad woman” in the attic we come to know of. Brontë’s places claims and statements about “Bertha’s” mental state through Rochester to imply that her “madness” is due to her Creole heritage. We later find out in the Wide Sargasso Sea that the accusations about Bertha are false and are made simply out of misunderstanding and lack of knowledge.

Charlotte Bronte's Jane Eyre written during the Victorian era in the nineteenth century, stars Jane, an orphaned, isolated girl, living with a family that disapproves of her. As she grew, she exceled at school, became a governess, and falls in love with Edward Rochester her employer. Furthermore, after being deceived by him, Jane goes to Marsh End, where she reclaims her aspect and indentifies her own strength. By novel's end, Jane became a strong, independent woman. Charlotte Bronte's Jane Eyre still raises relevant questions to readers; like (4) how abuse or unfair treatment makes a person angry or bitter? or (10) how love can transform appearances in the eye of the beholder?

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The novel Jane Eyre written by Charlotte Brontë depicts a young girl in England who suffers at the dramatic loss of both her parents and loving uncle. She was left to a rude, maniacal step-aunt named Reed who allows her to be beaten with books and locked away in “Red Rooms”. Eventually she was sent away to the Lowood School were she was then tortured, educated, and made “like a lady.” It is shown throughout the novel that she faces persecution by her own thoughts and actions at the persecution of her happiness and future.  “Charlotte Brontë uses various characters to embody aspects of reason and passion, thereby establishing a tension between the two.

This purpose of this essay is to examine Charlotte Bronte’s analysis of Victorian gender roles found within Jane Eyre. For most readers, Charlotte Bronte’s Jane Eyre is much more than an iconic Gothic novel set within the Victorian Era. In my opinion, it’s a story about a young woman who not only defies gender role, but also the social class in an attempt to live her life; but in her own way. On top of that, readers began to view Jane as a somewhat unexpected heroine of Bronte’s novel, that while facing innumerable obstacles within a tough social class, becomes something more by the end of the story. I believe that another purpose for Bronte’s novel is to show readers that women like Jane Eyre can rise above the oppressive environment of

As the saying goes, “The eyes are the windows to the soul.” In the Romantic Era, writers paid more attention to the expression of emotions than the listing of facts and usage of reason. It was common for authors of the time to use feelings to highlight the intensity of their stories. Although the Romantic literature movement is present in many aspects of Jane Eyre, it is most prevalent in the sentiments expressed by the characters. Charlotte Bronte, the author of the coming-of-age, Victorian Era novel, Jane Eyre, is influenced by Romanticism and uses the eyes of her characters to illustrate their emotions. Throughout Jane Eyre, eyes are used to express the emotions of anger, sorrow, and love.

With the inequality between women and men during the Victorian era, Jane Eyre remained envious of the freedom and opportunities available for the life of a man. Jane seeks liberation in all areas of her life because of her understanding of the vast, grand world immersed with opportunities. She shows significant determination throughout the entire film. As a young child, her nefarious Aunt did not weaken her, rather, she made her mentally stronger while living at Gateshead Hall. As Jane grew older, her jealousy of men intensified. Jane Eyre, although a fictional character, opened my eyes to the unfair life of a woman in the nineteenth century. Her assertion, "I wish a woman could have action in her life, like a man," speaks to me

Jane Eyre was published during a time when the treatment of females was not so great. Women were seen as possessions, and were passed back and forth from person to person until the day they died. There was no such thing as an independent female, and even though they were allowed to be somewhat educated but not allowed to control their own lives. Jane Eyre was a woman with a lot of experience in this department, but she definitely wanted her own control even though she didn’t have the power for this. The novel, Jane Eyre, showed the real treatment of women back in the Victorian age. “The Madwoman and the Blindman: Jane Eyre, Discourse, Disability attempts to reintroduce some interpretive possibilities to Charlotte Brontë's novel and, more specifically,

Charlotte Bronte, an English writer, was born on April 21, 1816 in Thornton, Yorkshire, England. At the age of five, Bronte’s mother, Maria Branwell, dies. Consequently, she grows up in a strict Anglican household with her religious aunt and her father, a clergyman. In 1824, Bronte and her sisters, Emily, Maria, and Elizabeth attend a school for clergymen's’ daughters at Cowan Bridge, but they continue to study mostly at home. Ultimately, tuberculosis kills her older sisters. She becomes a teacher for a short time, then changes her occupation to a governess. In 1839, she decides that she hates the job and quits. Furthermore, she starts to prepare for the establishment of her dream school. The school, however, does not prosper.

In Charlotte Bronte’s novel Jane Eyre, cultural collision calls to questions one’s identity when one is seen to be out of the ordinary when in a modern world. A study of character development and conflict has the reader understand what the author is trying to imply in her novel that a woman's role is suppose to be lackadaisical is education, dependent on others and relying on men to show affection to a woman while Jane Eyre is reversing the role of a women throughout the novel which brings adversity onto herself with Mrs. Reed, Mr. Brocklehurst, and Mr. Rivers

Charlotte Bronte’s Jane Eyre emerges with a unique voice in the Victorian period for the work posits itself as a sentimental novel; however, it deliberately becomes unable to fulfill the genre, and then, it creates an altogether divergent novel that demonstrates its superiority by adding depth of structure in narration and character portrayal. Joan D. Peters’ essay, Finding a Voice: Towards a Woman’s Discourse of Dialogue in the Narration of Jane Eyre positions Gerard Genette’s theory of convergence, which is that the movement of the fiction towards a confluence of protagonist and narrator, is limited as the argument does not fully flesh out the parodies that Charlotte Bronte incorporates into her work. I will argue that in the novel