Jane Eyre Dbq

“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.

Through a close reading of the selected passage of Charlotte Brontë’s Jane Eyre: An Autobiography, a reader can see that Jane attempts to separate herself from her decisions by personifying her emotions and giving them a specific voice, which strongly reflects the societal views of the time. At this point in the story, Jane has discovered, on her wedding day, that Mr. Rochester is still married to a woman named Bertha, and that woman still lives in his house. Distraught, Jane locks herself in her room and tries to decide what she should do. When she wakes up the next day, she is again confronted with what she needs to do in the wake of her discovery.

It is in vain to say human beings ought to be satisfied with tranquility: they must have action; and they will make it if they cannot find it. Millions are condemned to a stiller doom than mine, and millions are in silent revolt against their lot. Nobody knows how many rebellions besides political rebellions ferment in the masses of life which people earth. Women are supposed to be very calm generally: but women feel just as men feel; they need exercise for their faculties, and a field for their efforts, as much as their brothers do … It is thoughtless to condemn them, or laugh at them, if they seek to do more or learn more than custom has pronounced necessary for their sex. (Bronte 112-13)

A gothic novel is defined as an English genre of fiction, characterized by an atmosphere of mystery and horror and having a pseudo-medieval setting. Gothic novels have been present for many centuries and to this day, authors write about basic gothic aspects that are common throughout all gothic novels. In the novel, Jane Eyre, the author, Charlotte Brontë, writes a gothic story about the life of a plain, intelligent woman, who encounters horrors her entire life. This novel possess all the elements confirming itself as a gothic novel: supernatural events, extreme fear, a Byronic hero, and an imprisoned woman. Over the course of the novel, she must conquer her terror to possess the love of a man.

(A) One of the many supernatural things that happened during this book was when Jane Eyre saw herself in the mirror as a child. When Jane was placed in the red room she saw a bright light and she recognized it from her childhood and she was convinced that it was Mr. Reed’s ghost. Most of supernatural occurrences that happened to Jane Eyre in the book deal with ghost. In this book the author writes about things that seem scary but turn out to be harmless. When Jane is in the attic of Thornfield she tries her hardest to find a ghost. “My heart beat fast and thick: I heard its throb. Suddenly it stood still to an inexpressible feeling that thrilled it through, and passed at once to my head and extremities. The feeling was not like

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

“Whoever spares the rod hates their children, but the one who loves their children is careful to

Since Jane was orphaned at a young age and went through abuse because of it, I think that her life would have been very different if she had grown up with a father and mother. Due to the being an abused orphan, Jane’s life was made all the more difficult. Without this burden, she could have had a much better chance at being successful without having to go through the nightmare that was her childhood.

In Jane Eyre, Jane and Blanche are polar opposites in multiple ways including physical beauty, wealth and high self-esteem and much more. They also contrast their feelings toward Mr. Rochester. For example, Jane tells the reader about how she suspects that Rochester is going to marry him for family, political reasons, not for love and especially for his money. Jane quotes "I saw he was going to marry her, for family, perhaps political reasons---because her rank and connections suited them" but continues to say that she couldn't sway him. Jane meanwhile is hopelessly in love with Mr. Rochester and says she was "forgetting all his faults...I saw no bad" claiming that whoever marries him will be "the very happiest women the sun shines on". She defeatly proclaims

The novel, Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Bronte delivers a strong feminist message. Jane was a strong woman in a time when women were not meant to be strong. She was very out spoken (even as a child) and very sure in her values and opinions. She would not change them for anyone. She did not even let men control her, which is what was expected of women in this era.

After finishing chapter 27, I feel that Jane is making the right choice. Yes she may be tormented and saddened right now but if she stayed she would have had to deal with the mental guilt of only being a mistress. Jane is a religious woman, and has morals she is obligated to withhold; these morals would be pointless if she had stayed there, she would have eventually become angry with herself for living a lie.

When Jane Eyre (1847) was published by Charlotte Brontë under the masculine pseudonym Currer Bell, it was received with great acclaim by some critics, and harsh criticism by others. The conservative Lady Eastlake suggested that if the book was by a woman ‘she had long forfeited the society of her own sex’. In addition to this lack of femininity, she also diagnosed a spirit of rebellion which she likened to the working class uprisings of the Chartists, with their demands for votes for the working people, and also the political revolutions which were then sweeping across Europe.[1] Jane Eyre unsettled views as to how women should act and behave, suggesting, in Lady Eastlake’s eyes, almost an overthrowing of social order. Unlike the long-suffering

Jane Eyre is a classic novel written by Charlotte Bronte. It was published on October 16, 1847 under the pen name Currer Bell. This book is said to be an autobiography of Charlotte Bronte's life, even though it was not published as an autobiography. Jane Eyre was considered a controversial book, but it was also considered revolutionary, as well as interesting.

Jane Eyre is an orphaned girl who lives with her aunt and cousins. They are known as the Reeds. Her cousins countinously torment her and many of the servants remind her how poor she is. After being harrassed, she finally tells them off. She is then punished and sent to the “red room”. This is the room that her uncle had died in. She has a panic attack and believes that she has seen a ghost. She awakes to find Mr Lloyd, a doctor looking over her. He suggest that she be to Lowood institute. It’s a school that is fifty miles away from Gateshead. So they send her off. At Lockwood, a man named Mr. Brocklehurst runs the school. Jane can not stand him and finds him hypocritical. The students are often not given enough food or warm clothing. They live in bad conditions. During an inspection, Mr. Brocklehurst embarrasses Jane by forcing her to stand on a chair in the middle of class. She is accused of being a liar in front of everyone. But another teacher known as Miss Temple defends Jane. So Jane befriends her and trust her. Miss Temple encourages her to continue on with study despite what has happened. Jane also befriends another girl named Helen Burns. Jane loves how Helen is able to turn the other way when mistreated by teachers. She tries to be that way herself. But then a Typhus fever breaks in the school. Helen contracts it and ends up dying in Janes arms. Mr Brocklehurst is discovered to have been using school funds for his personal rather than providing things needed to

Question 1. Charlotte Bronte’s description of Jane Austen’s novel evokes a certain sense that Bronte wanted more from Austen’s literature. When comparing Bronte and Austen’s texts, both question what it means to live as a woman in the world of nineteenth-century Britain, but while In Pride and Prejudice as well as in Emma there is a sense of us as the reader being outside of what’s happening in the novel, whereas in Jane Eyre we are able to understand Jane a little bit better than the other characters. In Jane Eyre we never have access to anyone else’s interiority, and since the narrative is placed inside of Jane’s head, we are motivated to believe her perspective. Jane is represented to us as a character to with whom we are meant to be sympathetic towards and like, whereas with a character such as Emma, even Jane Austen knew that many people might not like the character of Emma that she had created, due to the fact that Emma was relatively spoiled and somewhat of a brat. I believe that Charlotte Bronte’s critique of Austen is that her writing only scrapes the surface of human emotion and does not lend itself to allowing a more in depth analysis of each of her characters true thoughts and feelings, which Bronte, in my opinion, is very fond of. Bronte’s writing seems to focus highly on the internal thoughts and feelings of her protagonist and less so on giving a variety of different perspectives of a variety of different characters. I believe that what Charlotte