Jane Eyre Development

In Thornfield Eyre changes her mind set a lot. In the beginning she felt a sense of imprisonment. She describes it as pacing the corridors like a creature caged. She was longing for her freedom. She changed her mind set when she met Edward Rochester. He offered her a chance to liberate her passions. She knew she had feelings for Rochester, but also knew that as his mistress she would be giving up her dignity and integrity. Jane didn’t know if this is the freedom she wanted. She had always had this idea that she would respect her own dignity and never undergo it, but Rochester makes her want to choose her feelings over everything. She then meets a fellow named St. John Rivers who offers her different aspects then Rochester. He allows her to act willingly when she pleases and offers her to live and work with him in India. Jane Eyre soon realizes that either way she will feel imprisoned because with St. John Rivers she would have to keep her feelings in check. Eyre ended up choosing feelings over everything. She wanted to be with Rochester because she was in love with him. Jane Eyre has the happy ending with Rochester that she now knows she

She makes her own decision to leave Lowood after a solid ten years and earns a job with her own abilities and is determined to venture out into the world away from Lowood. When she meets Mr. Rochester, he encourages her to express herself in her own way when he admires her drawings. But as Jane falls in love with Mr. Rochester Jane learns about new emotions that she has never felt before as she finds love and learns how to suppress them. As she falls in love with Mr. Rochester, the master, she learns to conceal her feelings instead of breaking out in emotional outbursts like she did at Gateshead. They eventually fall in love and decide to get married but Jane makes a wise decision to leave Thornfield even though her decision is distressing and heartbreaking she does it for her own

It instead shows Jane’s inner struggle to do what is “right” versus what she desires. The separation between the voice of herself and her thoughts exhibits her helplessness to change her path from what her mind has already decided. This displays the heavy influence society has on Jane, which is further proven by the personification of Jane’s two strongest rivaling emotions. The heavy influence of a patriarchal dominated society is evident in her “Conscience” being a strong male figure, whereas her “Passion” is a weaker, feminine figure. Similarly, the strongest reasoning for Jane to leave Thornfield is driven by the patriarchal demand for a female to remain “pure” until holy marriage, rather than Jane’s own desire to leave, further solidifying the idea that the voice given to her mind is not just her own internal thoughts, but also the demands and expectations of

Later on the book, she completes her education, and becomes Governess in Thornfield. She begins to teach a girl named Adele, and as she does so, Jane gains a great amount of confidence, and soon realizes that this is one of the many more things she can do. It is at Thornfield that she meets Mr. Rochester; the master of Thornfield. When Jane is taking a walk through the fields of Thornfield, Jane encounters the master of Thornfield; Mr. Rochester. Meeting Mr. Rochester brings Jane to change greatly as a woman, as she begins to identify a feeling of romantic appreciation towards him. As the story goes on, Mr. Rochester and Jane begin to form a romantic

Myriad stories incorporate the idea of the relationship between adults and children into their plot, and Charlotte Brontë’s Jane Eyre fits this category through its numerous scenes of adults and children interacting. In particular, Jane’s relationship with adults, especially Mrs. Reed and Mr. Brocklehurst in chapter four exemplifies a particular type of relationship Jane often has with adults: one of powerlessness yet conviction. In this particular passage, Jane first encounters Mr. Brocklehurst at Gateshead Hall, and though Jane wishes to defend her character against the slanders of Brocklehurst, she is forced to remain quiet while Mrs. Reed further impugns Jane’s character. Indeed, this passage indicates how Brontë portrays the relationships

In the first few opening chapters Jane Eyre is seen as a mentally and physically abused child, during her years at Gateshead Hall. John Reed displays violence towards Jane in the first chapter. He punishes and bullies Jane; it is not known why the Reed family resent her so much. Her situation is seen as desperate within the first few paragraphs. Her cousins and Aunt make her life impossible and unbearable, she is not seen as a member of the family. Jane is simply seen as ‘’less than a servant’’ as she does ‘’nothing for her keep’’.

Jane desperately wants to fit in somewhere. She wants to be a part of something, she wants a family. A recurring scene of this is fire, in connection with warmth, family, and happiness. She especially associates Thornfield Hall with this feeling, because even if she doesn’t admit it to herself, she thinks of Thornfield as her home. She feels that she really has a place where she belongs, and even before she and Rochester reach ‘flirting’ in their relationship, she feels comfortable at Thornfield. She subconsciously notes her feelings toward Thornfield: “The west, too, was warm: no watery gleam chilled it --- it seemed as if there was a fire lit. an altar burning behind its screen of marbled vapour, and out of apertures shone a golden redness. I felt glad as the road shortened before me. . .” (p. 229). Jane connects fire and warmth to home throughout the book. She associates the hearth to a warm loving person or a family. Here, when she is heading back to Thornfield Hall, she mentions that it still seems warm, even with the mist, as if there is a fire behind it warming it up. Jane is subconsciously connecting Thornfield Hall to home, even if she doesn’t think of it as one. Jane associates the hearth with family as well. This is shown earlier in the book when she talks about the Reed family gathered around the fire. They are

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

Jane Eyre is a coming of age story following a young woman and her journey of self-growth. At the start of the novel Jane is living with her aunt and three cousins. They continuously abuse her, treating her like a stranger rather than a family member. At the age of ten Jane leaves her aunt's house and attends boarding school. It is at this school where she learns lessons of forgiveness and hope from a meek young woman named Helen Burns. Subsequently studying and teaching at the school for eight years Jane decides to become a governess at the mysterious Thornfield mansion. She falls in love with the owner of Thornfield and the two make plans to marry. Nonetheless on the day of there wedding Jane discovers that Mr. Rochester is already married and that he keeps his insane wife Bertha trapped away in the attic of Thornfield. Devastated by this information, Jane flees Thornfield and nearly dies from cold and starvation. Soon after she is taken in by the Rivers, two sisters and one brother. The passing of Jane's uncle reveals that she and the Rivers are cousins. It is also revealed that this uncle has left Jane all his fortune. This in turn leaves Jane extremely wealthy. Her cousin St. John Rivers ask Jane for his hand in marriage. However Jane comes to the conclusion that she still loves Mr. Rochester. After declining St. John's proposal Jane journeys back to Thornfield. When she arrives at Thornfield Jane discovers the mysterious mansion in burnt ruins. It is revealed that the

While on the altar at her wedding, Jane learns that Mr. Rochester is already married to a mad creole woman named Bertha Mason. Despite this, she does not shed a tear and says, “I would not say that he betrayed me: but the attribute of stainless truth was gone from his idea; and from his presence I must go” (287). Jane shows incredible strength in saying that Rochester had not betrayed her, but she rather finds fault in him for not giving the whole truth. She not only manages to rise above the reader’s expectations when her physical self manages to remain inscrutable, but also their expectations of her inner emotions influencing her decision. However, Jane hardly gives a second thought to her decision to leave Thornfield, even after forgiving Rochester, which displays her ability to rise above her feelings towards him and put herself first.

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

Becoming a governess at Thornfield, falling in love with Rochester, eventually running away and ending up at the Moor House, then go through the fallout of St. John and goes to Ferndean to rekindle the her relationship with Rochester. This envelops Jane's adult life and the

In the novel Jane Eyre by Charlotte Brontë, the title character’s journey is full of challenges that shape her development. These are constructed of times spent as four main places; Gateshead, Lowood, Thornfield, and Ferndean. At Gateshead Jane is too quick-tempered but only to lose her lively spirit at Lowood. At Thornfield she become overly passionate and guided by her emotions but balance is achieved at Ferndean. Jane Eyre becomes as complete character as she learns to find the balance between the intellect and the passions. In doing so, she touches the life of Edward Rochester and in fulling herself helps Rochester humble himself and achieve a perfect balance by example.

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

Perhaps as a result of her upbringing, which was full of cruelty and abuse, Jane developed a strong sense of what was right and what was wrong. As a child, these traits translated to insolence as she disobeyed and spoke out against the wrongdoing of adults that were so used to children being seen and not heard, resulting in Mr Brocklehurst warning her that “wicked” children go to hell . However, her moral compass develops and as an adult Jane begins to relish her own freedom and independence. She has been under other people’s care for so long – for example Mrs Reed, Miss Abbot and Mr Brocklehurst – that when she is able to start anew at Thornfield she values her ability to control her own life and does not wish to become a possession of Mr Rochester. This can be seen when Mr Rochester takes her to Millcote to buy new dresses following their engagement and her cheek “burned with a sense of annoyance and degradation” as she “never [could] bear being dressed like a doll by Mr Rochester” , and would value the money from her uncle in Madeira as it would give her a sense of independence from Mr Rochester. Her desire for independence and freedom is further stressed when she leaves Thornfield following the