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Jane Eyre Human Nature

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The main purpose of a text is to give us insight into the complexity of human nature

Jane Eyre directed by Cary Fukunaga depicts Jane as a woman of low social standing in Victorian England. The film shows the complexity of human nature by showing the viewer how Jane wants to be equal to her peers, struggles with her conscience is choosing between reason and passion and her instinctive reaction to fear. These experiences show an insight into human nature, as these are things we all grapple with.

In Jane Eyre, directed by Cary Fukunaga, the complexity of human nature is shown through the lack of equality Jane feels. Throughout the film we are able to see Jane struggling to feel equal to others in a male dominated world where she is not only …show more content…

Jane oft finds herself by windows, staring out of them. This motif represents a cage in which she feels trapped. Jane has the ability to see out, and view what her opportunities could have been had her situation at birth been different. Bertha, Mr Rochester's wife is even further disadvantaged as the window on her room has been barred over, showing that due to her mental state, something she also has no control over, she has even less opportunities than other women. “Am I a machine without feeling? Do you think that because I am poor, obscure, plain and little, that I am soulless and heartless? I have as much soul as you and full as much heart… I am not speaking to you through mortal flesh. It is my spirit that addresses your spirit as if we had passed through the grave and stood at God’s feet equal, as we are!” Further, when Jane stands up to Rochester we are able to see her pain in being unequal to him, and her feeling unworthy of being with him. Her station in life has lead her to believe that she is unable to be equal to Rochester as she is a woman, as well as being a poor orphan, in comparison to Blanche Ingram who Rochester courts to make Jane jealous. Miss Ingram is seen as

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