Names In Charlotte Bronte's Jane Eyre

In the novel, ‘Jane Eyre’ by Charlotte Bronte, setting is used throughout the novel to illustrate the development in the character. The novel is revolved around five separate locations, ; the Reed family's home at Gateshead, the wretched Lowood School, Rochester's manor, Thornfield, the Rivers family's home at Moor House, and Rochester's rural retreat at Ferndean, these settings all play a very important part in Jane’s life as they all represent the development of Jane’s character and the different period’s of her eventful life.

While Jane goes through a rollercoaster of romantic ideals, Charlotte Bronte reveals that her romanticism more fundamentally affect her own life in the future than even her religious ideals. This is to be expected, as Jane has a very depressing childhood while living with the Reeds and attending Lowood Institute. She makes the transition from Gateshead Hall, to Lowood, to Thornfield Hall, to Moor House, which equate to: Jane’s entrance to the real world (in Gateshead), the rock-bottom of Jane’s life (in Lowood), her encounter with young love (in Thornfield), and where Jane finds what she’s been after: a family (at the Moor House). All of these places come together to form the story of Jane Eyre and how she overcame her hardships to grow up to

Violence is the most recurrent gothic convention used in Jane Eyre, which is prominent in Charlotte Brontë's effective development of the novel and the character of Jane Eyre, who, throughout this novel, is searching for a home in which she would have a sense of belonging and love which would ultimately resolve this exact unfulfilled need she had as a child. The neglect she experienced in her childhood is manifested in the way she is treated by her aunt, Mrs. Reed, as in the first page of the novel Jane Eyre admits: ‘Me, she had dispensed from joining the group, saying, 'She regretted to be under the necessity of keeping me at a distance’’. This opening shows how there is a clear line of separation drawn between Jane and her relatives due to her complicated family background which consequently results in their reluctance to accept her into their environment. These complications lead to her maltreatment, which also adds on to the violence she experiences acting as a catalyst for the development of the character and her subconscious quest.

As a child at Gateshead, one discovers the first form of evil in the novel with the negative interactions between Jane and her relatives, which sparks from both, “physical inferiority,” (Bronte 11) to her cousins, and as Bronte eventually states, her lack of money. Doing rather short work, the reader discovers Jane does not belong in Gateshead with her rich Aunt, Mrs. Reed, and her cousins, John, Georgina, and Eliza. Jane’s three cousins cluster, “around their mamma,” (Bronte 11) in the opening of the novel, but Jane sits in solitary. She leaves to ask her aunt, “What does Bessie say I have done?”(Bronte 11); her aunt responds she likes children, who do not take up their elders, and Bronte implies, she likes good children, which becomes surprising with Jane’s cousins later actions. As Mrs. Reed departs from the

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The first chapter of Jane Eyre, written by Charlotte Bronte, creates the feeling of constraint and imprisonment that the main character is experiencing. The author conveys this feeling to the readers by utilizing diction and imagery. With these literary elements the reader is able to comprehend the emotions the main character feels. Charlotte Bronte applies imagery to demonstrate how the character is affected by what she sees. In the chapter it states, "...

Charlotte Brontë’s classic literature novel Jane Eyre is a Bildungsroman novel, which concentrates on the moral growth of the protagonist Jane. Brontë explores and extrapolates why Jane has difficulty complying to Victorian conventions whilst she is at Gateshead. Furthermore, Thornfield can be seen as a major learning curve, where Jane experiences both duty and desire. Through the use of this delicate balance of the binary opposites, readers are given insight into

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.

While at Gateshead, Jane is trapped by her relationship to the Reeds, which is reflected in the environment around her. At the beginning of Jane Eyre, Jane states that “there was no possibility of taking a walk that day” (Brontë 6). This beginning immediately puts Jane in her own bubble and exemplifies that she has no other form of positive interaction in her life. Initially, Jane is “[connected to] the natural environment, but also separate[d from it] with an unnatural boundary” (Fuller 152). Thus, this begins the recurring symbolism of how Victorian women were held back by gender roles in society. During her time at Gateshead, Jane is restrained by her

In theory, the opinions that people form of each other should be based on things that they have complete control over: their actions, their words, and the personality that they convey. However, more often than not, the factors that play a role in who we confide in are out of the person’s control. Traits like gender, religion, social status, race, and physical appearance can all play a role in the way we view each other, and can impact the opportunities that are available to us. Although this is unjust, prejudice was much deeper rooted and more problematic in the time of Charlotte Bronte, the author of the novel Jane Eyre. The novel depicts a young woman who strives to be viewed as an equal and yearns to be free from the grasp of the metaphorical cage that

Thus Gateshead wasn’t a house for her, neither was she treated as a family member; she was mistreated by Mrs Reed, bullied by her cousins. She was not accepted by her family and was only loved by her servant Bessie. Jane goes through many bad experiences right from the beginning of the novel and this is carried to another level when she is taken to a school, Lowood. It was a new home for Jane where she met Miss Temple and Helen Burns, but she soon learn that life at Lowood too is bad. The girls are overworked and the only relief for Jane is her friendship with Helen. Lockwood was indeed a place where Jane found the love and friendship;

In the novel, Jane Eyre, the author Charlotte Brontë’s real life experiences influence the novel heavily throughout. Some of Brontë’s life events are paralleled through the novel and are morphed to fit the main character, Jane Eyre, with a similar but better life compared to Brontë’s. There are three major experiences that Jane encounters through her life in the novel that have a few correlations with Charlotte Brontë’s which are their childhood life and her experience in an impoverished school, and her work as a governess.

The novel Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte is a very interesting book. It has many different interesting characters that all play many different roles in Jane’s life which are all important. Jane has over came every obstacle in her life some harder than others but she’s faced them all the same way. She’s a very strong young woman and has learned a lot through rough times.

Charlotte Bronte’s use of symbolism helps give the reader an in-depth understanding into what the characters in Jane Eyre are thinking and feeling. As a result the reader connects with the characters on a deeper level. Charlotte Bronte created a masterpiece in writing this novel. One of the greatest qualities she imbued into this book happens to be its use of repeated symbolism and themes, which came together and created one unified

Bronte's Jane Eyre effectively transcends the genres of literature to depict the emotional and character development of its protagonist. Whilst no overall genre dominates the novel exclusively, the blending contributes towards the portrayal of Bronte’s bildungsroman (Realisms, 92) as Jane Eyre grapples with her inner-self, and the social expectations of her gender. The novel incorporates Jane’s frequent conflicts, oppression, isolation and self-examination as she defends her identity and independence. Set amongst five separate locations, Bronte’s skilful use of literal and metaphorical landscapes, nature, and imagery, skilfully intertwines with the plot and denotes each phrase of her maturity. To deliberate these points further, chapters 1 and 23, will be analysed in detail. In addition it will argue how Bronte used the setting of Jane Eyre, to demonstrate that women can go beyond the oppressive limitations of their gender, economic and social class and environment and find fulfilment. It will also consider how the setting