The Clash Between Physical And Inner Beauty In Charlotte Bronte's Jane Eyre

Jane is desperate for love and therefore her vibrant passion creates her vivid personality. Charlotte Bronte’s writing style is complex, and emotion filled. Her sentences are contain numerous adjectives and sensual images. Brontes unique style is powerful and strong and filled with emotion and imagery as we captures in the life of Jane eyre. Jane is a strong willed and a strong-minded individual which shines through even at her earliest years. Living a Gateshead, Jane displayed her strong nature. For example, Charlotte writes about Jane after she was hit by her cousin, “my blood was still warm; the mood of the revolted slave was still bracing me with its bitter vigor." (p. 22)

In Charlotte Brontë’s Jane Eyre, the eventual goal of Jane Eyre’s journeys and struggles as a character is for Jane to be strong enough within herself to stand on her own. It is not until she finds this internal strength that she can live as a content individual and weather the distracting demands put on her by the external forces that surround her. Throughout most of the novel, Jane makes the mistake of looking for this internal peace through external forces like Mrs. Reed, Mr. Rochester and St. John. To convey this tendency, Charlotte Brontë constructs her narrative so that, rather than looking within herself to find internal solace, Jane turns away from cold, alien

She is told that Blanche is a beautiful woman, and that Rochester has a liking for her. Jane then draws a portrait of herself and of Blanche. “An hour or two sufficed to sketch my own portrait in crayons; and in less than a fortnight I had completed an ivory miniature of an imaginary Blanche Ingram.” (Brontë 187) Jane knows that she isn’t attractive, but she was just starting to realize that she might have a chance with Rochester and when she finds out that Rochester likes Blanche, Jane’s confidence goes away. In a fit of jealousy, Jane draws the two portraits but makes hers plain, and ugly, and in crayon. When drawing Blanche’s portrait, Jane uses beautiful soft colors and her best materials, and she tries to make it as beautiful as possible. She chooses to draw her picture in crayon, because crayons make hard, streaky lines, and cannot be blended well together. This helps Jane focus the attention to the plainness in her face, as well as helping her seem ugly. She uses her ‘freshest, finest, clearest tints’ and her ‘most delicate camel-hair pencils’ to paint Blanche because she wants to make her appear delicate and gorgeous. She uses this range of materials and drawing styles to contrast her simplicity with Blanche’s alluring

Fairfax's verbal description (169). She claims that "it is madness in all women to let a secret love kindle within them," and resolves to reject imagination and resign herself to reason; at that point, she decides that she could never be the object of Mr. Rochester's affections (168-9). Jane treats herself as her own pupil, and criticizes herself for abandoning "sense and resolution" and vows to have them for the moment, after which she falls asleep easily (170). This scene is curiously like the first time Jane resolves to produce art while a young girl at Lowood, except the focus of that former moment was strictly on the imagination, where Jane was content to imagine "the spectacle of my ideal drawings," after which she also fell contentedly asleep (78). Because Jane does not want to abandon sense and reason, her portraits at this point are based on reality; she uses Mrs. Fairfax's descriptions in conjunction with socially constructed native theories of the time to develop what she thinks Blanche Ingram should look like. In other words, one of the biggest conventions of this novel regarding Victorian women is brought out in the moment Jane paints this portrait?conventional views of how they should look, and, in reality, what Jane is not. She is not allowing herself to have dreams of a better life with Rochester, much like St. John not able to bring himself to

Charlotte Brontё, the author of ‘Jane Eyre’ has used the art of her writing to compose a novel considered to be a feminist novel, along with raising points about the sexism of women in Victorian society. Within the thirty-eight chapters of this novel discussing the protagonist Jane Eyre’s, coming of age story, Brontё not only discusses the hardship of Jane’s life, but the battles she and other female characters, such as Miss Temple face in this book by being belittled for their gender. Brontё physically knew the gender discrimination within Victorian society as she had to disguise her literature under the male name of ‘Currer Bell’ to be able the chance for her to publish her novels. This was because female authors were seen as inferior unlike

In this excerpt from, Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Bronte is excellent on bringing forth great emotional remarks from the protagonist. Bronte’s application of imagery and tone creates strong feelings toward the audience. Bronte utilizes imagery to create sadness through the first lines. One of uses in the novel, “the cold winter wind… brought … clouds so somber and rain so penetrating. ”(line 4)

    Charlotte Bronte wrote the novel Jane Eyre in the mid-eighteen hundreds. In her novel she expresses her views on many important factors present during this time including social problems such as race, class, gender, and the role of religion. Each of these factors affects the way that the protagonist, Jane Eyre, grows as a person. Throughout the novel Charlotte Bronte uses images and symbols that either influence or represent Jane's growth. Bronte uses a common imagery throughout the novel reflecting images of "fire and ice." She also uses symbols in Jane's life such as the red-room, from her childhood, and the character Bertha Mason Rochester, during her time at Thornfield. Other characters who

Throughout the novel, Bronte recognizes both the male and the female as equivalent in terms of what is needed to establish true bonds in relationships. By refusing to accept the idea of marriageability and suitability, she has denied society’s objectification of women. Bronte exemplifies that love should be the true bond that individuals should strive to discovery. Through Jane’s behaviors power cannot be given to her male counterpart Rochester. Instead a balance of power is formed. Consequently, through Jane’s need to be seen and appreciated as an equal the torment that she endures strengthens her character and allows her to become an independent woman versus the naivety that is seen in women conforming to social requirements. Rochester tries

“The human heart has hidden treasures, In secret kept, in silence sealed; The thoughts, the hopes, the dreams, the pleasures, Whose charms were broken if revealed.” (Bronte). Jane had many hidden treasures that were hidden by the times, hidden by the oppression of her life, situations and longing to belong somewhere. Jane was not one to stand down at the sight of failure; however, Jane had no choice, but to stare failure in the face because not only was she a woman before rights were given equally, but she was despised by almost everyone she meets up until Rochester. Jane’s only friend left by losing her life and to think of someone who must go through so many obstacles and come out pretty much on top may have been rare in this time of oppression

Inspiration of Jane Eyre: The Layers of Love Tammy Tran University of Houston-Clear Lake   Abstract The type of speech is a speech to inspire; more specifically, the speech is to inspire life lessons from the experiences of Jane Eyre, a British fictional character from the novel Jane Eyre. Jane Eyre personifies love. She embodies not just love of romance, but also love of friendship, love of enemies, and love of herself. Through the difficulties she experienced as a child and as an adult, Jane would be a great example of how love developed her character and how others may be affected by it.

   Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte focuses primarily on love, specifically romantic love and it is the way in which Charlotte Bronte challenges 19th century socio-cultural views on gender and romance, as well as other discourses within the novel such as class and status that makes Jane Eyre successful.

Mr. Brocklehurst preaches to Jane about sin and the Bible but Jane refuses to say what he wants to hear. Her first taste of rebellion continues in her encounter with Mrs. Reed. Jane says, "I am glad you are no relation of mine. I will never call you aunt again as long as I live. I will never come to see you when I am grown up; and if anyone asks me how I liked you, and how you treated me, I will say the very thought of you makes me sick, and that you treated me with miserable cruelty"(Bronte 30). Jane has the courage to stand up once and for all to her aunt. She has an unexplainable feeling inside, "the strangest sense of freedom, of triumph...it seemed as if an invisible bond had burst,"(Bronte 30), and this feeling is the cause of Jane's breaks from containment later on in the novel.

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

Charlotte Brontë wrote her most famous novel Jane Eyre in the 1840’s. It was published in 1847 under a pseudo name “Currer Bell” and received a lot of criticism after it turned out that the novel had a female author because it offered an extended female perspective about the proper behaviour of women at that time (many people in the Victorian era believed the role of women was to stay at home and be the angels of safeness and in doing so, they were almost completely at the mercy of the male participant of the relationship). Opposed to this, Brontë created a strong and unconventional heroine who demanded respect for herself while maintaining her self-control and passion all through the novel. A number of critics attune her behaviour to those of a 19th century feminist and the following paper will discuss whether Jane’s characteristics really fit the feminist behaviour through looking at stages of her life and decisions through her interactions with the people around her.

The Gothic Features of Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte A Gothic novel is a type of literature, which became very popular in the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries. In this time, society was governed by strict moral codes. The "Gothics" would escape into a world of dark, supernatural and wild passions. The word 'Gothic' meant barbarous and wild and many writers liked to involve these elements in their novels.