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    As the story progresses and Mr. Rochester starts to spend more time with Antoinette, he starts to become more critical towards her, and starts to feel a distance between them. She is so foreign to him that he acts out in the only way he knows how to and will say anything to himself to make himself believe that she is off and is not the person he wants her to be, and it has nothing to do with him as a person, and his personal preferences. As soon as Mr. Rochester and Antoinette arrive to the town

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    different characters. While Jane struggles to find her own interpretation of Christianity, she is subjected to a few characters including Helen Burns and Mr. Brocklehurst, who pose very different ideals and ways of acting for her to consider. On one hand we have Mr. Brocklehurst, who is extremely cruel and does terrible things to children under the guise of cleansing their weakness, yet he treats his own family like royalty, showing his true hypocrisy and the fault of his ways. Jane very obviously does not

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    literature, Agnes Grey and The Tenant of Wildfell Hall. In addition, she also wrote several poems including Farewell, A Prayer, and Confidence. Anne Brontë is part of a literary dynasty with her famous sisters Charlotte Brontë, known for writing Jane Eyre, and Emily Brontë, known for writing Wuthering Heights. Although Anne Brontë is thought of as the least talented Brontë sister, she has continued to dominate English Literature for almost 200 years (Devaney, 2014).

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    spirituality and impress their religious beliefs on her. However, these characters, whom of which are Mr. Brocklehurst and St. John, all live in such a way that contradicts what they claim to believe. Therefore, Jane rejects the religion presented to her and attempts to become her own savior. As a child, Jane encountered hypocrisy under the label of Christianity with Mr. Brocklehurst. Her first meeting with him consisted of him condemning her for not ‘liking the Psalms.” Mr. Brocklehurst specifically tells

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    Bronte’s Jane Eyre, Jane begins as a ten year old girl who shows insecurity at home. She felt the need to meet her aunt’s expectations to be seen as part of the family. After Jane lives at Lowood for eight years, she grows to become a young independent woman. She is capable of making decisions for herself and expressing her own opinion. In the last events of the book, Jane demonstrates her self-worth. She is able to resist hardships in her life and start thinking for herself. In the novel, Jane transitions

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    Strange Old Ladies In the novel To Kill a Mockingbird, by Harper Lee, old lady Mrs. Henry Lafayette Dubose is quite a weird character, in the manner that she acts to her quirky or rude little comments on virtually anything, but nevertheless, Miss Adela Strangeworth in “The Possibility of Evil”, by Shirley Jackson is debatably an even more strange character, with her rude, degrading mailing system, her need to feel justified in deconstructing everyone and her amusing facade on the outside, shielding

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    Jane, being the negative lady, had been so caught up in all the negative things in life that she forgot about the positives of life. Jane walked off, somewhat less irked knowing that her coworkers remembered her Birthday better than herself. But, she soon realized that she hated office parties. Jane was a journalist in a small newspaper in New York, The New York Daily Input. She got to write poems for her section, “The World Around Us”. If you knew Jane, you would think she wasn’t the best candidate

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    In Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte, societal prejudices are used to expose the social boundaries set by Victorian Society which confine Jane within a standard, causing her to push set societal boundaries, which combine to reveal her nature as a character. An example of the effects of Jane being contained within social boundaries is shown on page 86 of Jane Eyre, when Jane cries “Then, grant me at least a new servitude!”. She is longing for freedom, yet yearns for “servitude”. This situation shows

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    women being self-described feminist upholds our dominance and femininity in society. Jane from Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte takes on different tests and trials that eventually shapes her in society through her view on feminism. Jane seems to overcome different obstacles through her life, that later converge and appear to maturate and show through her independence in womanhood and feminism views. Jane has grown up in different conditions all her life. Her family didn’t love her or give

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    movie ends, Ms. Meredith takes Sarah Jane in, and will presumably take on a motherly role with her. This has always been what Sarah Jane has wanted, a white mother, and for herself to be seen as a white person. From a young age she always hated being black, and resented her mother for it. When her mother came to her school because she forgot her lunch, Sarah Jane showed she was clearly ashamed to have Annie as a mother. However, after Annie’s death, Sarah Jane would be able to pass

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