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otherwise known as Charlotte Bronte, supports her inventive writing style throughout her novel Jane Eyre, where her ability to portray such loveless adolescence for main character, Jane, stunned me, as the poor orphan culminated into a victorious, heroic adult. While motherhood during the Victorian Era was the gateway to female fulfillment in a male-dominant society, I questioned Bronte’s choice in constraining Jane to such a toxic, unbearable childhood without a mother, but sought even more,
development of its protagonist as they mature. Jane Eyre is an example of a character who grows from a poor mistreated orphan to a powerful woman who controls her own life. In the end of the novel Jane matures when she realizes her true desire to be with Rochester. Jane finally realizes what she wants and goes after it by returning to Rochester’s estate, Thornfield. In Jane Eyre, a bildungsroman, the pivotal moment in the psychological development of Jane is her return to Rochester to live with him
Fire and ice play major roles in Jane Eyre. Over the course of the text, these two elements develop and show the contrasts between characters and situations. Fire is used in different forms throughout the novel: physically, figuratively and emotionally. Whether appearing as flames in a fireplace, or used to represent a character’s personality, fire is passionate. Though fire can be calmed it can never be conformed. Ice is the opposition of fire, and it appears frequently throughout the novel. The
Self-Reliance a cohesive statement of individualism, which contained his most meticulous comment of the need for each individual to avoid conformity. Although many novels’ principal goal wasn’t to advocate individualism, we see copious amounts of characters with the underlying theme of individualism. In Charles Dickens’s Great Expectations, Charlotte Bronte’s Jane Eyre, and
A Critique of a Critique: The Not Plain Jane Sandra M. Gilbert’s article “A Dialogue of Self and Soul: Plain Jane’s Progress,” provides a deeper view of female oppression through the novel Jane Eyre, with supported examples on the repression of the main character, Jane. Gilbert exposes Jane as being degraded from Mr. Rochester throughout her experience at Thornfield. In reality, Jane is not an oppressed female who has to be at a man’s service; Jane is strong self-determining woman who manages to
Jane Eyre is structured in chunks relating to location. As Jane moves onto another location with new characters, her maturity moves on too. In the beginning of the novel, when set at Gateshead, Jane is a girl who feels isolated and hated by the Reed family. She has trouble controlling her anger when put into difficult situations. At Lowood school. She learns to handle her anger, mainly because of the advice given to her by her friend, Helen Burns. By the time Jane is living at Thornfield, readers