Similarities Between Jane Eyre And Never Let Me Go
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Charlotte Bronte’s, Jane Eyre, and Kasuo Ishiguro’s, Never Let Me Go, are both authentically powerful novels that articulate and analyze the problems in society. Jane Eyre is a coming-of-age story, or a bildungsroman, where the main character, Jane Eyre is supposed to find her place in society by the end, to achieve a balance between self and society. On the other hand, Never Let Me Go, can be read as dystopian fiction, where the author takes a fault or faults in our modern world and places those into an unpleasant imaginary world. Ishiguro also transfects and addresses a tension between self and society. Both novels equally represent the characters transitioning from innocence to experience in rather similar ways. The development of the main…show more content… When Jane resides at Gateshead, she is very young and angry, but before that she was oppressed and imprisoned. The only way she could escape the oppression was through rage. She had no concept of reality because she was so young and did not grow up in a conventional environment; she was an orphan, unloved and mistreated by her caregiver, her aunt Mrs. Reed. Gateshead embodied her imprisonment and then “gateway” into a world she, even at a young age, knew she did not want to be a part of. “"You ought to be aware, Miss, that you are under obligations to Mrs. Reed: she keeps you: if she were to turn you off, you would have to go to the poor-house." (Bronte 16) I had nothing to say to these words: they were not new to me: my very first recollections of existence included hints of the same kind. This reproach of my dependence had become a vague sing-song in my ear; very painful and crushing, but only half intelligible.” Jane is then sent to Lowood Institute where she experiences a low in her life, the school is not properly taken care of and she is wrongly accused of being a liar. She stays at Lowood until she decides it is time for her to find herself and come into society. She then becomes the duchess at Thornfield where she experiences love, temptation and mystery. The name of Thornfield almost has a biblical reference, with the roses…show more content… Tommy and Kathy’s theory behind the importance of the art that they had created their whole lives was to prove that their love was true. Evidencing that their love was real, they were made to believe through rumors, could possibly mean a deferral from their Completion for a few years. They are then corrected by Madaam and Miss Emily and told that the art and the art gallery were kept to use as evidence that clones have souls, and that is simply that. Hailsham was theoretically a shiney beacon towards what the world should be. The scene where Tommy is explaining to Madaam and Miss Emily his theory, represents a kind of Blakean moment, the reality of donor conditions is known to Tommy, yet he chooses in believing in truth, love, souls and the exception to the rule. This is part of what makes the novel so sad, they do not understand what their life is until they accept that it essentially means nothing and there is nothing they can do to change the reality of their