Deception can prove to be a powerful tool—both in the real world and in literature. While it is typically viewed as malicious, some forms of deception can prove to be beneficial in the long run. This kind of deceit is very prevalent in Charlotte Brontë’s Jane Eyre. Mr. Rochester, specifically, spends a large portion of the story deceiving many characters, but most of his lies are directed towards Jane. At first, the façade he puts on seems questionable, but his motives behind his actions show that he had good intentions.
Jane Eyre is an autobiography, written by Charlotte Bronte which was written in order contradict the beliefs during the Victorian era, therefore providing an insight into Victorian England social hierarchy and the human nature desire to be loved. To illustrate, throughout the novel there are events such as the following excerpt “ You think I have no feelings, and that I can do without one bit of love or kindness; but I cannot live so: and you have no pity” (Bronte 42), where Jane contradicts the views of how a woman should behave during the Victorian age, being Jane has had enough of the injustice from Mrs.Reed and stands up for herself. In addition, being that the novel was written in order to contradict the beliefs during the Victorian Era,
The passions may rage furiously, like true heathens, as they are; and the desires may imagine all sorts of vain things: but judgement shall still have the last word in every argument… (Bronte 277).” This nameless fortune-teller reinforces the supernatural attributes in the novel, thereby deepening the strange, whimsicality and dark themes presented through means of mysticism, which often thought to be very real. She reads Jane in a way that sparks curiosity and wonder, as if she truly possessed powers beyond any mortal realm, being able to identify and define Jane’s independent personality by a merely looking at her physical appearance. It is a foreshadowing of her decisions, reiterating the fact that Jane is different from normal women, highlighting a true shock to many people of the age, as many women probably would have
It is ironic that Jane is seen as the guilty party in the incident with John Reed because John started the fight when he slapped Jane. Then when John’s sisters, Eliza and Georgina, go to “tattle tale” on Jane, their mother blames Jane for the whole situation. Jane compares John to a “murderer,” “slave-driver,” and “Roman Emperors” (Bronte 9). During this comparison, she is implying that he is a very cruel and awful person. That he would beat her and boss her around.
Jane Eyre is the main character in the book Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte. Jane Eyre was an orphaned as a child. She was mistreated by her aunt Mrs. Reed and her cousin John reed. She’s talented, hard-working, honest, and when she can’t contain her anger, she lets it all out. Well Mrs. Reed, which is Jane’s aunt-by-marriage, hates her.
Haadi Malik Mullins AP English & Literature/9th Period 18 October 2015 What is Wrong with Jane? Jane Eyre, authored by Charlotte Bronte, demonstrates, the issue of male superiority versus female independence, Jane’s and Rochester’s love for each other, and promoting the ideas of feminism in the nineteenth century. Throughout many events in the novel, Jane emphasizes that women are equal to men. For example, when Rochester proposes to Jane, she made sure that he agreed to look upon her as an equal.
Through the novel, we see that Jane’s faith is of the utmost importance. There are many instances where Jane’s faith is stretched, but we find that Jane continuously stays true to her morality. Although Jane has a lack of faith early on, there were certain people and instances in her life where we see her faith deepen and we find that Jane overcomes the folly of youth. Bronte seems to place a very high regard for spirituality and faith and she uses the eyes of Jane to show the reader what true Christianity is and what it isn’t.
Jane Eyre: A Quest for True Happiness Charlotte Bronte’s classic heartfelt novel entitled “Jane Eyre” depicts how an unloved orphan constantly wishes for affection and acceptance throughout her life. Even at an early age in life, she never truly understood what it meant to be “loved” and what it means to “love” others. With this, maturing into a young lady definitely opened her eyes to the realities of life. Moreover, the novel also depicts a patriarchal society where women aren’t respected with dignity and equality. In this coming of age novel, discover how a young woman courageously faced her fears and triumphed with love in the end.
Jane is depicted with warm, fiery imagery that represents her passionate spirit; It is evident that Jane often disagrees with people who come across as cold, with icy attributes. Basically, those who try to put out Jane's passionate spirit with their oppressive cold ways. When Jane Eyre is locked in the Red Room for going against her abusive cousin John Reed, she describes it as being a cold and dark space that was “solemn” (14). All the warmth, passion, and fire that the Red Room lacks emerges from Jane once her punishment is over and manifests itself in the confrontation with Mrs. Reed, which causes her “own passionate nature to bloom” (“"Fire and water imagery" in Jane Eyre 2015”). Jane uses her voice to escape from the silence imposed by her repressive aunt or any other authoritarian figure, which stands with the "contrasting elements” (“"Fire and water imagery" in Jane Eyre 2015”) that stand between her and her passionate spirit.
Insight: Jane Eyre gets in a fight with her aunt with how she wants to go to school but her aunt is making her look bad. Jane leaves the aunt's house to go to school. Summary: Jane Eyre goes to a new school. Her aunt never said go bye to her when she was leaving the house. She then meets new friends and finds someone who was treated like she was.
In the novel Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte, many of the character have experiences in their life that challenge them, and ultimately change who they are. Throughout the book, people's traits and characteristics will fluctuate, and adapt to their circumstances. This essay will discuss how the character of Jane Eyre has events in her life that alter her personality and how she views the world. In other words, Jane Eyre will have one opinion at the beginning of the book, but by the end it’s completely changed. This is important to understand these changes in her in order to recognize what the author is trying to communicate.
Gothic Literature and Jane Eyre Ever since gothic literature’s debut in 1764 when Horace Walpole wrote The Castle of Otranto, gothic novels have followed common patterns that Walpole set in place. Elements such as creepy locales, damsels-in-distress, and otherworldly, supernatural happenings have characterized gothic literature for the past two centuries. Charlotte Brontë’s novel Jane Eyre is no different. Brontë, although sometimes unnoticeably, includes many of the key elements that gothic novels have classically been known to have.
Haunting howls sounded through the small, decrepit settlement in the middle of the night, waking up the local peasantry and causing the cattle to break out of the old barn. The howls escalated, drowning out the screaming and crying that'd spread through the village, turning into ghastly roaring and the sound of burning wood, as the outermost houses went up in flames. I stepped out of my house holding a hand ax. Everyone else already ran out out to calm down the cattle and rouse the other townsfolk, handing them pitchforks and axes, while I was given the task of hiding valuables in a secret cellar. The elder thought we could fend this attack off, but this time, he was wrong.
Jane Eyre, a novel by Charlotte Bronte, was based off of the Victorian time period. This time period was notorious for gender and social inequality. The society at the time barely allowed women to work, and certainly not allowed to vote. The ideals of inequality within genders were brutal and evident throughout the novel, making the book rather controversial. This is no different regarding the social inequalities, which were more underlying, but still clearly shown by Bronte.
With Charlotte Brontë’s father being a clergyman and member of the Church, Charlotte Brontë, as well as her sisters have been in constant contact with religion throughout their whole lives. Even though her father gave Charlotte relative freedom in developing her own ideas and beliefs, religion was an important factor in Charlotte Brontë’s life nevertheless. Through Jane Eyre Charlotte Brontë expresses several issues of Victorian Britain, such as gender equality or the class system but religion is a reoccurring and omnipresent subject in Jane Eyre. Throughout the whole novel Jane is confronted with religious characters such as Mr Brocklehurst, Helen Burns and St. John Rivers. Those characters all represent three vastly different variations of Christian faith in the Victorian Era.
