Santino Villarreal AP English IV 12 January 2015 Mrs. Solano Jane Eyre Review List 1.) Jane Eyre 2.) Charlotte Brontë 3.) Feminist Novel 4.) October 1847 5.) Each place Jane travels to, she experiences something about herself and others. As an individual, she grows and learns lessons from each setting. It contributes to Jane Eyre because from going through hardships at the time, she eventually blossoms into this person who doesn’t give up on herself and discovers who she really just from being at Gateshead, Lowood School, Rochester’s Thornfield Manor House, the Moor House, and Ferndean. 6.) The two major characters are Jane Eyre and Edward Rochester. Jane Eyre is an orphan who is portrayed as a strong minded woman who goes through a lot during …show more content…
Brocklehurst, and Bessie Lee. Helen Burns is Jane’s best friend during her stay at Lowood School and gives Jane advice that she takes into consideration and is admired by Jane because Helen remains to look at the brighter side of things despite all the obstacles she went through. “I hold another creed: … it makes Eternity a rest—a mighty home, not a terror and an abyss. … with this creed revenge never worries my heart, degradation never too deeply disgusts me, injustice never crushes me too low: I live in calm, looking to the end.” Mr. Brocklehurst is a cruel man who is the master of Lowood School who can be seen as hypocritical and a man of deceit because he tries to ruin the reputation of Jane Eyre by publicly announcing that she is a “liar”. “This is the pedestal of infamy, and you will remain on it all day long. You will have neither food nor drink for you must learn how barren is the life of a sinner. Children, I exhort you to shun her, exclude her, shut her out from this day forth. Withhold the hand of friendship and deny your love to Jane Eyre, the liar.” Bessie Lee is a maid at Gateshead and is the only person in the Reed’s residence that treats Jane Eyre kindly by singing hers songs and telling her stories. “Bessie Lee must, I think, have been a girl of good natural capacity, for she was smart in all she did, and had a remarkable knack of narrative; so, at least, I judge from the impression made on me by her …show more content…
The theme love conveys life in the book when it comes to marriage because Jane feels as if Mr. Rochester has more things in common with her than anyone else because they share something intangible despite their social classes. “He is not to them what he is to me," I thought: "he is not of their kind. I believe he is of mine; – I am sure he is, – I feel akin to him, – I understand the language of his countenance and movements: though rank and wealth sever us widely, I have something in my brain and heart, in my blood and nerves, that assimilates me mentally to him. … I must, then, repeat continually that we are for ever sundered: – and yet, while I breathe and think I must love him.” Education conveys life in the book because when Jane attended Lowood School, she found learning as an enjoyable thing because getting an education was her own way of proving others wrong who doubted her. “I had meant to be so good, and to do so much at Lowood; to make so many friends, to earn respect, and win affection. Already I had made visible progress: that very morning I had reached the head of my class; Miss Miller had praised me warmly; Miss Temple had smiled approbation; she had promised to teach me drawing, and to let me learn French, if I continued to make similar improvement two months longer: and then I was well-received by my fellow-pupils; treated as an equal by those of my own age, and not molested by any: now,