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I think that Jane Eyre is a great book because it covers the never-ending theme of love and marriage, religion, class status and relation between a man and a woman. This book can be related from the Victorian Ages to now.
1. Personification- "every breath from the hills so full of life, that it seemed whoever respired it, though dying, might revive. Hills cannot breathe, and the wind cannot heal." (Chapter 27)
2. Personification- "And now vegetation matured with vigor; Lowood shook loose its tresses; it became all green, all flowery; its great elm, ash and oak skeletons were restored to majestic life.." (Chapter 9)
Jane runs away from Thornfield so that she won’t be tempted to live in sin with Rochester. She goes and lives with St. John (Sinjin) and her other cousins, and St. John wanted to marry her, but she meets back up with Rochester.
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Social Class- Jane Eyre is critical of Victorian England’s strict social hierarchy. Jane’s manners, sophistication, and education are those of an aristocrat, because Victorian governesses, who tutored children in etiquette as well as academics, were expected to possess the “culture” of the aristocracy. Yet, as paid employees, they were more or less treated as servants; thus, Jane remains penniless and powerless while at Thornfield.
1. The Red Room- Jane must overcome in her struggles to find freedom, happiness, and a sense of belonging. Although Jane is eventually freed from the room, she continues to be socially ignored, financially trapped, and excluded from love.
2. Love vs. Autonomy- Jane Eyre is very much the story of a quest to be loved. Jane searches, not just for romantic love, but also for a sense of being valued. Thus Jane says to Helen Burns: “to gain some real affection from you, or Miss Temple, or any other whom I truly love, I would willingly submit to have the bone of my arm broken, or to let a bull toss me, or to stand behind a kicking horse, and let it dash its hoof at my chest” (Chapter 8).
Charlotte Brontë was born in Yorkshire, England on April 21, 1816 to Maria Branwell and Patrick Brontë. Because Charlotte’s mother died when Charlotte was five years old, Charlotte’s aunt, a passionate Methodist, helped her brother-in-law raise his children. In 1824 Charlotte and three of her sisters Maria, Elizabeth, and Emily were sent to Cowan Bridge. When an outbreak of tuberculosis killed Maria and Elizabeth. Several years later, Charlotte returned to school, this time in Roe Head, England. She became a teacher at the school in 1835 but decided after several years to become a private governess instead.
1. Jane falls in love with her employer, Rochester, but can't tell him because their different ranks. (poor vs. rich)
2. Jane's internal conflict, the battle between her humility and intelligence on one hand and her passion on the other. It is a fight between emotions and reason, between morality and sin. These conflicts are never satisfactorily resolved Jane does indeed get her man in the end, but only after he has been severely and permanently injured.