Explore how Jane Eyre is presented in the novel of the same character name. What would the original readers have thought of her?
Explore how Jane Eyre is presented in the novel of the same character name. What would the original readers have thought of her? I am going to explore how the character of Jane Eyre develops throughout the story and how charlotte Bronte shows the development of Jane's persona from her time at Lowood as a sad and lonely child to when she is a happy grown woman living at Thornfield. As a child at Gateshead and Lowood she always spoke her mind. When she was about to leave Gateshead she told her aunt Reed what she felt about her. Jane says "I am not deceitful; if I were, I should say I loved you; but I declare I do not love you: I dislike you the worst of anybody in the world except John Reed." later on, she says to Mrs Reed, "I am glad you are no relation of mine." In those days children did not say anything like that. They would not answer back. Even if they did hate their carers they would hold their tongues and not say anything for fear of being beaten or worse. While she was living at Gateshead she felt inferior to the other children. Charlotte Bronte describes this in the novel when John, Eliza and Georgiana are clustered around their mamma by the fire in the drawing room but Jane is not allowed to go near them. On the first page Jane tells the reader that she is, "humbled by the consciousness of my physical inferiority to Eliza, John and Georgiana Reed." Jane becomes
Explore the presentation of the relationships between adults and children in chapters 1-9 of Jane Eyre 'Jane Eyre', written in 1846 by Charlotte Bront, was first published in 1847
Siobhan Taylor 10N Explore the presentation of the relationships between adults and children in chapters 1-9 of Jane Eyre 'Jane Eyre', written in 1846 by Charlotte Brontë, was first published in 1847 and instantly became a success. It is quite a controversial book, covering many areas of prejudice, such as the place of women and children in society, discrimination against lower classes and mentally ill people, which were usually not dealt with at that time. The areas covered in this essay will be the relationship between children and adults, which will be affected by class consciousness. The story is told through the eyes of Jane Eyre, therefore written in first person. Jane has been orphaned and lives with her aunt and in the chapters studied her life with her aunt and family and her school life are addressed. Brontë uses many of her own experiences as a child to form the characters and places in the book, for example. Charlotte Brontë was sent to a boarding school like Lowood in 'Jane Eyre'. This allows the book to be descriptive and realistic, so we can relate with Jane as fully as possible. Jane suffers abuse from the adults in this book, being both mental and physical. There is also a lot of injustice in her life, brought about by a lack of understanding of her character. These types of abuse are not only experienced by Jane but by other children in the novel too.
What functions do the descriptions of place in
What functions do the descriptions of place in "Jane Eyre" fulfil, and what ways do they add depth to the story? Charlotte Bronte wrote the novel "Jane Eyre" during the Victorian period in 1847. She wrote under a man's name, Currer Bell, so that she would find it easier to get her book published. The book is about the life of a strong, brave, an independent woman who has many adventures along the way to happiness. There are five main settings in the novel where Jane finds herself. The first setting is Gateshead where she lives with her aunt by marriage. Her uncle Reed has died and the aunt, who is not a blood relative, treats her badly. Her cousins also treat her badly. Therefore, the house has no comfort for her. In fact, at the age of ten, she prefers to leave it and go to boarding school. The reader can understand why she wishes to leave Gateshead because of the actions done to her and the feelings she has for the place. At one point aunt Reed has her locked in the Red Room as punishment for arguing with her cousin. Bronte uses sympathetic background to stress the fear that Jane feels locked away, "I heard the rain beating continuously on the staircase window, and the wind howling in the grove behind the hall; I grew by degrees cold as a stone, and then my courage sank." The weather is in sympathy with her fearful feelings. The simile "cold as a stone" helps the reader
American Beauty
I am doing a review on the movie " American Beauty" I decided on focusing on one character . The character I will be focusing on is, Lester Burnham (Kevin Spacey). Kevin Spacey turns in a sharp performance as your everyday average Joe who's finally fed up with his life. It's just that his life is unusually miserable: It's just painfully monotonous. He's stuck in a loveless marriage to a woman obsessed with materialism, his job doesn't offer him the respect he deserves, and his daughter and wife both don't really give a damn about him on e way or the other. As the central character, he narrates the opening of the story, and starts it off with a shocker in the first 3 minutes: He says" I"m a 42 year old and even though I don't know it, in less than a year I'll be dead." the statement, relayed and such simplicity, immediately grabs your attention and sets up some anticipation of what's about to come. What follows is the nightmarishly boring life spacey's character leads. We watch as his icy wife drives aroun her Mercedes minivan and closes real estates deals all while he puts up with this crap, unitl one day he says that enough. Lester Burnham decides to make a few changes in his rut life, changes that are less midlife crisis than adolescence reborn. The freer he gets the happier he gets, which is more maddening to his wife, Carolyn, and daughter Jane - especially when he turns
How does Charlotte Bront engage the Readers Sympathy For Jane Eyre in Chapters one and two?
How does Charlotte Brontë engage the Reader's Sympathy For Jane Eyre in Chapters one and two? The novel Jane Eyre is the story of a girl's life and how she matures to become an adult it follows the emotions and experiences that motivate her development into adulthood. The girl whose name is Jane Eyre is left to her uncle when her parents die when she is young, her uncle also dies soon after leaving her to his wife, Jane's aunt. A wealth of different techniques are used to engage the reader's sympathy for Jane Eyre these include the language used, the themes of the novel and Jane's experiences Brontë expresses Jane's experiences in first person narrative, this makes it easier for the reader to relate to the events. She is portrayed as an inferior in comparison to her relatives. The significance being that her blood relations look down upon her as a creature that does not deserve respect and acceptance into their 'home'. In particular Jane arrives 'home in the raw twilight', use of words such as raw emphasise her personal suffering and endurance reflected in her surroundings. The irony is her pain-ridden tone as she describes the journey back 'home'; this is universally a place of warmth and comfort, where as here, it is foreign. Jane perceives the journey as an obligation to return, she has no desire to return back to the household. Jane is also shown to be physically
How does Charlotte Bronte make the reader sympathise with the eponymous hero in Jane Eyre?
Laura Wilson 0ROB First draft of coursework Title: How does Charlotte Bronte make the reader sympathise with the eponymous hero in Jane Eyre? Charlotte Bronte wrote the novel 'Jane Eyre' in 1847. In this essay I shall focus on Jane's experiences with her family and focus on her personality. I shall also focus on how Charlotte Bronte uses techniques when writing about Jane. Jane arrived at Gateshead Hall to live with her aunt and uncle as her parents are dead and Jane is a 'dependant.' Jane is wrongly accused of an incident which involves herself and Master John Reed. Jane is accused of starting a fight and no-one believes that she isn't to blame. Jane therefore gets punished for her cousin's evilness. Jane's punished by her aunt and gets sent to the red-room where she is told 'God will punish her', Jane is also told 'when you are by yourself; for if you dont repent, something bad might be permitted to come down the chimney, and fetch you away.' The first reason why we sympathise with Jane is because she is isolated. Jane lives with her aunt and cousin's in her head uncle's home of Gateshead Hall. Jane's uncle took Jane in after she was left 'a parentless infant.' However her uncle, on his deathbed, made his wife promise to look after Jane. Considering Jane's aunt made this promise to her dying husband she didn't keep her promise. Jane's
Explore to what extent Charlotte Bronte's treatment of women in Jane Eyre is in fact a social commentary on life in the 19th century.
ENLGISH JANE EYRE COURSE WORK Explore to what extent Charlotte Bronte's treatment of women in Jane Eyre is in fact a social commentary on life in the 19th century. BY EDWARD SEMPRINI FORM 5 Explore to what extent charlotte Bronte's treatment of woman in Jane Eyre is in-fact a social commentary on life in the 19th century Charlotte Bronte was born at Thornton in Yorkshire in 1816; she was the third child of Patrick and Maria Bronte. She had four sisters and one brother, but in 1921 her mother died. Charlotte and her sisters except form Anne were sent to a clergyman's daughter's boarding school, which is portrayed as lowood in Jane Eyre. Maria the eldest sister, who in Jane Eyre is portrayed as Helen Burns and her other sister Elizabeth were taken by a serious illness and lowood and they died in Haworth. Charlotte after her school years was employed as a teacher and became a governess, then in 1842 went to study languages in Brussels with her other sister Emily. This also seems to relate to Jane Eyre's life as in the novel Jane also became a governess and also later went to study languages with her cousin. So this proves that Jane Eyre was set on charlottes life. Charlotte then died after a quite successful life in 1855. Chapter one mostly portrays about Jane's youth at Gateshead hall, we find out about the her uncles family, Jane had a tough child hood when under the
How does Charlotte Bronte create sympathy for Jane in the first two chapters and four passages of your choice in her novel Jane Eyre?
How does Charlotte Bronte create sympathy for Jane in the first two chapters and four passages of your choice in her novel Jane Eyre? Charlotte Bronte takes her reader on an emotional journey through the life of her eponymous heroine – Jane Eyre. Through this journey the reader learns all about Jane’s distressing experiences and elated peaks, making the reader develop sympathy and empathy for her. Bronte sets out her story using a first person narrative of Jane speaking through a retrospective voice. The first person narrative enables us to connect with Jane and understand all the elements of Jane’s character whilst looking back from her fears of childhood to her love for the mysterious, sardonic Mr Rochester. Bronte opens her novel ‘Jane Eyre’ and already you can identify the realistic element. Bronte uses three categories that base around ‘Jane Eyre’; Realistic, gothic and romantic to show all the different sides of Jane’s journey and to encourage us to feel connected to Jane. When reading chapter one and two of Bronte’s novel we begin to understand Jane’s position in the Reeds family life style. Although family (Mrs. Reed being Jane’s aunt) she is regarded as an animal - not one of them. Aunt Reed (and her children) has been told to look after Jane by her husband before he died although Mrs. Reed doesn’t keep this wish entirely fulfilled and
Jane eyre
Jane Eyre In the novel Jane Eyre, the author creates an image of the differences between men and women; she also portrays the way people behaved with women in the 19th century. Jane had to face many problems and tolerate many obstacles just because she was an orphan and was very poor. She had to live with her aunt who treated her like an animal. Jane was taken to be so inferior that even the servants treated her like her like rubbish. To maintain a high status in the 19th century you had to be rich and have at least one servant. If you were upper middle class or middle class then it would have been easier for you to get a job, you would also easily gain more respect, enjoy some diversity, and were able to exhibit more authority. However if you were form the lower class you would feel more alienated and would find it hard to live the life of a normal person. You would live life completely opposite to the way the poor lived life. Charlotte Bronte used many techniques such as pathetic fallacy to create sympathy for Jane. Charlotte Bronte uses pathetic fallacy many times throughout the book to show how Jane feels. Jane was treated and made to feel invisible 'leafless shrubbery' shows that the shrub is alive however it is leafless in the same way, Jane is alive however she is not living life like every other normal person. She is like a living corpse. Jane breathes however she
Jane Eyre.
Jane Eyre From the very first page of the novel Jane Eyre, her isolation, determination and independence is apparent. During her life she continues to be isolated, whether it's the death of a friend or just not being accepted, this isolation makes her independent and determined throughout. During the first chapter, Jane's family are all in one room while she reads a book in the other room. This is a very strong image that shows that she was isolated, and not equal to them from the very beginning of the story. In a later scene, john reed walks into the room where Jane is reading. He finds her and accuses her of reading his book without his permission. He hits her and throws the book at her. Jane stands up to him and says he is like a roman slave driver. This shows she doesn't go without a fight mainly because she has been mistreated before. John shouts to his family and they come rushing in. The family blame Jane of insulting John and she is taken to the red room. This is another demonstration of her isolation during the novel and also it portrays the character of John Reed quite vividly. Throughout the novel she continues to have no one to turn to for help or comfort. Jane leaves the house to go to Lowood School mainly because the family are fed up of her apparent attitude problem. During her first days in Lowood she is finding it hard to settle in. The teachers are strict