... relation of mine; I will never call you aunt again as long as I live" (Bronte, p27). Once at Lowood School Jane, at first, finds no more love or acceptance than at the Reeds. Mr. Broklehurst, the schools headmaster, is a cruel, hypocritical, and abusive Jones 2 man, and most of the teachers are strict ... meets a young girl, Helen Burns, and a strong friendship begins. Shortly after, however, Helen dies and Jane is, again, left alone without anyone to really love her. Jane stays at Lowood until she is eighteen and decides to find a new job. She becomes a governess at Thornfield Hall for...

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... renowned independence prompts her to leave Lowood and seek the job of a governess somewhere else. There she meets Edward Rochester, and almost immediately falls in love. After finding out a deep dark secret about Mr. Rochester, Jane is forced to once again leave the place she called home and move on in ... Jesus Christ. The dependence Jane has upon herself helps her gain the courage to leave St. John Rivers and Whitcross and to find her one true love - Mr. Rochester. Ever since she could remember, Jane has lived with her Aunt Reed, and her cousins Georgiana, Eliza, and John. All of ... ...

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... together. Mr. Rochester leaves suddenly for a house party at a local estate. Jane is miserable during his absence and realizes that she has fallen deeply in love with him. Mr. Rochester returns with a party of guests including the beautiful Blanche Ingram. In a jealous state, Jane believes that Mr. Rochester is pursuing ... coach that takes her to faraway Whitcross. She roams around looking for work and begging for food until finally she wonders to a home owned by the River's family, who offers her shelter. Jane soon becomes close friends with St. Johns sisters, Diana and Mary and offers...

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... . She does not act upon them because Mr. Rochester is supposed to marry Blanche Ingram, a beautiful, fine, woman. Jane does not believe they truly love each other but they are good match for each other. Later Mr. Rochester admits that he used Blanche to make her jealous. He admits his ... she for me? None: as I have taken pains to prove...I would not-I could not-marry Miss Ingram. You-you strange, you almost unearthly thing! I love you as my own flesh. You-poor and obscure, and small and plain as you are-I entreat to accept me as a husband" (Bronte 241-242) ... her. Jane's uncle has died...

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... herself engrossed in literature. As an infant, she was loved and well cared for; as a child, she was shunned and turned away from the only family she knew; as an adult, she is set apart by others and easily made fun of. To Jane Eyre, complex social issues such as these are ... I noticed that Jane was hardly referred to as what she is. At Gateshead Hall, she is treated as though she is not a child in need of love and compassion or of a loving mother. As a child she is abused, neglected, and emotionally scarred by the people who should have treated her with kindness. She ... in a differ...

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... the school. Jane ended up working for Rochester, she was taking care of the kid. While she was working for Rochester, she suddenly was in love with him. Unfortunately, she found out that Rochester was married at the time.Jane leaves Thornfield and lives outdoors for awhile and then goes back to ... left Lowwood and went to Thornfield where she worked for Rochester. She was taking care of Adele. She liked the environment there and she fell in love with Rochester because she felt that he was the right person for her. Unfortunately, Mr. Briggs announced that Rochester couldn't marry Jane be...

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... show Jane's amicability. She never forced Rochester to make any rash decisions due to her desires. Jane leaves Thornfield to show her strength against a love that would make her compromise herself, and jeopardize her independence. Nevertheless, she gives in to her conscience and eventually returns after Rochester mysteriously calls to ... her. As the caring person she is, she cannot leave her love blind, cripple, and alone. She cannot help but feel responsible for leaving Rochester in such a horrible state. She knows what her escape did to ... with Rochester. This does not comply with La...

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... her while Cinderella is orphaned as a child and left in the care of her stepmother and stepsisters. Jane's search for love, family and independence is much more extensive than Cinderella's. Jane looks for a way of supporting herself and in turn finds love and family through Rochester. Cinderella takes a step towards being independent by going to the ball at the palace against her stepmother's wishes ... . During the ball she meets the prince and they fall in love. These two characters lead very parallel lives. When Jane was just a baby, both of ... her parents died. Her mother's brother...

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... Ferndean is the complete opposite of Thornfield. A fern often symbolizes a new beginning. Life at Ferndean is just that. The rebirth of Rochester and Jane's love and the start of a new life seem very promising. She is offered a new chance, a blank slate to start over again. "Ferndean then remained uninhabited ... (497). As shown in the quote, Ferndean is much like an artist's blank easel. Jane is now able to paint new memories with the family that she has always dreamt of. A fern is preferable to more isolated and hidden areas. The secluded tendency of Ferndean reflects this preference....

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... home. Due to her mistreatment, she develops the idea that appearance is the most important trait one can have and blames her unattractive appearance for the lack of love she receives from the Reed family. Jane's experience with forced isolation will cause her to isolate herself and question one's kindness towards her later in life. Unfortunately, situations will only become worse when ... her life from their absences, which leads her to Thornfield Hall. She continues to compare herself physically to others and connect appearance to the love and kindness they receive. However, she challe...

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... . Jane strives throughout the novel to receive the loving touch she has yearned for since her days of innocence. However, Jane's effort to find the love she is seeking remains fruitless until she meets Rochester. He is a man twenty years her senior whom gives her the attention she has long desired. ... automatically assumed the role of a father figure. He treats Jane as a schoolgirl and even questions her knowledge. He quizzes her about books she has read, her family, and her time at Lowood. Once he is has established all the answers he simply dismisses Jane by telling her to "go into th...

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... to Mr. Rochester who has a rather gruff and self-important manner. Their relationship begins to flourish and for the first time, Jane experiences true love. Mr. Rochester's queer advances stimulated Jane's emotions, but it came to the point where she needed to rethink her decision to accept his ... with close to nothing. Running from heartbreak, Jane found solace at Moor House. This home of St. John and his two sisters provided Jane with the "family" she had been longing for. Jane felt a "reviving pleasure in [the] intercourse" between the sisters and her, "of a kind now tasted by ... s...

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... do to remedy the injury?" Although he has managed to upset her, she doesn"t want him to know this. He continues to talk about his family, and this reflects more on his mockery of religious principles as he spoils his own daughters. They are finely dressed, which is in complete contrast ... poor people's children" and "they looked at my dress and mamma's as if they had never seen a silk gown before." His rules for his family compared with his pupils are completely different. Lowood is like torture for unwanted children, but this is what he thought was the right way to treat ... Even the ...

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... with her cruel Aunt Reed, she is sent to Lowood, a bitter charity school run by the ruthless Mr. Brocklehurst. She laments, "Human beings must love something, and, in the dearth of worthier objects of affection, I contrived to find a pleasure in loving and cherishing a faded graven image, shabby as a ... miniature scarecrow." A young woman absent the social advantages of family, wealth, and beauty, Jane suffers from the cruel treatment of Lowood because her aunt wants to punish her for her rebelliousness to the heartbreak in her ... Since the very beginning she refuses to kneel before ...

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... death at the school. This essay will attempt to show that because of the time period they grew up in, and their own family experiences the Byronic hero is so prevalent throughout their novels, "Jane Eyre," and, "Wuthering Heights," by ... should think. I dare say he is clever," (89). Since the original publishing of both Bronte novels, critics have argued about which male family member was the influence for the Bronte sisters' Byronic heroes. Raymond Williams' description of Charlotte and Emily's only brother, Branwell, makes it seem ... the novels as well. Another common characteristi...

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... telling". She wants to show the responders that she is a woman warrior. She shows this by telling stories of which she has experienced or her family has gone through. The novel consists of many difficult issues that Kingston encounters in having a Chinese-American identity. Kingston once told her Hawaiian teacher, " ... of immigrants, who are often raised as if they were in their parents" country of birth. In Charlotte Bronte's Jane Eyre, Jane's childhood lacks love and the experiences necessary in order to maintain healthy relationships, therefore causing her to go on a search for her id...

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... Lowood Institution, a type of charity school for girls. After she is grown, she leaves Lowood to become a governess at a place called Thornfield Hall. She falls in love with her employer, but finds out that she cannot marry him. Jane's parents died when she was young. She can't even remember them. She lived with her uncle ... and his family; but when her uncle died, her aunt did not want to care for her. She was little better than a servant. One day her cousin, John Reed, ... stool, and let no one speak to her during the remainder of the day.- (Chapter 7) Jane tried hard to be good in o...

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... and cousins. This creates her feeling of alienation. The constant malicious treatment she receives from her so called family causes her to become an angry, rebellious ten-year-old orphan who lacks the love and care needed for a young child. Such unfairness is exemplified early on with the incident between her ... to play with her cousins Eliza, Georgina, and John. John constantly harasses Jane for being an orphan and not being a true member of the Reed family. He continuously attempts to push Jane of the edge. After shoving her and throwing a book at her, Jane finally retaliates and the ...

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... When he leaves for London, for instance, he torments himself about having behaved so wretchedly toward Joe and Biddy. Second, Pip desires social self-improvement. In love with Estella, he longs to become a member of her social class, and, encouraged by Mrs. Joe and Pumblechook, he entertains fantasies of becoming a ... to Rochester and her giving birth to her own children. Moreover, she is no longer a friendless orphan. Not only does she have an immediate family in her husband and children, but she also has, in the Rivers, cousins who are more like brother and sisters to her. From being ...

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... think of. Later, in chapter four, she and Mrs. Reed have a great confrontation after Mr. Broklehurst leaves. "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; and this book about the liar, you may give it to your girl, Georgiana, for it is ... ."(pg.38) Here, she shows a sense of freedom and officially accepts her orphan hood. For all intents and purposes, Jane sort of breaks herself away from the rest of the family and her tyrannical aunt with this single statement. One of the most...

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... think of. Later, in chapter four, she and Mrs. Reed have a great confrontation after Mr. Broklehurst leaves. "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; and this book about the liar, you may give it to your girl, Georgiana, for it is ... ."(pg.38) Here, she shows a sense of freedom and officially accepts her orphan hood. For all intents and purposes, Jane sort of breaks herself away from the rest of the family and her tyrannical aunt with this single statement. One of the most...

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... , Lowood, Thornfield, Moor House and Ferndean. The book starts out it in the location of Gateshead, which is the first part of the five-act play. Jane deals with her family in Gateshead. Here she interacts with her cousins and aunt, Mrs. Reed. In Gateshead, Jane is a nave little girl with a temper, she is also physically abused there. Her ideals and ... her friend, Helen, dies. Once completing schooling in Lowood, Jane travels to Thornfield and enters into another phase of her life. She is governess in Thornfield, but she falls in love with her employer, Mr. Rochester. She and Mr. Roches...

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... as others such as Helen Burns are all females who are constrained by societal conventions, yet subvert them, and arise with great force. From Jane's early ordeals with the Reed family, it is evident that she is a fiercely passionate character, who at times struggles to deal with the oppressive patriarchal society she lives in. Jane Eyre is impulsive and outspoken, this ... sums up the typical views of 1840s England, as well as the response to the novel arguing: "women shouldn't try to redefine their roles in society." The Reed family hold precisely the same views and as punishment for d...

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... feels this way because of one man=s evil nature (Blom 87). One of her difficult choices is refusing to become Rochester=s mistress. The decision is difficult because she has no family, friends, or anybody to give their approval or disapproval. No one would be more hurt in this decision but herself. It=s because of her own self ... love that helps her refuse Rochester=s proposal (Brownstein 420). At Gateshead Hall, Jane knows for ten years how it feels to be isolated, neglected, and abused since she is an orphan. ... Jane, like Charlotte Bronte, has no family, so she keeps herself isola...

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... talked of rarely eating enough to stay energized, and how the school was poorly heated in the winter. Mr. Brocklehurst would humiliate the girls at Lowood by bringing in his family. His family was always well dressed and proper looking compared to the children at Lowood. The fairy godmother characteristic is also seen repeatedly in Jane Eyre. The 2 main characters that resemble ... announce that Jane was not a liar as Mr.. Brocklehurst had claimed. To Jane and the other children at Lowood, Miss Temple was a fairy godmother figure because she gave them the love and compassion noone else ...

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