This little word is crucial to life. Without balance everything would be skewed and extremes would control the world. One balance that must be kept is the balance between principle and passion. Life can only have a happy ending when this balance is in order. The novel Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte shows emphasizes the importance of this balance. It illustrates the choices that are brought up and what happens when the balance is disrupted. .
First off we must have an idea of what principle and passion are. Principle is the reason and restraint in one's character. One may show principle when one restrains from an indulgence. Passion is desire, unrestraint, and going after one's heart. Passion is shown when one chases love without thinking of the consequences.
A disruption of balance may seem wonderful and welcome at first, but in the end and outburst from either side will end in unhappiness. Jane proves this point when she lets passion overcome her in Mrs. Reed's presence. She says that "it seemed as if [her] tongue pronounced words without [her] will consenting to their utterance- (60). Passion took her over and she sprayed her hate unto Mrs. Reed without thinking of the consequences. After her outburst she says that she has "only bad feelings surging in [her] breast- (60). Later she says that she "will never call [Mrs. Reed] aunt again- (68) and she will never visit her when she's older. Not only does she visit Mrs. Reed but she nonetheless calls her aunt showing that she didn't mean what she said in her heat of passion. As she sits by her aunt's side in her later years she thinks, "I had once vowed that I would never call her aunt again: I thought it no sin to forget and break that vow- (259). Jane realizes the errors in her brash decisions as a child.
Another example of extreme passion and principle lies in St. John Rivers and John Reed. St. John is the epitome of principle while John is the boy who dies from indulgence.
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