She says that servants are treated better than she is, and that Mrs. Reed was not keeping her promise to her deceased husband to raise Jane as her own child. Reed, unable to answer Jane's accusations, leaves the room immediately, thus allowing Jane to bask in the glory of victory for the first time in her life.
This episode sets the foundation for Jane being able to stand up for herself and not to be trampled upon by others in the future. She learns through this that inner resolve is her best weapon in life and that she must not be afraid to voice her opinion or to stand up for what she feels is right. In Lowood, a boarding school for orphans, Jane meets Helen Burns, a fellow student is to have a more lasting effect on Jane than anyone else that she will ever meet in her life.
Helen, more than anything else, instills in Jane religious faith and spirituality. Jane learns from Helen to bear the harshness and rigidness of Lowood and to accept the many injustices of life, whatever they may be, traits that Helen embodies to the full.
Helen, who is even willing to die and bear torture for her religious convictions, teaches Jane to put religion first in her life. The combination of courage to stand up for what you believe in and religious faith enables Jane to do battle against injustice in the future.
When Jane meets Edward Rochester, her employer at Thornfield whose age and status are well above Jane's own, she manages to keep her cool in the face of his surly and obnoxious questions. In fact, Jane shows confidence in front of her employer and answers his inquiries truthfully and openly, a trait which Rochester admires and eventually comes to love in Jane. At Thornfield, Jane displays strength of character by caring for Adele as a mother would, and by trying to bring Rochester to appreciate Adele, a feeling which Adele needs and wants in him, her only father figure.
Jane, in addition, comes to rescue Rochester many a time from would be death and risks her own life in doing so. These character traits, which Jane displays, draw Rochester closer to her and enable him to truth her, rely upon her, and realize that she is who he needs in his life. Jane and Rochester's plans to marry could bring Jane no greater happiness, until those plans are shattered before her eyes. When Rochester admits that he is already married, yet pleads with Jane to remain at Thornfield and be his mistress, Jane boldly and courageously refuses to give in.
Though her love for Rochester is deep and unswerving, her moral convictions are what ultimately guide her life and are what enable her to leave her life and love behind for an uncertain future.
She has the strength to judge what is ethically and morally right, stand up to her convictions, and act on her judgement. She cannot degrade herself by being a married man's mistress, though she is very tempted to do so, and continually relies on faith to guide her decisions.
When Jane is ultimately reunited with Rochester, she tells him of the Rivers family and, most notably, about St. John Rivers whom she refused to marry because of his lack of love or appreciation of her. Jane then marries Rochester realizing that he is who she wants.
Jane has done a tremendous amount of soul searching while away from Thornfield and she now feels able to make the lifelong commitment of marriage as she has gained the moral, religious, and personal capabilities to differentiate between good and bad, right and wrong, in her many experiences throughout her life.
Jane Eyre remains true to her own personal code of conduct throughout the novel. Her strength and courage can be an inspiration to readers no matter what the age, gender, or generation in which they live.
The morals to which Jane adheres to are what make Jane Eyre a timeless classic to be enjoyed and learned by every individual. It's like my whole life never happened When I'm with you, as if I've never had a thought; I know this dream It might be crazy, But it's the only one I've got When circumstances conspire to caringly nourish that seed in the manner most appropriate to its true nature-- circumstances which, sadly, are as rare as they are fortunate--the germ of our original selves is likely to flourish.
When, however, this tender seed receives attention which is insufficient or antithetical to its essential inclination, growth is inevitably blighted in some way. Weaker or more sensitive seedlings may wither outright; others will be irreparably stunted.
Stronger plants may yet grow to imposing heights, but they will be bent and twisted at the places where their needs were unmet, and may well feel eternally compelled to somehow loosen the knot of those deforming deprivations, so as to come closer to their originally intended shapes: Jane Eyre and Rochester are two such plants; driven by an indomitable will to find and follow their essential selves, they discover in each other a vital key to the realization of that end.
As every conscientious parent knows, a child needs both roots--love and security--and wings--belief in, and encouragement of, his autonomy--in order to mature. While gifted with the latter--the drive for self-realization previously mentioned--Jane and Rochester have been severely deprived of the foundation of the former.
They are both outsiders. The identities they have succeeded in forging for themselves thus have a quality of rare integrity, for they primarily have come from within, not from the outer prompting to please and emulate others. At the same time, these characters lack the sense of security and connectedness which is the vital prop of such gifts. When the two meet, that "mysterious chemistry [which] usually links partners who are virtually psychological twins" Napier and Whitaker, The Family Crucible , p.
The bond forged between them serves as a dual link for both--back to the sense of belonging which both lacked In their most impressionable years, and forward to the recognition and realization of their individual true selves. That one must frequently go back in order to move ahead is a principle well known in both religion and psychology. In Judaism, the word teshavah means both repentance and return. Rabbi Nachman of Breslov, an early nineteenth century sage, stresses the theme of "descents" and "ascents": Each time one wishes to rise to a new stage of spiritual development, one is generally forced to descend first, in order to reclaim the "lost sparks" of potential holiness buried in the "excrement" of prior confusion and misdeeds Nachman of Breslov, M'Shivath Hefesh.
The radical psychotherapist R. Laing calls this process "regression" and "progression": If the schizophrenic wishes to spend hours staring at a blank wall, well, then he should be encouraged to do so; he will eventually break through; after all, when Zen monks do it it's called the search for enlightenment R.
D, Laing, The Voice of Experience. In part, this may be due to the early spiritual guidance of the saintly Helen Burns. We see evidence of Jane's increased maturity and compassion in the objective, forgiving way she re-encounters, and masters, those demons of her childhood, the Reeds. Jane has apparently come far in healing the wounds of her old bitterness and anger; this letting go of old grievances is essential if she is to move on and grow.
Other events and characters in this novel similarly test Jane's ability to confront situations reminiscent of childhood conflicts, where she must weather a threatened loss of self in order to emerge with that self chastened, strengthened and renewed. During the three days she spends homeless and hungry after fleeing from Rochester, she re-experiences the utter aloneness and rootlessness of her early years yet retains her faith in G-d's will; rescued by the Rivers family, she is rewarded by Providence with the elevating discovery of a true kinship--in blood as well as spirit such as she has always longed for but never before known.
Her relationships with both Rochester and St. John Rivers involve Jane in the regression of sexual self- surrender, threatening the immersion of her hard-won identity in theirs. Her refusal to be Rochester's pseudo-wife constitutes Jane's triumph in her most crucial spiritual test, as she makes the wrenching choice between her idolatrous love for him and her belief in G-d. Though her bond with Rochester provides her hardest trial, it also gives her the clarity and strength to successfully avoid what would have been another, probably fatal, snare to her self development--the marriage proposal of St.
John Rivers. John, too, is stamped with an inviolate integrity of self, but he sees Jane solely as an instrument for his own ends and acknowledges only those parts of her nature which dovetail with his own designs. It is because she has experienced Rochester's sincere, if flawed, love and appreciation, that Jane is able to recognize the inadequacy and destructiveness of this proffered bond.
Rochester, while yearning for what is good, honest and pure, and attracted to those redemptive qualities in Jane, must overcome the hubris and narcissistic self-indulgence which has goaded him into self-idolatry, placing the gratification of his own desires above the will of G-d.
In his regressive flirtation with Blanche Ingram, reminiscent of his initial attraction to Bertha and his various mistresses, he re-confirms his preference for inner, rather than outer, beauty in a mate. His desertion by Jane and the subsequent loss of his arm and eyesight return Rochester to a state of alienation and despair from which only humility and belief in G-d can redeem him. In the end, by placing G-d first in their lives and accepting His chastisement, both Jane and Rochester are rewarded by reunion with one another, their separate salvations of self crowned by the redemption of re- unification on a higher level.
The sense of acceptance and belonging which they experience with one another, and the recognition each feels for long-denied facets of the other's true nature--Rochester for Jane's passion, Jane for Rochester's yearning for honesty and goodness--has helped both to re-connect with their original essential selves.
Because the love between Jane and Rochester--despite its darker, inevitable element of power struggle--is rooted in this recognition of, and respect for, each other's true selves. I found the final felicitous resolution of their relationship to be satisfying and acceptable, and was even able to wink and overlook the improbable and melodramatic route that resolution took though I do wish it could have been reached without the taint of Rochester's disempowerment.
There is something moving and beautiful about these two people, indefatigably reaching for love: like two trees in a dense, dark forest, bending, twisting and inter-twining to reach an aperture of warm, bright sunlight, more beautiful to my mind than their unblemished brothers.
You are killing me now. Both Jane and Hedda exist within the same social contexts. They are women of the middle class in European cultures.
The fact Jane is penniless through much of the novel does not exclude her from the middle class. Jane and Hedda's experiences, education and values all belong to the middle class. Therefore it should be no surprise their words echo. In detail and outcome their stories are different. However, it is the constraints of the same social conventions which drive their different destinies.
It is the same confusion of social convention with morality and spirituality that pains both their existences. Confusing social convention with legal, moral, and religious codes of conduct is a phenomena not confined to the 19th century. It is this same confusion that created Jim Crow Laws, anti-gay legislation and fuels the fire of the abortion rights debate.
Social conventions of the 's did not allow women of the middle class to live independently. With few exceptions women moved from father's household to husband's household. It was the father's prerogative to arrange a suitable marriage.
In truth there might be a carefully selected few to choose from, but any unauthorized selection would hold severe consequences for both men and women. Jane Eyre's mother was disowned because she chose to marry an "unapproved" man. Jane would suffer because of this transgression, which occurred before she was even born. After being orphaned, Jane lives with her Aunt Reed. She is continually reminded she is a dependent and is unloved by her relations. Although hurtful, these wounds are not mortal.
Jane survives life with her Aunt Reed with self-esteem intact, confident her ill treatment was undeserved. From this experience Jane learns a lack social status and funds can make you unlovable. Banished to Lowood, a charity school, Jane befriends Helen Burns. Pious and self- disciplined, Helen becomes Jane's spiritual mentor. Helen's fundamentalist faith answers every question if not every prayer.
From Helen, Jane learns not think too much of human love. Helen also advises "If all the world hated you, and believed you wicked, while your own conscience approved you, and absolved you from guilt, you would not be without friends" Jane Eyre p.
At Lowood Jane also learns she can be judged by her own merits. Brocklehurst, the administrator, announced to the entire school that by her Aunt Reed's assessment, Jane is a liar. They declare Jane, by the conduct they have observed, to be of good character. It is this selfishness that makes it hard for the reader to be empathetic towards her later in the play, as it is evident in this scene that her hardships were brought on by herself.
He was driven mad when his father's ghost appeared to him and revealed that Claudius was responsible for the death of Old Hamlet. Hamlet even termed the marriage as incest. Hamlet's fury is displayed when he throws his mother on the bed and says, "Frailty, thy name is woman" Act.
The queen cannot handle and truth and tells Hamlet to stop speaking. Hamlet, not knowing that the sword is poisoned, takes the sword and cuts Laertes while the queen drinks a toast to Hamlet not knowing that the king has poisoned that goblet because it was meant for Hamlet. Queen Gertrude and Laertes die shortly after. Essentially, the reason no one rebelled against the wrongful accusations of Abigail was they were afraid.
If they tried helping the innocent they 'd either make the situation worse or get themselves in trouble. For example Giles Cory tried speaking out about his wife and it took a turn for the worse. Due to his involvement with trying to save her he was also accused and killed. In this play both Macbeth and Lady Macbeth die because of their lack of temperance, remorse, and understanding, and their greed. Lady Macbeth proves her lack of temperance by coercing Macbeth into killing Duncan.
Open Document. Or he may feel that he needs her on his side if he is to achieve justice. While all of these are possibilities, what Hamlet actually does is urge his mother to repent choosing Claudius over his own father. Sigmund Freud wrote that Hamlet harbors an unconscious desire to sexually enjoy his mother. Whether or not Freud was right about this is as difficult to prove as any of the problems that Hamlet worries about, but his argument in regard to Hamlet is quite remarkable.
He says that while Oedipus actually enacts this fantasy, Hamlet only betrays the unconscious desire to do so. Hamlet is thus a quintessentially modern person, because he has repressed desires. As the scene progresses, Gertrude goes through several states of feeling: she is haughty and accusatory at the beginning, then afraid that Hamlet will hurt her, shocked and upset when Hamlet kills Polonius, overwhelmed by fear and panic as Hamlet accosts her, and disbelieving when Hamlet sees the ghost.
Finally, she is contrite toward her son and apparently willing to take his part and help him. It is as if Hamlet is so distrustful of the possibility of acting rationally that he believes his revenge is more likely to come about as an accident than as a premeditated act. Ace your assignments with our guide to Hamlet! A Midsummer Night's Dream Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Thou wretched, rash, intruding fool, farewell! When Hamlet reaches his mother, the Queen, in her chambers, he mistakes a figure behind arras to be the King, and lunges his sword at him in hopes of revenge, only to find out that he has slain Polonius.
Hamlet tells Horatio that he is dying and exchanges a last forgiveness with Laertes, who dies after absolving Hamlet. Hamlet tells Horatio again that he is dying, and urges his friend not to commit suicide in light of all the tragedies, but instead to stay alive and tell his story. Begin typing your search term above and press enter to search. Press ESC to cancel. Term Paper. Ben Davis February 16,
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