Jane Eyre Themes
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- Created on: 21-04-18 08:48
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- Themes in Jane Eyre
- Love
- Jane is deprived of familial love
- Jane and Rochester meet in the most unstereotypical, unromantic meeting imaginable
- St John wants to marry Jane, even though they both know that they don't love eachother
- Gender
- Jane does not agree that the fact that she is a woman should hold her back in any way
- She could be considered an early feminist
- Rochester is a typical Byronic hero
- Jane needs to be Rochester's equal
- When she is not completely equal, their relationship fails
- Jane does not agree that the fact that she is a woman should hold her back in any way
- Gothic and Supernatural
- Bertha is kept in the attic, and causes many things to happen that are unexplained
- The fire in Rochester's room
- Jane's veil that is torn
- The incident with Mr Mason in the middle of the night
- The laugh that can be heard throughout Thornfield
- Many things happen at night or with a full moon
- Jane and Rochester's proposal
- Mr Mason is attacked
- Bertha is kept in the attic, and causes many things to happen that are unexplained
- Family
- Jane is an orphan, so doesn't know what close family is
- She is taken in by her aunt and uncle, but her uncle dies, and Jane is treated extremely badly by her aunt
- Mrs Reed hides the fact that Jane has another uncle
- When Jane discovers this, she inherits his fortune, which makes her Rochester's equal, and gives her financial independence.
- She also discovers that the Rivers' are her biological cousins, which means that Jane has real family that love her
- She shares her inheritance with them
- When Jane discovers this, she inherits his fortune, which makes her Rochester's equal, and gives her financial independence.
- She also discovers that the Rivers' are her biological cousins, which means that Jane has real family that love her
- She shares her inheritance with them
- She shares her inheritance with them
- She also discovers that the Rivers' are her biological cousins, which means that Jane has real family that love her
- When Jane discovers this, she inherits his fortune, which makes her Rochester's equal, and gives her financial independence.
- She shares her inheritance with them
- She also discovers that the Rivers' are her biological cousins, which means that Jane has real family that love her
- When Jane discovers this, she inherits his fortune, which makes her Rochester's equal, and gives her financial independence.
- Adele does not have a mother, so Jane becomes her motherly figure, as Jane does not want Adele to be deprived of what she was.
- At Lowood, she makes familial bonds
- Helen Burns becomes like a sister
- Miss Temple is a motherly figure
- Class
- Jane is made to feel lesser as she is of a lower social class than Rochester
- Blanche Ingram is a foil for Jane, and she is of a higher class
- This makes Jane feel bad about herself "Governess, disconnected, poor and plain"
- When Jane is at Gateshead, she is told that she is "less than a servant"
- Love
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