Charlotte Eyre To Explore Her Ideas Essay Example

happy time, where nothing will impede the marriage and where 'Love is blind', Jane immediately begins to analyse every possible problem that may occur. This may be because of the social position she has been in all her life.

She has always been in the seat of a spectator, observing all the things that could potentially go wrong in a marriage, and thus leading her to be too aware of her future. Also, with the fact that she has been so damaged and become so delicate through her childhood abuse, she now seems 'hard' and will not let herself free to simply enjoy the romance. Mr Rochester and Jane continue in conversation and Jane begins to share and speak her true feelings. We see this idea of fear for the future emphasised when Jane starts talking about how Mr Rochester might change from how he is now, later becoming less interested in her: but when you get well used to me, you will..

.. like me, I say, not love me' The use of the word 'when' implies that Jane feels this future is inevitable.I feel she has spent so many years observing bad marriages, where the wives are constantly rushing around trying to please their bitter and ungrateful masters, she realises she does not want to fall into this familiar trap. Earlier in the conversation, Mr Rochester expresses his wishes to shower Jane with expensive gifts.

This sort of scene is typical of the romantic genre where the hero is rich and the heroine is poor.However unlike Jane Eyre, through passionate love the woman would accepts these gifts with gratitude. Instead Jane Eyre refuses to accept

these gifts, as she feels it is a form of pretence, which she despises. She feels that, if she accepted these gifts, she would no longer be herself. She metaphorically describes her future self as being 'an ape in a harlequins jacket'.

Jane feels it would be hypocritical of her to accept these gifts, as she is not marrying Mr Rochester for his money or jewels, but simply to be with him. Later on, Jane tries to persuade Mr Rochester to take Adele with them on their journey.At first Mr Rochester says no and Jane thinks to herself 'I was about mechanically to obey him, without further remonstrance'. Jane fears marriage because of the real threat of losing all control over her life. The second passage I am looking at is in the 25th chapter, on the evening prior to the wedding. We learn that 'Mr Rochester that night was absent from home, nor has he yet returned'.

Jane now begins to wander the grounds, and eventually it gets so late that Jane runs out in the rain to look for him, on waiting for what seemed a long time to Jane, Mr Rochester appears on his horse and they share yet another passionate meeting.There seem to be a lot of aspects of this passage that are typical of the romance genre, and also many relations to the previous passage that I looked at. This passage is full of passion and emotion that Jane experiences on the absence of Mr Rochester. Jane first seeks refuge in the orchard.

Jane chooses to come here in the absence of Mr Rochester because this is where every passionate

encounter between them has taken place. It is almost like this is an unreal place, compared to the Garden of Eden in previous passages, a place where there need not be any obstacles to overcome, and where they can experience a real and true love.When in the orchard, Jane is experiencing a surge of heightened emotion; this makes her 'run before the wind'. I feel this relates to the first passage where she runs through the grounds expressing her great emotion for Mr Rochester.

We know that Jane and Rochester are soon to meet again though because we see a glimpse of the 'blood red and half overcast' moon. As we can see from other passages in the book, when the moon appears, there will be a particularly passionate encounter between the two. We can see Jane becoming more and more worked up throughout this passage as she experiences this absence from Mr Rochester.On meeting Mr Rochester again, they share a very typical scene of the romance genre, where the hero arrives on his horse, and the heroine runs to meet him and they then share a passionate kiss. 'A hearty kissing I got for welcome'. The whole idea of 'absence makes the heart grow fonder' is another very typical theme related to the romance genre.

Charlotte Bronte uses this aspect of the genre to portray the true love that Jane feels. However I also feel that Charlotte Bronte is using this passage to express the dangers of love, and how very powerful it can be.In the previous passage that I looked at, Jane talked about her fears of becoming completely powerless to Mr Rochester

and obedient to his every command. In the second passage we see Mr Rochester says, in an imperative tone "Step on my boot-toe; give me both hands: mount! ", Jane says to herself 'I obeyed: joy made me agile'. The use of the word 'obeyed' relates to this idea of power and control and that even though Jane fears these things in marriage, love effectively blinds them. Charlotte Bronte is showing that love can be very powerful and almost dangerous in the way that it conquers all other emotions.

In both these passages it is obvious that Bronte is, rather than complying with it, is using the romance genre to portray many ideas about love, its effects and its inevitable links with marriage. Charlotte Bronte is breaking away from the typical romantic tradition in order to create a real and genuine love between Jane and Mr Rochester. It is not typical of the genre for the woman to have control over her husband, however Bronte is using Jane to show a resistance to these regular compliances of love relationships in the 19th century.The two passages I have written about relate to each other with great importance.

The first passage is where Jane expresses her fears for the future. She has observed the typical journey of a marriage and realises she really does not want to fall into this trap. She describes the way she does not want to end up in a relationship where she has absolutely no power, and she has to revolve around a bitter and hard master. However in the second passage, Jane finds herself 'obeying' her husband-to-be.This is because Jane's passion is

regenerated though an absence of Mr Rochester, blinding herself to the worries that she previously had. In both passages, Jane experiences a short period of time of heightened emotion.

The first, a euphoric state of happiness, generated through her passion and love for Mr Rochester after his proposal, and the second a heightened state of worry for the wellbeing of Mr Rochester during his absence. Bronte uses these emotions of love to show how they can cloud people's once rational thoughts, and can potentially be dangerous.