Jane Eyre Essays

Rhys’ character Antoinette derives from Charlotte Bronte’s powerful depiction in ‘Jane Eyre’ of Bertha, a Creole woman who is wildly insane. In ‘Wide Sargasso Sea’ Jean Rhys creates a history for Antoinette, developing reasons for the madness of the character presented in ‘Jane Eyre. ‘ The reader can go back to ‘Jane Eyre’ and sympathise […]

‘Jane Eyre’ is a novel written by Charlotte Bronte in the year 1847. The novel is about a woman, who is giving an account on her life story. The novel ‘Jane Eyre’ reflects Back to Charlotte Bronte’s life. Question: Discuss the differences between the characters, Mr Broklehurst and Miss Temple. How does Charlotte Bronte use […]

Jane Eyre is the eponymous heroine and involved narrator of this novel. She is a small, dejected girl who lives with her middle-class aunt and cousins, as her parents died when she was young. Although she may not be suffering physically from hunger or disease, she is suffering emotionally. Jane is depressed, unloved, and constantly […]

There were many factors that influenced the educational system in Victorian times. They included religious beliefs, gender, class and the industrial revolution. These are explored in Dickens’s Hard Times and Charlotte Bronte’s Jane Eyre. Dickens is particularly critical of the standards of education at the time of the Victorian period and the methods of teaching […]

Helen Burns relationship with Jane Eyre is significantly important to her. She is the first person to show her true kindness and her first real friend. When they first meet Jane is instantly drawn to Helen as a Kindred Spirit for she is engrossed in a book “I think her occupation touched a chord of […]

Based on my understanding of “Jane Eyre” by Charlotte Bronte and “Wide Sargasso Sea,” considering the social contexts in which they were written, it seems inevitable that the marriage between Bertha Mason and Edward Rochester would fail. The societal norms and expectations of the time period would not have permitted Rochester and Bertha to live […]

Secret of Thornfield Charlotte Bronte’s Jane Eyre at first gives off as a romantic novel. But there are multiple parts in the book that shows that Jane Eyre is also in the gothic/mystery genre. In Jane Eyre, after Jane entered Thornfield, there were many current of events that led me to believe that Mr. Rochester […]

The novel, Jane Eyre, describes the transformation from childhood to adulthood of an orphaned girl named Jane. Bertha Mason, is portrayed as the alter ego of the orphaned girl, Jane Eyre. This statement could be interrupted in many ways. One being-for an example- Bertha being a symbol and representation of Jane’s feeling in regard to […]

Wide Sargasso Sea and Jane Eyre intertwined In Wide Sargasso Sea, author Jean Rhys uses intertextuality to tell the story of Antoinette Mason. Intertexuality is when an author bases their book/novel off of another text. In this case, Wide Sargasso Sea is shaped from Charlotte Bronte’s Jane Eyre and it elaborates on the character of […]