-When Jane meets Rochester she feels blessed to have someone close to her. This is because she has never really had someone close to her in her childhood.
-This novel has a happy ending, although it started out rough.
-"Jane's childhood, her early relations with those loving or unloving to her, her position in the world and her degree of independence, her relative inexperience, her moral and religious values, her sense of belonging to a family, her relation to supportive females or female images . . . etc."
-This quote is saying that what her childhood and experiences were like, is what made Jane react how she did and behaved how she did towards the future.
Jane Eyre's Moral Choices
-This article is saying that Jane has multiple personalities.
-She is independent, she has good morals, she is emotional, intellectual, and committed.
-Jane's personality was formed by nature. Because of the things around her, she adjusted to them and that gave her her personality.
-There are times where Jane does something foolish, but this is just because it is what nature taught her to do.
-Because of her religion, it would have been best for Jane to stay away from Rochester when she left him since he was married. However, her feelings and nature kept her close to him.
Background to Jane Eyre
-Jane's characteristics are just like the author's (Charlotte Bronte).
-For example:
- Charlotte along with others in the family, were governesses. A governess is a woman trusted with the upbringing of a child. Jane was a governess as well.
- Both Charlotte and Jane went to harsh private schools when they were young.
- Both Charlotte and Jane later taught at the school they attended.
- Most of Jane's physical features were just like Charlotte's.
-Many things about the girls' background are similar, and the two are similar as well. So since they both had tough childhoods, they both grew up to be so strong and independent.
Bibliography!
Benvenuto, Richard. "The Child of Nature, the Child of Grace, and the Unresolved Conflict of Jane Eyre," ELH 39, no. 4 (December 1972): pp. 631–633. Quoted as "Jane Eyre's Moral Choices" in Harold Bloom, ed. The Brontës, Bloom's Major Novelists. Philadelphia: Chelsea House Publishing, 1999. (Updated 2007.) Bloom's Literary Reference Online. Facts On File, Inc. http://www.fofweb.com/activelink2.asp?ItemID=WE54&SID=1&iPin=BMNBron17&SingleRecord=True (accessed September 13, 2011).
Bloom, Harold, ed. "Background to Jane Eyre." Jane Eyre, Bloom's Guides. New York: Chelsea House Publishing, 2007. Bloom's Literary Reference Online. Facts on File, Inc. http://www.fofweb.com/activelink2.asp?ItemID=WE54&SID=1&iPin=BGJE003&SingleRecord=True (accessed September 13, 2011).
Maynard, John. Charlotte Brontë and Sexuality (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1984): pp. 143-144. Quoted as "Sexuality in Jane Eyre" in Harold Bloom, ed. The Brontës, Bloom's Major Novelists. Philadelphia: Chelsea House Publishing, 1999. (Updated 2007.) Bloom's Literary Reference Online. Facts On File, Inc. http://www.fofweb.com/activelink2.asp?ItemID=WE54&SID=1&iPin=BMNBron22&SingleRecord=True (accessed September 7, 2011).
