Two Different Topics

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I'm stuck on two different topics for the thesis of this paper. Both are very interesting but one looks at the entire book as compared to the latter which dissects one single scene in the novel. My first topic focuses on the scene that Jane first encounters Thornfield. She describes it as "heavenly" and it is beyond anything she has ever experienced. Jane comes from an extremely humble background, where her needs or interests have never been taken into account or cared of in the slightest. Her personal worth has been degraded by all her superiors, having been trapped in the dying Red Room of her uncle and forced to stand on a stool for her peers. She reaches Thornfield and it is literally beyond anything she has ever experienced. The immediate sincerity and niceness given to her by Mrs Fairfax confuses Jane and the beautiful mansion sparkles like nothing Ms Eyre has ever seen. This first scene at Thornfield shows us how bad her personal life has been up to this point and how she has never even experience the act of common courtesy towards her. She is in an entirely new world.

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How the long descriptions of the physical world surrounding Jane give us more insight into her emotions than the actual dialogue and expression of how she is feeling. The crazy unpredictable weather of the night Rochester proposed to her, or the cold, barren, snowy, desolate, dead nature around Thornfield the morning after Bertha Mason is discovered reflects Jane's emotions immediately. Bronte brilliantly allows the world around Jane to show us her feelings and thoughts. These are sometimes much more imperative than any other text in the novel.

Jane Eyre essay topic

Jane Eyre is as many people think a feminist book that shows that women are always enclosed. There is alot of evidence to support it. Jane is locked away in the Red Room, she encloses herself in the certains. She also feels an inamte to the walls of Thornfeild and Lowood in realizing the large entirety of the world. Bertha also lives in a prison like room. Yes it does show the enclosure of women but what about women and how they always de-horse men. In the book Jane de-horses Rochester once which causes him to lean on Jane. This theme isn't shown as much a the feminist idea, but is just as bad. Men all the time are stripped of what makes them a "man" and forced to lean on women. Men are stripped of their ideas and their ways of doing things. They are forced to leave their ideas when they marry a women. They have to leave their idea of wild, and carefree lifestyle for a more lay-low work life. To have a family men have to loose thier young ways which ins't fair. So while this book is showing the enclosure women are forced to deal, it is unjust that men are consantly de-horsed by women.

One of the things that seemed interesting to me throughout the book was the comparison of Jane and Bertha. At the very beginning of the book Jane is abandoned by her family, she is placed with Mrs. Reed, despite the fact that Mrs. Reed wants nothing to do with her. Jane is tortured, forced into exile and her family does everything they can to ignore her. Bertha experiences a very similar situation, her family is aware that she is insane yet they jump at the chance to trick Mr. Rochester into marrying her. She is left with a man unaware of her condition. While living with Mr. Rochester Bertha is trapped away in her room, guarded, she isn't allowed to leave her room and Mr. Rochester does everything he can to keep her existence unknown to everyone. Both Bertha and Jane have very little control of their situation, Jane is too young to take matters into her own hands and Bertha is mentally unstable. As the book develops we begin to read about scenes that mirror in both Bertha and Jane's life.

When Jane is sent to her room at Gateshead she is shut away, alone in a room surrounded with red walls. She wakes up terrified and trapped, Mrs. Reed does all she can to ignore it, immediately warning her children to stay away from Jane. When Jane moves to Thornfield a situation unsettlingly familiar occurs. Jane is in her room when she smells smoke, she walks into Mr. Rochester's room to find that he is surrounded by flames. I feel that the flames are a symbol reflecting the red walls, Bertha is expressing how she is trapped just as Jane was. In the morning Rochester acts as if nothing happened he doesn't mention Bertha to anyone and she is ignored no one other than Grace Poole and Rochester are even aware of her existence.

Although Bronte definitely forces you to see the symmetry in their living conditions she also does a very good job of separating the characters. Bronte keeps Jane simple, and plain she lacks passion and controls her temper extremely well. In the scene when we are first introduced to Bertha she is dehumanized. Charlotte Bronte describes her as a monster, a type of creature rather than an actual human. As the reader we notice that Bertha is full of passion and anger, she doesn't apperciate being locked away and kept secret. Bertha is constantly escaping from her room and wrecking havoc, Jane on the other hand didn't mind keeping a low profile. During one of Rochester's party Jane does everything she can to go unnoticed.

I think that Bronte did an amazing job developing two women in Rochester's life that were neither too similar or too different. I was interesting to experience the characters in situations close to one another and read about the different outcomes. In my essay I feel that I could elaborate on the characters Bronte describes.

Jane Eyre Final Essay

For my Jane Eyre final essay I am going to compare and contrast St. John and Mr. Rochester. I will compare and contrast their views on “religion” (seeing that Mr. Rochester doesn’t believe fully in God per say). I will look at their view on love, and recognize their different views on life. I will basically compare and contrast almost everything about the two. Mr. Rochester isn’t much of a family man because of the problems with his father and brother, but he wants to be, and this is why he takes Adele in and tries to “raise” her. St. John on the other hand is a family man. He and his sisters, Mary and Diana, are very close because their mother and father died; they only have each other.

Another aspect of the two men I will evaluate is their elements of Charlotte Bronte’s vision of the ideal man. Mr. Rochester isn’t the most handsome man, but he has inner qualities that help him be the ideal man. St. John on the other hand is quite good looking but he devotes himself so much to God that he loses the ability to capture the moments of being an ideal man.

Possible Jane Eyre Essay

Charlotte Bronte frequently referred to the moon and the sun in representation of female and male characters. By using these solar references, Bronte made the argument that in order to have an ideal relationship, it needs to be based on equality. The most prominent representation of this notion was when Bronte made references to the sun and the moon. For my essay, I hope to explain (in much more depth than this simple paragraph) how Bronte’s ideas about equality in relationships is fully represented in the references to the sun and moon. Whenever Bronte writes about the moon, Jane gets a new sense of courage and is able to stand up for herself. The moon represents Jane’s sense of her women-hood. The sun represents males. The sun is usually setting when it is referenced and the moon is rising. This just demonstrates that Bronte believed that a balanced relationship is one in which male and females are equal. I will demonstrate, through several references to the text, how Bronte made this argument.

Jane Eyre Essay

I have a couple different ideas for what I would like to pursue with this essay- I was thinking along the lines of how equality plays a significant role in this novel and Jane's character in particular, this would relate back to Charlotte Bronte idealism of true love.

My other idea was how Jane's character is portrayed differently by each character she encounters. Charlotte Bronte's motive was to show how each character's perception brings out Jane's character in a different light. For example in the beginning she was extremely plain and Mrs. Reed and her cousins forced her to always restrain her from revealing her true passion, also bringing out a negative light hovering over Jane's character. However as the novel progresses and she comes across more passionate characters, such as Rochester, St. John, Diana and Mary she is able to connect with them and share the beauty of passion.

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In my paper I wish to express the theme of lonliness that Charlotte Bronte has expertly woven into her novel Jane Eyre. I also wish to express the reason for why she might have chosen such a sad theme in what is made out to be a romantic novel. One reason I believe she chose to incorperate this idea is because it is so relatable to all humans, no matter what gender, race, or class. Right from the begining of the novel as we are diving into those first few pages we see this theme as Jane cuts herself off from the world in which she lives. as we continue on we see this retreat into herself and escape from society continue. Sometimes it is simply shone through a want for affection, such as in her relationship with Helen and how persistant she is to become her friend even though their connection was not entirely instant. Other times it is shown through images of Jane quite litterally closing herself away and escaping into herself.

Jane Eyre Essay

Charlotte Bronte's novel Jane Eyre was basically a biography of Jane Eyre's life. There were many things in the novel that took us by suprise, we were never inside anyone's head except for Jane's. There is a chance that if we were ever in someone else's head, that not as many things would have come as a suprise to us. This was a good idea on Charlotte Bronte's part because the book would not have been as intresting if we weren't suprised as much as we were.

If we could get inside Rochester's head, we would have known ahead of time that it wasn't Grace Poole who set the bed on fire, and we would have known about his wife that he had been hidding for years. We also would have known who Richard Mason really was. The gypsy wouldn't have been so mysterious because we would know that it was really Rochester.

All in all, Charlotte Bronte did a great job at putting together this novel because she put together so many suprises by only being in Jane Eyre's head and never in the other main characters.

Jane Eyre Essay Topic

For my essay I am going to write about the similarities and differences between Rochester and St. John. The two most prominent male figures in this book that both have feelings for Jane. The two men have their many differences such as religion, social standings and morals. Yet if you look deeper there are still similarities. Rochester is a more selfish man who wants a skip out on his wife and move to Italy. St. John also wants Jane for his own, but wants to do it in a more constructing less sleazy way. I want to go through the book and depict every scene that Rochester and St. John do things completely opposite and when they don't differ much at all.

The only way they belong.

Rochester and Jane Eyre belong together. I plan on writting my paper on how the fire, Bertha sets, is the only way the couple can be together.
The fire happens to be very convinient for both of their situations. In Rochester's case he knows the only way he will be able to marry Jane is if Bertha is out of the picture. This fire eliminates her from the picture, without him having to do much. Of course it is sad but in the long run he sees this as a positive event. Bertha had been much of a burden placed upon him. He never was truely in love with her, just needed this marrige for her wealth. His parents set this up for the benifit of him and his familly. When he finally figured out that she was clinically insane, he couldn't just ditch her because a.) he's too nice of a person and b.) he'd lose all of his wealth.

final Jane Eyre topic.

This book was quite good, all the same I am happy to move onto the next novel. I found the three proposals in the book to be very interesting and different. the first one, Rochester was acting superior to cover up his cowardliness. he was toying with Jane, teasing her, breaking her heart just to protect himself. later in the book its reversed and Rochester is the victim of the game and Jane holds his pride which is humbled by his wounds in her hands. When St. Jon more or less tells Jane to marry him (he is standing up while she is sitting down showing his feeling of superiority that is slightly humbled when she says no) it seems for a second time that they treat her unjustly perceive Jane as a emotionless creature that can be played and forced into doing something.

Jane + Rochester = Meant to Be

I've decide that for the Jane Eyre essay, I'm going to cover the topic of how Jane and Rochester were meant for each other. I want to show how throughout the book it seems as if every force in nature is trying to separate them.

Jane is afraid to love and open herself to a man. Roch has been heart broken in the past and he's afraid to make the next move. It seems as if they'll never get together even though we all want them to.

When Roch finally declares his love and proposes to Jane, the chesnut tree where he proposed to her is struck in half. This makes it seem that if Jane and Roch ever get married, their love for each other will be broken or lost. 

Then, it turns out he already has a wife, making it impossible for Jane to be with him. Even the chestnut tree breaks, symbolizing what would happen if they married.

Jane runs away and finds another man who wants to marry her but for all the wrong reasons. While Roch has been burnt in a fire at his house.

But my favorite part that I'll be sure to use will be in the ending where Jane compares Roch with the chestnut tree. We all thought it was a symbol of them breaking apart. But when Jane sees it again, she notices how it's still together "whole" and new things are growing around it. She says Roch is still like that and the chestnut tree symbolizes how they were always supposed to be together.

Jane Eyre Final Essay Thesis

Jane: A self contradiction

Jane's character is famous for her rebellion against the dependent female stereotype during her time period. She values self-sufficiency and independence above romanticism and knows what her priorities are. She in no way resembles the typical love story heroine. Her often cold assertion puts her in striking contrast to other women who thirst for a life of adoration and unity with their man. It is because of all this that Jane has established herself as the character FOIL to all other female heroines, a revolution in herself.
Yet I personally find that in many aspects of Jane's life, particularly her relationship to Rochester, she contradicts her persona as a society-defying female. For example, when she refuses Rochester for the first time, it is because she will not be his equal if he is already married to another woman. Being his mistress would make her feel personall subordinate to him. They are, however, emotional and intellectual equals. They could understand each other and converse and feel mutually engaged. Society is the only thing that turns their relationship into an inequality. Because in societies eyes the terms of their union would be frowned upon.
Jane is fixated on this inequality and uses it to justify her painful abandonnement and seperation from Rochester. I find this hypocritical and condradicting. Jane is supposed to be the embodiment of societal rebellion. She defies all of its stereotypes. Yet she can't possibly find it in her to ignore society's dissaproval when it comes to her relationship with Rochester. She becomes society's victim, as she lets it dissolve her happiness and corrupt her love.

Jane Eyre Essay Thesis

The novel contains many female characters and their role or portrayal in society according to Bronte. The characters range from school teachers to a rebellious young girl to a crazy mentally psycotic hidden wife. These aren't however the only characters in the novel that are portrayed in a feminist wayor in a non feminist way. Jane is a very passionate person, yet throughout the years she becomes more subtle than she was when she was a child.
At Thornfield a hidden insane wife is revealed to Jane after a proposal from the husband of the hidden wife, Bertha. Although conisdered a beast and is described as inhuman, Bertha and Jane are similar. Bertha is the overpassionate Jane would have become if she did not control it throughout the years, but why did Jane not turn out to be like Bertha? What controlled Jane and how did it change her to become the Jane she was in the end of the novel?
Not only does Jane not become Bertha but she changes herself into an older Jane and a slightly different Jane, but she travels through many experiences in her life that create the Jane she is at the end of the novel. There are many different crucial scenes in the novel that shape Jane's life the way it was.
Jane seems to get herself into firey situations in the novel, which expresses her passion and when she is being a passionate woman. There are also times when there are icy siuations that bring about Jane's passion.
Jane is finding herself through the novel, or is it that she has found who she is she just needs contributions to mold who she should become?

Ok, Here we go.

The simplictity and plainness of Jane Eyre through out the book also present Jane's wanting and willingness to find passion. She has burning desire for it. In the novel Jane's most passionate scenes always seem to be when fire is present.
-Red Room
-the absence of fire in Lowewood
-saving Rochesters life
-Bertha
-Rochesters injuries
-etc
Jane constantly has a passion and a want for Rochester from the moment they get to know each other. It is the perfect amount of passion, but when the wedding is canceled and she finds out about Bertha she is overwhelmed she runs away but continues to pray for Rochester and wants a passionate relationship with him, but being away from Thornfield it is hard to keep her burning passion until she finally hears his voice from a distance and is compelled to leave St John and go to Thornfield, her burning desire and passion for love leads her through out the book and on to different pathways.

Jane Eyre Essay Topic

The essay of my topic is for Charlotte Bronte what constitutes a ideal relationship. My thesis would therefore be, in an ideal relationship both sides most be equal. Along with talking about the importance of equality and my agreement with Bronte. I would talk about how Rochester reached equality with Jane. For example how in the beginning Rochester was injured and had to lean on Jane. Then again in the middle of the book, Jane saved him from the fire that Bertha set and once more she helped him at the end of the book when Bertha set the entire house on fire and Rochester was blinded and lost his arm. He had to lean on her when he was blind and glimpy. I would talk about how this had to happen in order for him to be an equal with Jane. Jane so strongly wanted equality with Rochester, that these instances of his weaknesses helped to make him less of the leader.

Keith Essay Topic

Man oh man...

The time is upon us people.

Its like the moment in fifth grade when you ask a girl on your first date, you're focused, ready to give it your all, butterflies are pitilessly fluttering throughout your core, and you have no way of knowing how things will unfold. But what you do know, is you've got a job to do.


So having finished the book, as I assume most everyone is the same, the essay inspirations are countless! I'm struggling with narrowing down exactly what I'd like to write about, as well as if I can have the topic take up three pages. The topic is just out of reach. My brain is saying "come! come to me you perfectly formulated idea!" and, like an intolerable child, the essay topic responds with a "not yet! hehehe, buy me candy and a lollipod, feed me first, and then i'll come to you." BRAT! But I think i've got it down.

Once the excess dirt is scraped away, like a diamond, the prize is right there in my palm. And my diamond...my baby...my mistress...is an essay topic based upon the first scene of Jane's arrival at Thornfield. A place she described as "heavenly". Not like anything she has ever experienced. She's spent her whole existence under cruelty, un-empathetical people, and humiliation. Her superiors have made sure she feels no happiness and has no fun in the process of her existence. Up until this point Jane has no idea what "being nice" is all about, or the inherent quality of common courtesy. Now she is in a place where she is confused by the sincere niceness she is greeted with by Mrs. Fairfax. Jane asks herself why someone would be so nice at first. She is about to experience a whole world of new circumstances and this scene when Jane is in Thornfield for the first time is literally a new world for Ms. Jane Eyre.

Paper Topic- The Ideal Woman

Piquant, intelligent, and independent, Jane Eyre seems to be Charlotte Bronte’s depiction of the ideal woman. This is what I wish (and have wished ever since Rochester’s and Jane’s first encounter) to write about. In the introduction, Bronte discusses how conventionality is not morality. At first I thought that this must be in reference to some religious point of view. However, I then gained a new view that it must be about Bronte’s disdain for societal norms, especially in regards to women. She gives us a sharp contrast between two types of women: the stereotype, and what we should be. Mrs. Fairfax, Blanche Ingram, and Mrs. Reed are all presented in a negative light as weak, shallow and submissive (the stereotype). In contrast Jane, Miss Temple, and Diana are all presented as strong, and admirable. Clearly Bronte wished to present these women as an example of women’s potential and their more appropriate role in society.

While talking about this subject there are a number of points I will touch on, and they will all be a form of character analysis. I will talk about how, though she is beautiful, Blanche is shallow and base. I will talk about Diana’s strength, Mrs. Fairfax's unintelligence and submission, and all of the others’ attributes and flaws. I will then delve into the relationships these women have with men throughout the novel. This point is particularly important because it gives a reference point for the women’s behavior. And in addition, it is also the origin of women’s inequality and therefore is the solution and so the ideal women’s relationships in comparison with the others are in sharp relief.

This is just a short summary of where I wish to go with this paper. I will include several details about behaviors and interactions to show Charlotte Bronte’s intentions. Ultimately though I think the differences in the two types of women are most evident in their resulting happiness and that will be my main point of reference.

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Passion

The flame of passion is ever present through out the novel. It comes in the form of many different objects and people. In this book Jane is known for being passionate and that is one of her great qualities. But this book is a cautionary tale of moderation.

Jane has much passion but she cannot let it consume her. Later in the book we find Bertha who is the being of passion and the foreshadowing of the destruction that too much passion can bring about. Fire which represents passion in the book can give life or take it away. Bertha's passion brought about the destruction of Thornfield and the crippling of Rochester who tried to contain her ravenous flame for years. on the other hand we have Blanche who is the absence of passion.She wishes to become Rochester's wife and only that. She i believe is the character foil to Bertha. While Bertha is passionate, wild, and mad, Blanche is sophisticated, subdued, and is without passion. Blanche is a typical woman in this time of England. She does what is expected of her and knows her place in society, and Bertha is running in circles growling in the attic. Both of these women cause incredible destruction. Though Bertha causes real destruction of Thornfield, they both wreak havoc on Rochester's heart. Bertha went mad and burned Rochester emotionally. Blanche on the other hand would not burn him, but she would not be able to kindle his love for she has nothing to warm him with.

And then we have Jane who is the one to find balance in passion. She discovers moderation in passion which is what Rochester needs. He needs passion to fill his life but not destroy it. That is why Jane is the perfect one for him and that's why he chooses her. Jane through her troubled past learned how to use her passion in a way that brings life, not death to Rochester's love.

The Limited First Person Perspective

The topic i would want to talk about in Jane Eyre is the limited first person perspective. What i mean by this is that we only see things out of Jane's perspective. What im trying to figure out is if its for the better good of the novel. i could argue that it is good that its only from Jane's perspective because most of the mystery and excitement comes from Jane trying to figure out things like Bertha and Grace Poole, going in the red room, the relationship between Jane and Rochester, etc. Then again i could argue that Jane's limited perspective is boring and could have been more exciting if there was a third person perspective because you could see what the other characters were thinking and their opinions on what's happening. Jane's perspective was a little bit too plain for me at times and maybe if we got different characters perspective then it would have been a more interesting read. At the moment im leaning over to the limited first person perspective is a bad thing, but im still deciding what would be a better argument.

Jane Eyre Essay

Although there are hundreds of topics i could decipher for Jane Eyre, I've come to realize that what truly interests me at the moment is the bigger meaning of the content. I'm interested in writing about the relationship between the literal meaning of the text and what Charlotte Bronte really wanted the reader to perceive. For example, at the end of chapter 23 we as readers acknowledge that the horse-chestnut at the bottom of the orchard has been struck by lightning and split in half. This acknowledgment is the literal meaning of what occurred in the text but if we take a closer look at the bigger idea, we infer that Bronte is perhaps foreshadowing that Jane and Rochester will split up since the tree where the proposal was made was split in half. I will find more examples of the bigger meaning obviously but for now that is one of my main ideas. This topic should be interesting since thinking beyond the literal meaning and finding connections can often be difficult as well as deceiving due to the wide variety of ideas. Good thing we talked about it in class.

Both foils and counterparts: Jane and Bertha.

charolette bronte's depiction of the relationship between jane and bertha is in a gray area of both similarities and differences. bronte relates the two to Rochester immediately by the bonds they equally share with him. after the devastating wedding, bronte then displays the two ladies as both foils and counterparts. what were brontes motives in her comparison between bertha and jane? are they two examples for the ever occuring theme of passion, bertha being excessively passionate and jane balancing her passion. bertha died from her instanity, displaying her overflow of passion. Jane was nearly persuaded to india by the tantalizing effects of St John, how he surpressed her passion and nearly extiguished her inner flame. yet bronte relates the mistresses by both displaying over passion, with their wild cries(unknown cackles of bertha and the red room horror cry of jane). also from their absence from rochester they fluctuate in levels of passion. bertha excessively to her dramatic state of mind and then death. jane with her subdued passion of St John and need to reignite it with Rochester. both bertha and jane were talked as savage, jane my mrs reed and bertha, well by any stable minded human being. regardless, they both diminished into states that were frowned upon. of all the relations between jane and bertha, the most important is their shared quality of being restrained, of being contained. bertha is locked in a hidden room and rarely sneaks the key from grace poles grasp; jane is continuously locked up behind curtains and in the red room and under bed coverings. this theme shows us bronte's stand point of how women are treated in that era. they are contained, their passion restrained, their inner flame on the verge of extinguish.
that theme of how the female characters passion is either over repressed or over zealous occurs throughout the novel and is shown as a topic of passion to bronte(pun intended). if this is a fair statement to assume is the argument that will be discussed throughout the essay. is bronte just in her assumption of the repression of female spirt or is she overcritical?