Lavender's AP Lit Class Blog
Friday, October 14, 2011
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.
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Keep on thinking of ideas. St. John might think that Jane is not as superior as him but Rochester did say "My wife is here because my equal is here" so that says that Rochester truly saw Jane as an equal. Even at the end of the book he still saw her as an equal
ReplyDeleteHayden,
ReplyDeleteYou've got a nicely focused approach to the novel: considering in turn each of the three proposals and what a close examination of them might reveal to Bronte's readers about her notions regarding love and marriage. The first thing you need to do, of course, is to go back and re-read each scene as closely as possible; try to account for all of the language each contains; then decide what 'thesis' you want to develop and defend through the use of this close reading of these three scenes. This should be a fun and informative) essay to write. I look forward to your first draft!