Beauty comes from the eye of the beholder, and is only true when it comes from with in.
I want to write my essay on the fact that jane as a child was portrayed as ugly, and ends up falling in love with an ugly man.
She realizes that Rochester will be the only man to ever truly love her.
I want to use examples like her cousins, who were gorgeous as children with blonde ringlets, and beautiful smiles, but when they become older, they loose their beauty and are left with sour personalities and bad outlooks on life.
I also want to retaliate it to how true love doesn't have a specific look to it. Jane and Rochester are meant to be, and neither of them are classified as beautiful. Jane also realizes that she cannot love St. John becomes he is too handsome.
Jane is a lovely person, and a beautiful person at heart, and she proves that women to need to be pretty to be successful and live life to the fullest. You will find happiness weather you are pretty or not.
Amber,
ReplyDeleteThis seems like a fruitful approach--one that argues Bronte celebrates spiritual (inner) beauty over material (external) appearance; and your idea of comparing and contrasting characters such as Blanche or Jane's cousin (or even Bertha) with Jane herself seems like a good one. What about Miss Oliver, though, and St. John (both of whom seem paragons of physical beauty? You'll want to include them in your discussion (and Rochester, toom, of course). Keep this question in mind as you read on to the end of the novel, and we'll see about narrowing your focus next week.