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Friday, October 25, 2013
Taylor's Essay Idea
For my Jane Eyre essay, I want to discus the idea of love versus autonomy. Jane is on a quest to find love and she searches, not just for romantic love, but also for a sense of being valued. Yet, throughout the book, Jane must learn how to gain love without sacrificing and harming herself in the process and losing the idea of equality. Her fear of losing her autonomy motivates her to refuse Rochester’s marriage proposal. Jane believes that “marrying” Rochester while he remains legally tied to Bertha would mean becoming a mistress and becoming unequal to Rochester. On the other hand, her life at Moor House tests her in the opposite manner. She enjoys her independence but she lacks emotional relationships. Although St. John proposes marriage, Jane knows their marriage would remain loveless there for she can not marry him.
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I think this idea of love versus autonomy is a good one to explore, Taylor. Certainly, Bronte seems, there in the end, to seem to want to establish Jane's independence (and Rochester's dependency?) in an effort to make her marriage to him a choice on her part, rather than a necessity. I think this is a good topic, and I look forward to seeing what you do with it!
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