The Analysis of Jane Eyre
... “the weak”, but Charlotte did not yield to the convention. She stood for female’s independence and equality. In the novel Jane’s drastic struggle to gain independence and equality finally won her an ideal life. In the first chapter, the young Jane fought with John who treated her badly and she dared to scold him .Although she was much thinner and weaker than John. She also dared to react against her rude aunt Mrs. Reed. However, it was not a simple process of rebellion. It also reflected Jane’s desire to achieve certain spiritual state. In our opinion, female’s self-fulfillment can’t be interpreted as the rebellion against male. Female must learn to find a balance with male under the premise of self-support and self-strengthening. Just like Jane, she finally obtained family and love without losing her precious independence. She fully deserved to be the representative of female’s self-fulfillment. In her search for freedom, Jane also struggles with the question of what type of freedom she wants. While Rochester initially offers Jane a chance to liberate her passions, Jane comes to realize that such freedom could also mean enslavement—by living as Rochester’s mistress, she would be sacrificing her dignity and integrity for the sake of her feelings. St. John Rivers offers Jane another kind of freedom: the freedom to act freely on her principles. He opens to Jane the possibility of exercising her talents fully by working and living with him in India. Jane eventually realizes, though, that this freedom would also constitute a form of imprisonment, because she would be forced to keep her true feelings and her true passions always in check. So she returns to Rochester to release her real passions. Remarks of Jane Eyre “I told you I am independent, sir, as well as rich: I am my own mistress.” This sentence does an excellent job of portraying the obvious feministic aspect of this novel. It shows that Jane has achieved self-hood; she doesn’t need a husband to support her. She is independent and in charge of her own life, which is essentially a rejection of the role of wife and mother that women are expected to play in the society at that time. “Nonsense again! Mary! I don’t want to marry, and never shall marry.” Traditionally, in patriarchal societies women were expected to marry, and most made it their sole desire to find a good and advantageous match. Jane’s emphatic statement that she has no desire to marry is a rejection of the traditional role for women. This is a very feminist passage in that Jane is renouncing the common role of women by proclaiming that she’ll never be a wife. This novel was written in the 19th Century. But it was influenced by the most popular styles in novel-writing in the 18th Century---Gothic and Sentimental novels. Generally speaking this novel was more of a realistic work. Jane and Rochester were two persons we could find around us. Once Charlotte said, she just wanted to create a new kind of heroine who was not neither beautiful nor noble just like herself. But she believed the heroine would arouse great interests in the readers. In Jane Eyre she breaks the traditional style of a handsome rich man and a beautiful woman felling in love. It just tells us a love story about a plain girl. Portrayed as the first independent woman in the western literature history, Jane was paid much more attent...