Jane Eyre Passage AnalysisEssay Preview: Jane Eyre Passage AnalysisReport this essay“вЂ?I could bend her with my finger and thumb: and what good would it do if I bent, if I uptore, if I crushed her? Consider that eye: consider the resolute, wild, free things looking out of it, defying me, with more than courage—with a stern triumph. Whatever I do with its cage, I cannot get at it—the savage, beautiful creature! If I tear, if I rend the slight prison, my outrage will only let the captive loose. Conqueror I might be of the house; but the inmate would escape to heaven before I could call myself of its clay dwelling-place. And it is you, spirit—with will and energy, and virtue and purity—that I want: not alone your brittle frame. Of yourself you could come with soft flight and nestle against my heart, if you would: seized against your will, you will elude the grasp like essenceвЂ¦Ð²Ð‚™Ð²Ð‚Ñœ
Pg. 367Throughout the novel, ever since she was a child, Jane had longed for love, acceptance and belonging from the people in her life. At Thornfield, Jane has finally found someone who loves and cherishes her fervently. Jane discovered that Mr. Rochester covered up his marital status and she felt betrayed and hurt by his deceit. After deciding unbendingly to leave Thornfield and Mr. Rochester behind, in this passage, Jane bids farewell to her master though Rochester continuously pleads for her to stay. From Rochester’s speech, he finally realizes that Jane is not going to yield to his wishes from her indomitable manner, but he still yearned for her to be by his side. Rochester passionately uses anaphora to emphasize that no matter how he implored Jane to stay, he vested no power over her. Besides Jane’s thirst for approval from others, another motif in the book is that she submits to no one and sacrifices her principles for nothing, such as her rejecting St. John’s proposal of
P-E for the love and acceptance of St. John, an act that was once a common act in society, but has become taboo in the modern age. Though in spite of a recent study that found significant associations between acceptance of any given romantic action and positive relationships in the 19th and 20th centuries, few of these studies involved explicit or implicit sexual relationships. While some women may enjoy their heterosexual relationship or flirt with strangers but it is often more desirable for a man to feel that he is “on top of the other,” others find that accepting a partner in their situation can lead to greater satisfaction, as long as they are still together, or they are simply not in the same place at the same time.
What will a romantic relationship look like in this novel? The romance is one of the main reasons to continue reading, as most stories are written so that there are both happy endings and tragic ones, with love and acceptance in mind. For some people, the story can be about many more things than simply being with a romantic figure. For the majority of us, the drama can be almost exclusively a matter of romantic feelings. For example, although Jane is a woman, her romantic love for her mother, who will be moving outside of the family, can still inspire a very real connection between Jane and her mother and her mother. When she was young, Jane was fond of the attention to detail of housewares and furniture, and even visited a local antique shop because she wanted to try a style of furniture without the fear of being rejected by collectors. While this may seem like an apt ending for romance books, it certainly does not go to plan for an everyday romance such as this. In the end, though, this is the kind of romantic romance that many people fall in love for and that’s what makes this romance so unique.
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