Jane Eyre Research Paper

In Jane Eyre, the classic novel by Charlotte Brontë, the character St. John (pronounced Sinjin) represents the easy way out of things in life. St. John is a clergyman that takes in Jane when he finds her at his doorstep, close to death. He eventually asks her to marry him and to go to India as a missionary with him. St. John represents the easy way out of things because he is the perfect suitor for Jane. He is young, only 29 years old, while Mr. Rochester is almost old enough to be Jane’s father. Jane describes St. John as “a handsome man: tall, fair, with blue eyes, and a Grecian profile” (Brontë 454), and his manners as “polished, calm, and gentlemanlike” (Brontë 454). He is everything a girl a simple as Jane could wish for in

These lines exchanged by Jane Eyre and Mr. St John perfectly exhibit the differences in their personalities. Jane Eyre is a passionate, emotional person, while Mr. St John comes off as "cold" and un-feeling. These contrasting temperaments make for an intriguing scene when Mr. St John asks for Jane to marry and move to India with him as a missionary's wife. Jane had a strong emotional reaction to Mr. St John's proposal and St John was taken aback when she rejected him, but he did not have a particularly passionate reaction. In the days and weeks to follow, St. John was by no means friendly or warm with Jane, but he was also not outwardly rude to her. All and all, Mr. St John's disposition can be described as "cold," and Jane's emotions, that had a fire-like intensity, led her to reject to St. Johns final proposal.

In the novel, Jane grows, learns, and, eventually, falls in love with a Mr. Edward Rochester. Eventually, the couple marries; however, it most definitely wouldn’t have been possible if Jane had not returned to him. She is able to do this by gaining a gift from her relative. The most pivotal moment in Jane Eyre’s life is when she receives a large inheritance from her uncle, John Rivers. From this moment on, her social

St. John Rivers is one character who dramatically changes throughout the story. He begins as a kind man who saves Jane from death and brings her into his home. After Jane leaves Thornfield to pursue a new life, she becomes lost, and after days of searching for food and a job, she finds the Moor House in Morton. After carefully watching the people inside, a man named Rivers, who is on his way home, walks by and brings Jane in and gives her food and shelter. Jane’s first thoughts of St. John Rivers are positive, and she thinks he is a perfect person.

Jane Eyre says, “‘he forgets pitilessly, the feelings and claims and of little people, in pursuing his own large views.’” When Jane Eyre declines St. John Rivers’ marriage proposal, he does not take her feelings into consideration. St. John Rivers soly recognizes how her rejection will affect him and his mission trip to India. This shows that he is not open to the ideas and feelings of others when he has a goal set in mind for himself. St. John Rivers says, “‘Rosamond a sufferer, a labourer, a female apostle? Rosamond a missionary’s wife? No!’” St John Rivers is a priest who devotes his life to God. His devotion to God can be considered a strength and a weakness. This can be portrayed as a strength because he helps others around the world by going on missionary trips, but he also sacrifices all the pleasures and luxuries in his life. Instead of staying at Gateshead and telling Rosamond Oliver how he feels, he leaves on a missionary trip to India because he believes she is not suited to be a missionary wife. His devotion to God causes St. John Rivers to be strict and self-denying. St. John Rivers’ way of helping those who are destitute can be considered a strength of his. Before

Equally, Jane had great respect for St.John as a brother. However, when he asked her to marry him, although his only reason for this decision was he assumes that she is a suitable partner for him on his mission to India. Just when Jane was about to accept his offer, she hears Mr. Rochester call for her. She becomes delusion and runs after calling. By refusing St.John, she has overcome her reason of not marrying Mr. Rochester but she ends up following her passionate love for

Jane Eyre is a coming of age story following a young woman and her journey of self-growth. At the start of the novel Jane is living with her aunt and three cousins. They continuously abuse her, treating her like a stranger rather than a family member. At the age of ten Jane leaves her aunt's house and attends boarding school. It is at this school where she learns lessons of forgiveness and hope from a meek young woman named Helen Burns. Subsequently studying and teaching at the school for eight years Jane decides to become a governess at the mysterious Thornfield mansion. She falls in love with the owner of Thornfield and the two make plans to marry. Nonetheless on the day of there wedding Jane discovers that Mr. Rochester is already married and that he keeps his insane wife Bertha trapped away in the attic of Thornfield. Devastated by this information, Jane flees Thornfield and nearly dies from cold and starvation. Soon after she is taken in by the Rivers, two sisters and one brother. The passing of Jane's uncle reveals that she and the Rivers are cousins. It is also revealed that this uncle has left Jane all his fortune. This in turn leaves Jane extremely wealthy. Her cousin St. John Rivers ask Jane for his hand in marriage. However Jane comes to the conclusion that she still loves Mr. Rochester. After declining St. John's proposal Jane journeys back to Thornfield. When she arrives at Thornfield Jane discovers the mysterious mansion in burnt ruins. It is revealed that the

In chapter 33 of Jane Eyre Charlotte Bronte shows just how far Jane has come as a women since we first met her. Bronte shows this through Jane's reaction to finding out that her long lost uncle who recently passed on decided to leave her his fortune as an inheritance. However the way in which Jane learns of this revelation is equally intriguing. She's told about her newfound wealth by Saint John Rivers, who reveals this to Jane by retelling her own life story to her. It is of great significance that River's informs Jane of her fortune by way of a frame story structure. By telling her the story of a orphaned girl, and filling in the details until it becomes evident that he is speaking about none other than Jane herself, and through this revelation I believe he completes his role as the major final foil for Jane. I believe John Rivers completes his mission as Jane's final symbolic foil by by giving unto Jane what she deserved from the beginning truth and justice. John Rivers symbolically rights the wrongs of her childhood, bringing Jane from her childhood and present experience of dependence, to a position of empowerment.

In Jane Eyre, St. John Rivers and Eliza Reed are one in the same in the way they shut out all of their emotions and dedicated their lives to work of God in order to replace the missing emotion in their everyday lives. Both are organized and they were not happy with their lives, with Eliza being jealous of her beautiful sister, who seemed to have more romance in her life and St. John, who did not want to settle down with a family, but rather to spread the works of God. Eliza Reed and St. John Rivers both remove emotion out of their mundane lives and instead turn to religion in their own ways.

The start of chapter twenty-nine consists of Jane telling the new group of people she is staying with about her life. She starts off by giving a false name, Jane Elliot, but tells everything else the same only with some other changes to names to keep herself a secret. During chapter thirty-three, St John sits with Jane and begins telling her some stories that make her worried. St. John begins by saying how about twenty years ago he knew a man and his wife who became sick and died after their daughter was born, Instantly this shook Jane because it means he knows who she really is. One of the biggest examples is when Jane was with St. John and she started to hear Mr. Rochester. On page one hundred eight, Jane hears Mr. Rochester’s voice and she tries to follow it outside but she cannot find him anywhere. She stumbled around in the dark yelling I am coming! Wait! Oh, I will come!” as she ran out of the

John Rivers was also affected by Bertha even though they had never met. He was in a difficult place where he was fighting over whether or not to marry a woman named Rosamond Oliver. He wants to marry her and she hopes that he will ask her, but he can not bring himself to do it because he does not think she would make a good missionary wife. Jane shows up and he begins to take a liking to her and helps her find a job. After that he sees that Jane would make a good missionary wife and asks her to go to India with him. Rosamond Oliver eventually gives up and marries someone else and Jane is about go with St. John when she hears Rochester’s voice and refuses. Jane’s love for Rochester is strengthened and St. John, with no one else, goes to India alone and after ten years he dies. Jane would not have meet any of her cousins if she did not leave and she would not have gotten the money from her dying uncle. Had Bertha not been married to Rochester Jane would have never left and met St. John Rivers and he may have married Rosamond Oliver and been together with someone when he died, but Jane came and distracted him and Rosamond married someone

{{In your introduction, include a brief summary, with the title and the author, and a thesis which address the prompt directly. Answer the question in the last sentence of your introduction.}}First and foremost, I will {{Avoid the "I" statement. State your opinion as a fact and support it.}} be describing the relationship Jane and St. John Rivers in the story Jane eyre. St. John Rivers wanted to marry Jane but she wasn't on board with his plan, she wasn't attracted to him like every other female. The reason behind Jane not wanting to be married to Rivers was because she saw things in him that other females didn't. in the beginning of the story Jane is living with her aunt and cousins who don't like her, she is a powerless ten-year old who's isolated from everyone. To sum up, St. John Rivers And Jane Eyre's relationship wasn't really a relationship because the feelings weren't mutual.

The entire St. John plotline is truncated, a choice which I consider not very inspired, since it constitutes a major part in Jane’s development and growth to the woman she aspires to be. The action taking place at Marsh End is shifted to Gateshead, St. John only has one sister (Mary), and Jane has met them before when she came to visit her dying aunt, Mrs. Reed. The job Jane gets at Morton as a school teacher is not mentioned and neither is the fact that her newly found companions are her cousins. She donates part of her inheritance to Lowood School, instead of dividing it between herself, St. John, Mary and Diana. The fact that in the film St. John and Mary are not her relatives has a strong repercussion on how we interpret the sequences. Always in search of somewhere to belong to, she finally finds not just a spiritual family in the person of her friends, but also a real family, one she never knew she had. At Marsh End, she finds solace, a purpose, and, most importantly, she gains her long desired autonomy and independence (in the form of the wealth she inherits and also as her working as a teacher), no longing having to depend on anyone for sustenance. From Rochester’s intellectual equal, she becomes also his social

One could look through the enticing piece of literature that is Jane Eyre through a variety of lenses, two significant lenses being mythological and autobiographical. Charlotte Bronte creates an imaginative plot line that encaptures her readers and contributes to the essence of her work as a whole. Bronte combines the lenses of mythology and autobiography not only to appeal to her readers but to balance out the fairy-tale like events with realistic and real-life issues.

John accepts her. Jane is also the pursuit against isolation, and she expresses her feelings to Helen. She indicates that failure to receive love from others then ‘she would rather die than live because it 's hard to be hated. She pledges with Hellen or Miss Temple to love her despite the cost she will pay .At her adulthood, she is joyful to learn her relationship with the Rivers because it makes her non-solitary, blessed, cheerful, brilliant, and exciting (Blonte 389) The sense of belonging and end of the othering start. Jane’final matrimonial to Rochester as the novel is ending fulfills her desire as she is placed in a small social group. She finds solace in her children even though they physical and spiritual isolation dies not end (379). Jane is also the same in mannerisms and ideology. Conversely, for Antoinette’s case, in England, the Other makes Antoinette see the dark and gloom, yet she is used to red. She finally turns to American figures and burns to death in rebellion to the male voice believing she has destroyed England. In the Wide Sargasso Sea, When Rochester –Bertha marriage deteriorates she thinks England would save her than her Island because she reflects it is a beautiful (Rhys 111).However, her imagination combines winter, summer and cane fields with snow a failed full knowledge of England life. Here she is othered but keeps dreaming positively about England; she does not even believe that her motherland can make her a slave. In her several dreams, Antoinette sees her mother and England who hates her hence it is the Island that offers solace. While in the Thornfield Hall attic, Antoinette testifies that she cannot believe she is in