Friday, October 15, 2010
Jane Eyre and The Romantic Movement
Chapter 27 is a great one in many ways. I'm sure you'll want to blog about the moral dilemma Jane faces and the "debate". However, please also take a few minutes to comment on how this chapter adds to our view of Bronte as a writer of the Romantic Movement. Imagination, nature, symbolism, myth, emotion, individualism, the everyday and the exotic - what shows up here?
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After reading chapter 27, I instantly thought of irony. It was so ironic that Jane escaped the harsh grasp of the Reed family to eventually end up with a man she thought of as perfect; Jane would leave him just as she had left the Reed household in Gateshead. In this chapter, Charlotte Bronte demonstrates Mr. Rochester with new outbursting emotions the reader has not witnessed his character portray before, and exhibits Jane's strength to leave what she wanted most,a perfect life with the perfect man. One main theme of this chapter is desire - Mr. Rochester's desire for Jane, a normal wife that is sure to promise future happiness, and Jane being able to force back her desire and leave Thornfield. From reading Jane Eyre, I have become attached to Mr. Rochester, and the joy he has created for Jane. This chapter came as a shock to me when Jane decided to leave him and her hopes behind. Now I am left wondering how Jane will make a new start, and if she can find another man. I think that Charlotte Bronte purposely made Mr. Rochester such an appealing man so that when the story came to the part where Jane left, the reader would see the event as devastating and tragic. The character's rapidly fluctuating emotions of despair, shock, and loss made the story more interesting to me. The voice of Jane's mother, warning her to flee temptation, symbolizes Jane's unseen protection. Her mother's message served as her conscience.
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