Hello dear teacher and fellows,
How are you? As I like "Jane Eyre" by Charlotte Bronte very much I decided to post just some information about this wonderful novel.
I would like to speak about its themes.
So,one of them is "Marriage".In Jane Eyre,marriage is about a combination of three things: compatibility, passion,and ethics.A marriage also has to have more than common ground – it has to have passion.
Another theme treated in this novel is "Education".The education in this novel,however,is mostly aesthetic; characters learn basic music performance,basic artistic skills and a little bit of foreign language.It’s enough to make them seem cultured,but not to make them actually useful for anything except teaching music,art and foreign language.Education is also a safe haven,something that provides emotional satisfaction in a protected space separate from the hardships and difficulties of the world.
The theme of "Appearances" is not a major theme but anyway stays here.Beautiful women turn out to be intriguing harpies or selfish idiots; plain women turn out to have hidden depths of passion; ugly men aren’t actually ugly,but excitingly masculine in a harsh,craggy way.Virtuous characters resist having their appearances radically changed or improved because doing so seems like pretending to be something they aren’t.
"Society and Class".Jane Eyre,I mean the novel not the charcater looks down its nose in disgust at the existing Victorian class hierarchy.Jane Eyre implies that poverty can be thoroughly respectable,as long as it’s accompanied by an earnest desire to better oneself – or at least earn one’s living.Definitely,it’s easy to value poverty and hard work when,in the end,all the right people get the money.
There are very few things in Jane Eyre that are actually supernatural, but "the supernatural" is still a major theme in this novel.Over and over,events that seem eerie,uncanny,Gothic or supernatural will be explained away by rational circumstances.
In the strictest sense,Jane Eyre is all about "morality" – in fact,it’s close to being didactic.Characters seem to have an innate sense of right and wrong,and it isn’t difficult to tell what decision to make in an ethical crisis.It is,however,extremely difficult for these characters to make ethical choices in a world where morality and passion seem to be mutually exclusive.Characters must choose between being right and being happy.
Foreignness and "The Other" are complex themes in Jane Eyre.The novel depends heavily on the relationship between England,at the center and a variety of other places and groups:colonial holdings, continental nations,missionary outposts and even oriental stereotypes.England and Englishness are both strengthened and threatened by each of these factors and the ability to move between the foreign and the domestic is an opportunity for financial and personal gain – but also a chance for contamination,threats,fear or prejudice.Even characters who seem to be at the very center of England and the very center of the novel can easily be made to seem foreign and out of place.
In one sense,Jane Eyre is about the quest of an orphan girl for a home.In this novel,"home" isn’t just where you hang your hat – it has to be somewhere that you not only feel comfortable and safe,but also have loving relationships with other people.It’s even possible for characters to be metaphorically homeless here even though they’ve lived in the same place their whole lives.It’s also possible for characters to have more than one home because they have different family and romantic relationships that create several comfortable refuges for them.
So guys,these are all the themes that I managed to find in this novel.I hope that you will enjoy to learn about them too as well as me.Good luck my dear,read this wonderful novel and enjoy it!
Love,
A.G.
How are you? As I like "Jane Eyre" by Charlotte Bronte very much I decided to post just some information about this wonderful novel.
I would like to speak about its themes.
So,one of them is "Marriage".In Jane Eyre,marriage is about a combination of three things: compatibility, passion,and ethics.A marriage also has to have more than common ground – it has to have passion.
Another theme treated in this novel is "Education".The education in this novel,however,is mostly aesthetic; characters learn basic music performance,basic artistic skills and a little bit of foreign language.It’s enough to make them seem cultured,but not to make them actually useful for anything except teaching music,art and foreign language.Education is also a safe haven,something that provides emotional satisfaction in a protected space separate from the hardships and difficulties of the world.
The theme of "Appearances" is not a major theme but anyway stays here.Beautiful women turn out to be intriguing harpies or selfish idiots; plain women turn out to have hidden depths of passion; ugly men aren’t actually ugly,but excitingly masculine in a harsh,craggy way.Virtuous characters resist having their appearances radically changed or improved because doing so seems like pretending to be something they aren’t.
"Society and Class".Jane Eyre,I mean the novel not the charcater looks down its nose in disgust at the existing Victorian class hierarchy.Jane Eyre implies that poverty can be thoroughly respectable,as long as it’s accompanied by an earnest desire to better oneself – or at least earn one’s living.Definitely,it’s easy to value poverty and hard work when,in the end,all the right people get the money.
There are very few things in Jane Eyre that are actually supernatural, but "the supernatural" is still a major theme in this novel.Over and over,events that seem eerie,uncanny,Gothic or supernatural will be explained away by rational circumstances.
In the strictest sense,Jane Eyre is all about "morality" – in fact,it’s close to being didactic.Characters seem to have an innate sense of right and wrong,and it isn’t difficult to tell what decision to make in an ethical crisis.It is,however,extremely difficult for these characters to make ethical choices in a world where morality and passion seem to be mutually exclusive.Characters must choose between being right and being happy.
Foreignness and "The Other" are complex themes in Jane Eyre.The novel depends heavily on the relationship between England,at the center and a variety of other places and groups:colonial holdings, continental nations,missionary outposts and even oriental stereotypes.England and Englishness are both strengthened and threatened by each of these factors and the ability to move between the foreign and the domestic is an opportunity for financial and personal gain – but also a chance for contamination,threats,fear or prejudice.Even characters who seem to be at the very center of England and the very center of the novel can easily be made to seem foreign and out of place.
In one sense,Jane Eyre is about the quest of an orphan girl for a home.In this novel,"home" isn’t just where you hang your hat – it has to be somewhere that you not only feel comfortable and safe,but also have loving relationships with other people.It’s even possible for characters to be metaphorically homeless here even though they’ve lived in the same place their whole lives.It’s also possible for characters to have more than one home because they have different family and romantic relationships that create several comfortable refuges for them.
So guys,these are all the themes that I managed to find in this novel.I hope that you will enjoy to learn about them too as well as me.Good luck my dear,read this wonderful novel and enjoy it!
Love,
A.G.
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