Jane Eyre Research task 4:

Research Task 4:

Jane was a girl with many hopes and dreams, as she grew up some of those dreams came true and some only parts of those dreams, but as she grew up she realized that those dreams were only dreams and will always remain dreams and her imagination. As a child, Jane never had the ideal childhood, and therefore she developed a deep desire to have children of her own, to love them and give them the childhood she never had. She has various dreams of the children she wants, she dream of them lying in her arms, sitting on her lap and laying outside. The dreams were sometimes happy and sometimes sad. One can see how the fact that she was left by her father, that claimed he loved her, still haunts her, and this caused these dreams she had through her life.

Jane gets engaged to Rochester and then she has the strange dreams that haunt her. She dreams of walking with Rochester on a road and he starts walking too fast and she can not keep up with him. Later on she imagines her that the thorn field is being destructed; she walks around with a child in her arms. She imagines how a wall is separating Rochester from her, she tries to climb over it but the child she is holding is making it difficult and strangling her. The time she eventually reaches the top, Rochester is too far away already, the wall breaks and she and the child falls to the ground. Her other dream is when Jane dreams how Blanche Ingram is going to marry Rochester, Ingram then fire Jane and show her the way out and off on the road to another place.

It is not only Jane’s dreams that are representing her subconscious, but her paintings too, they are closely linked to each other. Her first painting she is doing shows ship’s mast, a bare hand with a bracelet rising from the stormy sea. Her second painting involves a picture of a hill with heavy winds and a night sky from which a woman’s face is showing. The third painting she does is a painting of a human head that is supported by a hand and resting on an iceberg, coming out of the sea. As time passes Adele asked Jane to draw a painting of Rochester and Jane does so, when Rochester realises what is happening, he thinks it is a mockery and tries to tear it up, but Adele manage to save it.

Rochester never realized Jane’s talent and therefore underestimated her. The painting of Rochester gives Jane and Rochester their first conversation and he discovers her work and the beauty of it. When looking deeper to Jane’s paintings one sees how it also contains a lot of water and it can symbolise how her father left her and went on a boat on the water overseas.

Jane as a child grew up in horrible circumstances, and taught herself to escape from them by dreaming and making things in her imagination. This gave her a very active imagination and is her way of facing the reality she is living in. It enabled her to make the world she lives in seems more like a fairytale and easier. It is her way of escaping and not to let the world and society hurt her.

Jane Eyre Research Task 3:

Research Task 3:

1.    The question woman had, was their concern of the people who were confused about the women’s place in the society in the Middle Victorian era. Suddenly women had rights and men struggled to figure out what the women now wanted, for woman now had the opportunity to get educated and have their own property. Men struggled to accept that woman suddenly had the same rights as them. Thanks to the feminist woman had been given a chance in life; they ensured that woman and men now had the same opportunities and rights. The earlier year’s woman was in no position to divorce her husband, they were often manipulated and abused, but thanks to the new era woman could find their way out of a bad marriage. Woman no longer felt entrapped and this made the society wondering if this was such a great idea.

2.     In chapter 10, Jane is surprised by the way she gets treated. When she gets there she gets treated like a guest in the house, and it wasn’t the way she expected it to be like, usually governess were treated like the middle class people. For Jane this didn’t feel right, she found a few books, but none of them caught her eye, for none of them were academically stimulating. In chapter 16 Jane was asked to draw a picture of her, without softening the poorness and life as a governess. When reading further in chapter 17 one see how the high class ladies made their views of a governess clear. They thought a governess was incompetent, but even though they had that image they still hired one to raise their children. The ladies preferred not to be associated with a governess, for they had to work for their money and woman then did not work at all. The ladies felt that a governess was part of the working class but lived like middle class people.

3.    A governess came from the working class, but they lived and acted like the middle class, and this narrowed the difference between the working and middle class people and therefore became a threat. The governess was appointed to teach the children good values and by that one realize that the governess could not have bad values themselves. A governess was in no position to marry the middle class, because they often worked for them, they could not marry the servant, because the servant was even lower than them. The governess lived the life of a middle class person, she raised their children but could not be called one, usually all the governesses were pure.

Jane Eyre Research task 2:

1.   Bessie was an employee at the house of Miss Reed and had to know her place. Bessie saw how Jane’s cousin was the first to attack her, but she knew that she couldn’t tell Miss Reed about what she had seen. After all the drama, Bessie is the one trying to comfort little Jane, she tries to tell Jane how to behave to not let such a nasty experience happen to her again. Bessie knows that this will improve Jane’s life with the Reed family, and she will be a happier child. Even though Bessie doesn’t agree with Miss Reed actions towards Jane, she has to respect her and her choices.

2.   Jane was placed with the Reed family when she was still a very young child; she never became part of them and was always seen as the outcast. Her elder cousin seen himself in a higher position than Jane, and occasionally picked on her. Jane was depended of the Reed family even though she is an unhappy child in their household, and gets rejected by everyone. Jane gets to a point in her life where she gets tired of being the good girl, and starts acting a little crazy as Miss Reed says, and by her crazy actions she got locked up into the red room, where she was that whole night.

Jane was in no position to make her statement or to stand up for herself, and when she was sent to school she got her first opportunity to do so and prove people wrong. That night she spent in the red room she decides not to become part of the society, her family she was placed with, or with men. She decides not to be just like the other entire woman in the society after she was being treated unfairly and was placed in the red room and gave her a nasty experience. That night she made her decision and it changed her life, she had a whole new point of view to the society.

3.   Jane at a later stage in her life finds herself very affectionate towards Mr Rochester’s daughter, because she grew up being rejected by people, and she knew how it felt not to be loved by them. At the Logwood she was humiliated and were accused and called being crazy, and then later when she finds herself so deeply in love with Mr Rochester, she can’t help to feel humiliated when she realize he is married to a crazy woman. Jane felt uneasy when the crazy woman, Bertha, tries to attack her and burn down the house. One see how Jane got humiliated a few times in her life and after the first time she got the chance to go away, but when she got humiliated at the wedding she chose to flee away on her own. One can see how one nasty experience like the red room affected her life.

Research task 1: Jane Eyre

1.      The novel was written in the 19^th century and in those time people was divided into three different groups. They were either in the upper class where they inherited money and were really wealthy, or they were part of being in the middle class who were at that stage the relatively smaller group, and then there was the working class people, who were associated with the people with diseases and had criminal records, they were seen as the people being a charity and the other groups pitied them.

Women and men were also divided into two separate groups. The woman were supposed to be and stereotyped to be passive, emotional and nursing to their husbands. Woman didn’t need to work; if they did work they were seen as not being a real woman. The men on the other hand were the ones with the aggression and to be rational, and they had to be muscular.

As the time passed the roles of the men and women changed, woman became more public and in that order they became more masculine and more independent. The men stopped working as hard and eventually became the feminine figure. This caused a weakness amongst the upper class but luckily over tome it changed again.

People were put in their certain groups and even though it wasn’t always that way people always had the set of beliefs and the “ideal” idea for certain people.

2.      1. Motivation for her to write this Preface was to show response to all the people’s criticism she received after publishing the first addition. She wanted people to stop with their critics and insults; she corrected them by publishing the Preface and ended up by making them to look stupid.

2. Currer Bell corrected the criticism she got by repeating their ideas and made them look stupid at the end. By writing it she found why they criticised her, not for the novel itself but because she was a woman, and in the proses she urged woman to stand behind her and made their voices count.

3. She wrote under a scale name, a name appropriate for both the sexes. By doing this she could write about what she wanted to, without people jumping on her case and giving her grieve about it.

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The sex of the writer was definitely an issue to the people. “Name and sex of the writer is still a mystery”. They looked deeper into the type of writing there was used and found that certain quotes looked as if it had to be a man who wrote it, “Throughout there is masculine power, breadth and shrewdness, combined with masculine hardness, coarse and freedom of expression”. The other quotes showed the opposite and it looked as if it was written by a woman, “the love scenes glows with fire” woman get so emotional and passionate about these things.

There has been discriminating as soon as they realized it was a woman who wrote it, they realized that she had the power to write this good novel, and then instead they criticized her to get at her, “Such genuine power with such horrible taste”.  She was a lower class woman in her book as well as she as a woman, and was at the bottom of the human life form, “Making an unworthy character interesting in the eyes of the reader” even though the woman was the lowest form of human life these woman still had soles.

The readers felt offended and embarrassed and so they ended up criticising her, and her novel. “She has inherited in fullest measure the greatest sin of our time- the sin of pride. Jane Eyre is proud and therefore she is ungrateful too.” This showed how things worked in those years.

The readers were so offended when they discovered it was a woman who wrote such a brilliant piece of work. They criticised instead of giving her the credit, they were so scared that other woman would also take the opportunity to start writing and doing the same as she did. In those times they also couldn’t give too much credit to a woman in order to keep the men better as a woman for them not to lose their authority. The other thing that was a problem to the readers was the fact that she was a lower class woman, and that made them think, that she might be cleverer than the learned and well educated people. They felt it necessary to  not let this be and let a woman with lower standard influence other people, for than they criticised the book and made it sound as if it was the worst book ever.