The themes of Jane Eyrenanshifeng[Abstract]: Charlotte Bronte created successfully a typical woman characters who has the courage to rebel and fight for freedom and equality. This present paper, from what Jane Eyre experienced and what she thought about the happenings, analyses Jane Eyre's independent, rebellious characters and spirits and Jane Eyre includes the spiritual and supernatural themes.[Key words] Jane Eyre themes independent rebellious spiritual supernatural Introduction Jane Eyre, a novel by C.Bronte, published 1847. Charlotte Bronte created successfully a typical woman characters who has the courage to rebel and fight for freedom and equality. This present paper, from what Jane ...view middle of the document...
The marriage ceremony is interrupted by Mrs Rochester's brother from the West Indian and despite Rochester's full confession and pleadings with Jane to stay with him, she flees. After nearly perishing on the moors, she is taken in and cared for by the Revd. St John Rivers and his sisters Mary and Diana. It emerges that they are her cousins, and that Jane has inherited money from an uncle: the legacy is equally divided between the four under pressure from the earnest appeals and strong personality of the dedicated Rivers; she nearly consents to marry him and share his missionary vocation in India, but is prevented by a telepathic appeal from Rochester. She returns to Hopfield Hall to find the building burned, and Rochester blinded and maimed from his attempt to save his wife from the flames. She marries him, and in the last chapter we learn that his sight is partially restored.Jane Eyre Theme AnalysisIn the beginning of Jane Eyre, Jane struggles against Bessie, the nurse at Gateshead Hall, and says, I resisted all the way: a new thing for me..."(Chapter 2). This sentence foreshadows what will be an important theme of the rest of the book, that of female independence or rebelliousness. Jane is here resisting her unfair punishment, but throughout the novel she expresses her opinions on the state of women. Tied to this theme are another of class and the resistance of the terms of one's class. Spiritual and supernatural themes can also be traced throughout the novel.Soon after Jane is settled at Lowood Institution she finds the enjoyment of expanding her own mind and talents. She forgets the hardships of living at the school and focuses on the work of her own hands. She is not willing to give this up when she is engaged to Rochester. She resists becoming dependent on him and his money. She does not want to be like his mistresses, with their fancy gowns and jewels, but even after she and Rochester are married, she wants to remain as Adele's governess. She is not willing to give up her independence to Rochester, and tries to seek her own fortune by writing to her uncle. In the end, when she does have her own money, she states, "I am my own mistress" (Chapter 37).Jane not only shows the reader her beliefs on female independence through her actions, but also through her thoughts. Jane desires to see more of the world and have more interaction with its people. While she appreciates her simple life at Thornfield, she regrets that she does not have the means to travel. She relates her feelings to all women, not just those of her class, saying:Women are supposed to be very calm generally: but women feel just as men feel; they need exercise for their faculties, and a field for their efforts as much as their brothers do; they suffer from too rigid a restraint, too absolute a stagnation, precisely as men would suffer; and it is narrow-minded in their more privileged fellow-creatures to say that they ought to confine themselves to making puddings and knitting...