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1.love, family

2.independence

3.social class

4.gender roles

2022-02-06

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• BBH09
  Jane Eyre's theme was an early feminist theme that demanded equality between men and women, or more generally, equality of people all over the world. In addition, women must be independent and pursue something, and cannot rely on men to live. Women are not men's pets, so in the story, Rochester is arranged to be disabled, and he really needs the company and care of Jane Eyre both mentally and physically. In order to explain that women must be financially independent, author arranged a plot such as the uncle's inheritance at the end of the story.

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• Chloethegoat
  Jane Eyre  is very much the story of a quest to be loved. Jane searches, not just for romantic love, but also for a sense of being valued, of belonging. Thus Jane says to Helen Burns: “to gain some real affection from you, or Miss Temple, or any other whom I truly love, I would willingly submit to have the bone of my arm broken, or to let a bull toss me, or to stand behind a kicking horse, and let it dash its hoof at my chest” (Chapter 8). Yet, over the course of the book, Jane must learn how to gain love  without  sacrificing and harming herself in the process.

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• z海琳

  Life in 19th-century Britain was governed by social class, and people typically stayed in the class into which they were born. Both as an orphan at Gateshead and as a governess at Thornfield, Jane holds a position that is between classes, and interacts with people of every level, from working-class servants to aristocrats. Jane's social mobility lets Brontë create a vast social landscape in her novel in which she examines the sources and consequences of class boundaries. For instance, class differences cause many problems in the love between Jane and Rochester. Jane must break through class prejudices about her standing, and make people recognize and respect her personal qualities. Brontë tries to illustrate how personal virtues are better indicators of character than class. 

  Yet the novel doesn't entirely endorse breaking every social rule. Jane refuses, for instance, to become Rochester's mistress despite the fact that he was tricked into a loveless marriage. Jane recognizes that how she sees herself arises at least partly out of how society sees her, and is unwilling to make herself a powerless outcast for love.

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