Cruelty in Jane Eyre
In Charlotte Bront's Jane Eyre, cruelty and ill will are prevalent themes. Three of the characters affected by cruelty and ill will are Jane Eyre, Edward Rochester, and Bertha Antoinette Mason Rochester. Jane experiences malice from Mrs. Reed, her aunt, who repeatedly wishes to dispel all happiness from Jane's life. The family of Rochester victimizes him when they arrange his marriage to an insane woman in order to prevent splitting the family fortune. Bertha is the spouse of Rochester and undergoes much suffering because love does not bond their marriage. Cruelty, therefore, creates dramatic situations and causes varied emotions throughout the novel. Mrs., Reed punishes Jane with cruelty because Mr. Reed, her husband, showed greater affection for Jane than for his own children. When Jane becomes a bother to her, she sends her to Lowood Institution, a crumbling, decrepit, and destitute school for girls. Mrs. Reed is aware that if she sends Jane to Lowood, she will suffer at the hands of Mr. Brocklehurst, the hardhearted superintendent. In order to ensure Jane's misery further, she informs Jane's only known relative that Jane has died when he offers to adopt her. Jane suffers at her aunt's hands when her aunt l
"Well, I have twice done you a wrong which I regret now. One was in breaking the promise which I gave my husband to bring you up as my own child; the other-...-Go to my dressing-case, open it, and take out a letter you will see there." I obeyed her directions, "Read the letter," she said. It was short, and thus conceived:-"Madam, Will you have the goodness to send me the address of my niece, Jane Eyre, and tell me how she is: it is my intention to write shortly and desire her to come to me at Madeira. Providence has blessed my endeavours to secure a competency; and as I am unmarried and childless, I wish to adopt her during my life, and bequeath her at my death whatever I may have to leave. I am, Madam, etc., etc. John Eyre, Madeira." It was dated three years back. "Why did I never hear of this?" I asked. "Because I disliked you too fixedly and thoroughly ever to lend a hand in lifting you to prosperity." (Brontė 242) His family's greed, therefore, keeps Rochester from happiness. ...it was his [the father of Rochester's] resolution to keep the property together; he could not bear the idea of dividing his estate and leaving me a fair portion: all, he resolved, should go to my brother, Rowland. Yet as little could he endure that a son of his should be a poor man. I must be provided for by a wealthy marriage. He sought me a partner betimes. Mr. Mason, a West India planter and merchant, was his old acquaintance. He was certain his possessions were real and vast: he made inquiries. Mr. Mason, he found, had a son and a daughter; and he learned form him that he could and would give the latter a fortune of thirty thousand pounds: t
Some common words found in the essay are:
Bertha Mason, Jane Lowood, Rochester Jane, Spanish Town, Jane Eyre, Poole Bertha's, West India, Madeira Providence, Edward Rochester, Eyre Madeira, jane eyre, edward rochester, antoinette mason, cruelty ill, bertha antoinette mason, bertha antoinette, eyre edward rochester, rochester bertha, marriage cruelty, eyre edward, thousand pounds, family rochester, rochester bertha antoinette, jane eyre edward, thirty thousand pounds,
Approximate Word count = 1116
Approximate Pages = 4 (250 words per page double spaced)
|
