Compare & Contrast Jane Eyre & Superman and Paula's New Snow
Both novels are a heterogeneous collection of the same theme: the spiritual and emotional growth of the heroine. Both novels send forth, political messages traversing feminism idea of one's emancipation. Bronte uses Jane as a figure of female independence, while Sylvia Plath demonstrates her views on civil rights through the narrators' point of view. In this essay I will be examining the childhood events and journeys that both Jane (from chapter 1-4) and the narrator of SPBNS encounters. Written in 1840s, set in the 1830s published in 1848, "Jane Eyre" the title provides us no clue as to what the story will be about. Bronte or first known as "Currer Bell" has reflected this novel upon the Victorian era, allowing herself and of Jane confidently rely on one but herself to challenge a very "inferior" status of that period. JE opens with a revelation question: "What does Bessie say I have done?" tell us that Jane is someone who is not only very curiosity in life, but also her place in it. Bronte presents Jane's quest to question "elitism", (hence reflects moral sensibility of British Society at the mid-century), as Mrs Reed immediately considered Jane being a "passionate" girl. "...until you can speak pleasantly, remain
"Corruption and betrayal" accelerated not by a child but by an adult, Mrs Reed warns Mr. Brocklehurst, the school headmaster at Lowood, of Jane's passion, wickless and uncivilized manner, "...to guard against her worst fault, a tendency to deceit...". Jean reaction appear raw and uncensored, and at the same time foreshadowing possible future responses to restraints. She made no use of tact or any of the various social conventions for protecting the feeling of someone. The selfishness and the egocentric way in which they both viewed the world kept them from sympathising with each other. Bronte shows the importance of being able to sympathize with others by showing Jane grows and matures, learning these skills. This emotional moral theme had a profound effect on society in realms such as art, literature, religion, psychology, politics, and revolution. Likewise, both the narrator and Jane have here own little insecurity that they cannot change. For Jane it is her physical appearance, for the narrator in "SPBNS" to be perceived as an innocently weak creature, may be due to the fact that she comes from a different ethic background. Otto is mentioned as her father, but her mother says she is glad he didn't live to see what is happening in the USA, rather than wishing him alive, when her uncle speaks of Germans in America being put in prison. Plath has set the story to be an obvious relevance to wartime setting, showing how ready some people are to shift the blame for their own actions onto someone else.
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Approximate Word count = 1573
Approximate Pages = 6 (250 words per page double spaced)
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