Analyse the presentation of Jane in Bronte’s ‘Jane Eyre’ Essay

How is Jane presented in Charlotte Bronts Jane Eyre?Charlotte Bront presents Jane in three different dents of her sustenance that run short by from childhood at her auntys house to her braggy life at Thornfield. The presentation of Janes personality and looks is sh witness both(prenominal) through her own narration as surface as the dialogue among the characters.The first base section of Janes life is at Gateshead, her aunts house, and she is presented as a child who is exclusively ten and who is plain large to be depict as a little toad by hotshot of the house servants. After her pargonnts un quantifyly death Jane was forced to stretch forth with relatives, which she did non mind until her uncle clogd too. After that she was treated with contempt by her aunt and cousins Eliza and Georgiana and her cousin John was a bully, he struck suddenly and potently.The unkindness Jane experiences causes her to cede a burning sense of manginess from that read and it begins w ith her fighting back against John by c eithering him a wrong and cruel boy. Her aunts contempt for Jane in time, whitethorn be because she refuses to ingratiate herself to her aunts wishes, which could be construed as Jane possibly being proud Mrs reed says that Jane should acquire a to a greater extent soci equal to(p) and child wish disposition. A more attractive and sprightly manner but Jane feels she should be accepted for who she is and non to open to play up to her aunts wishes, no be what the consequences. As a result her aunt feels she is a child with a tendency to deceit and tends to punish her for it.Jane is shown to be a precise literary child she takes comfort in reading or looking at books and she uses deli actually like ships becalmed on a torpid sea which for a ten year grey-headed, even at that time, is rather impressive. though it must be taken into account that by the time Jane tells the grade she is probably in her thirties or forties and so the langua ge may not be exactly that which the ten year old Jane would have actually used. The books she reads feed her already vibrant imagination which hold up her to believe that things like a light flashing past the windowpane was a herald of whatever coming vision from another ball, that the blood she could hear rushing through her ears was the rushing of wings and she mat that something ne argond me.Had her imagination not been quite so vivid she could probably have thought it through and seen that at that place was a rational explanation for these phenomenon, for Jane seems to have good judgement. She certainly seems to have a talent of being able to analyse pecks characters well. While Jane is in the red room she is thinking over why she is so mischievously treated although she had d wholeness nothing wrong and the reader sees her analyse to each one of her cousins Eliza is headstrong and selfish and Georgiana has a spoiled temper, a very sulfurous spite, a captious and insol ent carriage. This is an analysis the reader may feel inclined to agree with because that is how the cousins have been portrayed from the start however it is worth remembering that as Jane is the narrator there may be a certain bias against them.The next section in which Jane is presented is during her time at Lowood Institution particularly the first few months of her stay there. Jane is presented as still having a burning sense of injustice as she sees some of things that happen to girls who are punished and from the readers perspective one evict see why. The girls are unfairly punished and usually for things that are not even their fault, as was the plight of Julia Severn, whose hair curls naturally was ordered to have her hair cut off. Jane having been wrongly accused when she was called a liar, had curled up on the floor and her tears wet the boards. Jane could not take being accused falsely due to all the trouble it caused her at her aunts house and so she keeps grudges aga inst that do wrongly accuse her.Though it may have been seen previously in the section at Gateshead, the reader sees it more clearly during her times at Lowood that Jane could be considered stubborn. There are many times when Helen Burns tries to lurch Janes mind or so things that have or soly to do with religion. The first time the reader sees this is when Helen tells Jane that if all the world hated you but your own conscience approved you then she would not be without friends, but Jane unshakably states I know I should think well of myself but that is not enough if others dont love me, I would rather die than live. This alike shows a dependant need, in Jane, to be care by all she meets and a very melodramatic side to her that the reader rarely sees.The last important way the Jane is presented in in this section is as a very bright and hard working girl. On her first day she had reached the head of my class and she tells the reader that she toiled hard and in a few weeks I w as promoted to a higher class in less than two months I was allowed to commence French and drawing. This shows that Jane en gladdens give instruction and is willing to work hard to improve and become the best she can be.The third section in which Jane is presented commences eight years later when she accepts the theorise of becoming a governess at Thornfield Hall. As the reader has seen before, Charlotte Bront seems to determined to mark the fact that Jane is a plain girl as she explain to her employer Mr. Rochester when she tells him that she is his plain, Quakerish governess.She is also presented as being a very take to beful and polite employee of Mr. Rochester as she always calls him sir, even when they are engaged, and she seems to take some sort of joy in it as she has rarely been able to respect many people as she feels respect must be earned. She also has enough respect for him to tell him the truth to any question he asks her, even if it were not something one would usu ally ask at the time, and is wonderfully shown when she tells that wherever you are is my home my only home. This was a very forward argument but Jane felt that Mr Rochester ought to know it so she told him.During the time in which Rochester has the company of guests at Thornfield and they are playing Charades, Jane is shown as having the concept of self worth. She sees these handsome women and how they act but does not become jealous of their wealth or beauty. Instead she felt a sort of pity for them because though Blanche Ingram was very showy she was not genuine, she had a fine person but her mind was poor, she was not good she was not original and there are many more ways in which Jane describes Blanche Ingram. Jane feels that because of all this turn a loss Ingram was a mark beneath jealousy she was too inferior to stimulate the feeling. This not only states that she has self worth and does not feel that she should position herself down by thinking of Miss Ingram because of Blanches less than lovely qualities, it also shows a sense of pride in Jane. She feels proud to be who she is and would not want to be like Blanche Ingram if it meant not being very intellectual.Jane is presented as a passionate girl through the entire fable and we see it again in this section. Just before Rochester proposes to Jane, he talks to her about her leaving to go to Ireland for a new governess situation, but Jane feels like her heart is breaking at the thought of leaving him. In a passionate burst, she declares Do you think, because I am poor, obscure, plain, and little, I am soulless and heartless? You think wrong but she does not stop there. She goes on to tell Rochester in an abstract way that she loves him by saying And if perfection had gifted me with some beauty, and much wealth, I should have made it as hard for you to leave me, as it is now for me to leave you.Her passionate nature, most likely, came from her want to be treated as an equal, and though she is no tender equal to Mr Rochester she feel that she is his equal in intellect and feels down trodden when she is not treated as such. In the same passionate outburst as shown above she also exclaims it is my spirit that addresses your spirit just as if both had passed through the grave, and we stood at Gods feet, equal as we are This shows her need to be treated as an equal by the one she loves.Jane is presented as a girl who grows up being passionate about being treated equally and having a burning sense of injustice when people are wrongly accused or punished without cause. She is described as being a plain girl her whole life who is very smart, literary, hard working and imaginative. This is shown through the narration as well as through the dialogue between character.