Jane’s Survival
Jane is a very intricate young woman who from the very start of her life wasn’t blessed with good looks or charm, but something even better, strong will and fiery passion. She faces many problems throughout her childhood that would drive many crazy and yet seems to come out of it better than anyone else. When she was a child she was disliked by her caregiver Mrs. Reed, but Jane still strove to make Mrs. Reed happy. Jane watched with a bitter envy while Eliza, John, and Georgiana “clustered round their mother in the drawing room... and with her darlings about her looked perfectly happy” (Bronte, 1) this was where her fire was born, that need for love. As she grows older she starts to lose that need and becomes more and more independent. Jane becomes a person that is not reliant upon anyone, but herself which allows her to fend for herself in the world she knows nothing about. When Rochester wants to give her material objects of love she rejects them, she “never can bear being dressed like a doll by Mr. Rochester” (Bronte, 289) because she doesn’t want those objects that would make her who she is not. The reader becomes attached to Jane due to her turmoil and when Mr. Rochester and her are getting married the heart lifts and drops again, but even yet, jane keeps strong and in the end the reader is contented to find she gets her love, the only thing she wished for.
-Sancho
I'm impressed with both volume and content here. You also demonstrate some strong skills in quote incorporation and syntax. Why is the reader so contented? What is it about this character that appeals to our sense of just desserts?
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