Thursday, September 2, 2010
Jane Eyre's Happiness
"Jane Eyre" by Charlotte Bronte main character Jane has two happy and sad side's. From [her] terrible childhood to her interesting love towards Rochester [she] has [her] hand's full. Almost marring St. John [she] is afraid to leave him due the the fact [she] would lose her emotional life. So [she] is careful of not wasting certain feelings that [she] has. Jane cannot leave Mr. Rochester for work reason's and the confusing love towards him." I thought: " then I should not have to make the effort of cracking my heart strings in rending them from among Mr. Rochester. I must leave him, it appears. I do not want to leave him I cannot leave him" (284). Jane encounters Happiness towards the end when Bertha Mr. Rochester's wife burns down the house and kills herself and Mr. Rochester is faced head on with blindness, burns, and loss of a hand from the fire. Jane returns to him, and has the role now of being the boss in a way. [She] then marries him and everything starts to go well Mr. Rochester starts to regain his eye sight around two years later, and they have a boy. So even though [she] is faced with a hard life, in the end god begins to favor her. " I thought anger would be better than greaf. But if you wish me to love you, could you but see how much I do love you, you would be proud and content."(425)
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great supporting information, Jon. We should target incorporating quotes into the flow of your prose. Also, the square brackets are only for putting your own words into a pre-existing quote, not for normal writing.
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