Jane Eyre, from the innocence of childhood to mature adulthood. During this travelling, Jane Eyre experiences the education and full of blows, she tries to understand herself. However, she must constantly struggle with some form of containment, whether it is truly physical or mental. This struggle can be seen in Jane eyre's different experiences. Such as in lowood college, Moor house, and Ferndean Manor. She received a full education at the Manor. Jane eyre finally found her own salvation.
The story begins when Jane Eyre and the Reeds live at Gateshead Hall. Jane was shut up at home on a cold winter's day. The other children gathered around their mothers in the living room to receive their education, because Jane Eyre was excluded from the group of children. Jane is trying to read the history of British birds Berwick to education herself, but once again, she was stopped by John reed's abuse. He sternly scolded her, and threw the heavy books to her. Jane cries out, 'You are like a murderer, you are like a slave-driver, you are like the Roman emperors' (page 32）In this case, Jane Eyre compares John to a slaveholder. That deprived Jane of her education and oppressed her. Afterwards, Jane is blamed for the whole incident and experiences a real physical containment. She is locked in the 'red house'.The room bound her not only physically through walls and locked doors, but also spiritually.The red house was the place where Mr. Reed died. From that day on, a dull sense of dedication has protected it from constant encroachment.'No one wants to enter the room for long because they fear the same 'containment' will befall them.However, Jane is pushed into the room, fearing that she will be bound by the chains of death like Mr. Reed.The gateshead incident sparked the battle between education and containment in Jane eyre.
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Jane eyre was sent to lowood school later, there is a boarding school for girls.In lowood 'Surrounded with walls so high to exclude every prospect'. Jane eyre is educated in there where there are very strict odds and lifestyles.Jane eyre felt like she was at gateshead, where knowledge was limited. Mrs. Scatcherd punish her for getting her fingernails dirty because she couldn't clean them because of the water that had frozen at the morning. Jane sees that Mr.Brocklehurst reprimands Julia who with the naturally curled hair. He commands her cut the hair because he wants they know 'To clothe themselves with shamefacedness and sobriety, not with braided hair and costly apparel'(Page 87), but his wife and daughter was' decked out in velvet, silk and fur'. Their purpose is not truly educating them and giving them the same opportunities as everyone. They educate them to serve the rich. Jane will not be satisfied with this. She told Helen ' 'I must dislike those who, whatever I do to please them, persist in disliking me; I must resist those who punish me unjustly' ( Page: 89).
Then Jane goes to Thornfield after she has graduated from Lowood/ At Thornfield, She becomes educated about aspects of life . She becomes an educator of Adele Varens, Edward Rochester's master. It's the first time of Jane to caring for a man. Then she falls in love with Rochester. Jane often dreams of Rochester and she has been cherishing 'hopes, wishes, sentiments'. However, Jane has received constrain her education of love as she know 'It does good to no woman to be flattered by her superior, who cannot possibly intend to marry her; and it's madness in all women to let secret love kindle within them'. Jane compare herself to Blanche and said, 'Mr. Rochester might probably win that noble lady's love, if he chose to strive for it; is it likely he would waste a serious thought on this indigent and insignificant plebeian?' Then Jane seems that she has found a true love with Rochester, they love each other. However, her education of love failed once again. Jane cant marriage with Rochester because they can't break up of their marriage with accusations of bigamy. So Jane decides to leave the manor. Before she leave the manor, Jane dreams that 'She lay in the red-room at Gateshead'. When she leaves the manor, Jane said, 'God must have led me on' .
Then the next journey is at Moor House. Jane becomes great insight at Morden school. She thinks that she has made a right decision by leaving the manor. She lost in thought that 'Whether is it better, I ask, to be a slave in a fool's paradise at Marseilles...suffocating with the bitterest tears of remorse and shame...or to be a village schoolmistress, free and honest'( Page 352). However, Jane was bound by her spiritual happiness because she saw the impact of a totally spiritual life and worldly happiness on other guy. That is what she sees in St. John Rivers. At the same time Jane has 'dreams many-coloured...charged with adventure, with agitating risk and romantic chance' (Bronte: 391) about their life at Thornfield with Rochester. There is a different life on the moors . It has the opposite effect on Jane when she lives at Thornfield. Jane's feelings, desires and emotions for Rochester that limit her spiritual development. That leads her leaving the Moor House and returning to the Manor.
Jane is finally freed from her bondage because she realizes that a life with rochester is her best choice, and that a full spiritual life like st. John's is impossible for her. Jane is an 'independent woman' right now because she has been freed from bondage and fully educated in life.The war of education and containment was finally over, and Jane was happy by the way. She thinks that her satisfaction with her life married to Rochester. She said All my confidence is bestowed on him, all his confidence is devoted to me; we are precisely suited in character - perfect concord is the result' (Page 466).
Jane Eyre certainly dose coming of age in this classic novel, from the innocence of childhood to mature adulthood. At the beginning of the story, Jane is a poor lonely girl, she fight the constraints of her upbringing and becomes educated. Jane Eyre certainly dose coming of age in this classic novel, from the innocence of childhood to mature adulthood. At the beginning of the story, Jane is a poor lonely girl, she fight the constraints of her upbringing and becomes educated. She grow up to a strong and independent woman. She didn't give up. Jane became the epitome of the modern woman that she striking the perfect balance between mind and body she really wanted in life.
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