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Jane Eyre

Jane Eyre. Stephanie Walker Justus Ross. Prompt.

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Jane Eyre

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  1. Jane Eyre Stephanie Walker Justus Ross

  2. Prompt • 59. A recurring theme is the classic war between a passion and responsibility. Personal cause, a love, a desire for revenge, a determination for some other emotion or drive may conflict with the literary work. In a well written essay show clearly the nature of the conflict, its effects upon the character, and its significance to the work.

  3. Literal Meaning • The prompts literal meaning is that Jane has to make decisions throughout the novel in which she must decide to choose what she is passionate for or what the responsible thing is to do Passion Responsibility Vs.

  4. How it relates • Jane Eyre confronts many moments where she must chose passion or responsibility, some characters confront her with these moments such as the passionate Bertha and the cold St. John.

  5. How it relates • This idea is shown in Jane’s First explosion when she rebels against John Reed, Jane is Powerfully Passionate, just as Bertha’s passion destroys thronfield, Jane’s passion which destroys Gateshead, leads the way clear for her progression to her new life in lowood.

  6. Pivotal Moment • For example, in the scene where Charlotte almost marries Rochester, Jane cannot “see god for his creature” of whom she has “made an idol”; we can see that Jane (“creature”) is losing site of Charlotte (“god”) through the passion for Mr. Rochester, she runs the risk of losing herself. In this case passion nearly had a victory over reason.

  7. “I can live alone, if self-respect, and circumstances require me so to do. I need not sell my soul to buy bliss. I have an inward treasure born with me, which can keep me alive if all extraneous delights should be withheld, or offered only at a price I cannot afford to give.”

  8. Pivotal Moment • The opposite is true when Jane is tempted to marry St. John. She “longs to rush down the torrent of his will into the gulf of his existence, and there to lose my own”, Jane once again almost loses herself; in this case reason is nearly the victor. Jane's passion is nearly entrapped by St. Johns reason and control.

  9. Pivotal Moment • Brocklehurst uses the philosophy of mortification of the flesh as a way for Jane to obtain balance between Passion and Reason. By crushing her physical body, he hopes to burn excess passion out of her.

  10. Sources • www. Victorianweb.com

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