Please post the classwork from Friday
if you didn´t already turn it in: Exploratory essay (possibly with a thesis at the end) looking at how Jane´s new setting and characters convey a change in mood. (focused on Ch. 11). Remember to read Ch. 12-19 for homework for Monday.
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Jane arrives to Thornfield at night not very apprehensive, but hoping for the best. Her immediate comfort with the location is rather surprising due to her dislike for the curious darkness during which she arrived and nicer things in life (after a violent history with Mrs. Reed and her humble raising at Lowood). One can infer that life will be much better here, refreshing.
Jane earlier also assumed how the owner of the house would be. She had guessed that it would have been Mrs. Fairfax (until later corrected). The young woman predicted a stately, elder woman with much pride becoming of someone with wealth. However, once Jane meets Mrs. Fairfax and her lack in pride/warmth, you see an unaccustomed Jane taken back by this friendliness. This era in her life will be one of different symptoms and feelings unlike the past two others. Her stages so far seem to better themselves with time.
The only contradicting feeling of hope Jane gets is when Mrs. Fairfax is showing her around the house and they happen to walk into the attic and the two women hear a rather evil laugh. It, the laugh, took Jane back to her youth and superstition. She questioned their safety. This seems a foreshadowing of what will happen in her new home. Either it will be something of ghosts or of Grace Poole who was the person who laughed, it gives you sight of what is to come from her comfortable abode.
Thesis: Jane Eyre’s arrival to Thornfield sets a new era to her life where immediate meetings of characters and settings will foreshadow what is to come.
Jane Eyre is a novel in which settings and characters intertwine to create different stages in the heroine’s life. Jane’s life at Gateshead and Lowood presented her with a number of different obstacles to overcome at a very early age. The difficult life she led with the Reeds and the strict traditions of Lowood Institution shaped scarred Jane’s personality forever. Nevertheless when she arrived at Lowood, the environment she perceived and the characters she encountered created a mood of familiarity and stability she had been lacking her entire life. Thornfield Hall represents the beginning of a new and brighter stage in Jane’s life because of setting and characters she met.
The characters and setting of Thornfield Hall conveyed an idea of hope for Jane, but it also reminded her of everything else she had experienced throughout her life. Characters such as Mrs. Fairfax prove to be what Jane expected. She, in particular, communicates feeling of coziness, and stability with the way she received Jane, as expressed in this excerpt: She was occupied in knitting; a large cat sat demurely at her feet; nothing in short was wanting to complete the beau-ideal of domestic comfort. The estate itself was very home-like and inviting for Jane, as she stated in this quote: “I thought that a fairer era o life was beginning for me, one that was to have its flowers and pleasures as well as its thorns and toils”. Almost everything about Jane’s new home appealed to her, but Thornfield Hall also had some areas in which she didn’t feel entirely comfortable, like this quote stated: “A very chill and vault-like air pervaded the stairs and gallery, suggesting cheerless ideas of space and solitude.” Thornfield Hall combines that feeling of safety and stability and the darkness and sadness she has attempted to runaway from during her entire life.
Jane’s coming into adulthood is marked by her step towards a new life in a new place. The previously oppressed Jane flourishes on her first days at Thornfield from the new opportunities that present themselves. She is given the chance to climb out from her cynical shell, and learn to love again. Growing up with a cold hearted Mrs. Reed probably damaged her for the majority of her life, but this new setting with new people gives her a chance to get past her dark past and take a step towards a bright future. From her first moments there, she is greeted by the warm, open arms of Mrs. Fairfax.
Upon her waking that very first morning at Thornfield, Jane herself points out how the glow and warmth of the house lift her spirits “The chamber looked such a bright little place to me as the sun shone….that my spirits rose at the view”. With her whole life ahead of her, all there is to do is hope that Jane ceases the day and takes the opportunities at happiness when she gets them. In the past its has been seen that Jane has a temper. Her anger and frustration has seeped through the cracks on more than one occasion. Her very open rebellion towards Mrs. Reed back at Gateshead was proof of that fact. This flame burning inside her has been a constant reminder of the struggle she had to endure in her past, it is probably an anger that will never die. But now that she is finally in an environment adequate for positive growth, Jane herself hopes for changes to her own personality.
Thesis: Thornfield gives Jane the chance to learn how to grow amongst a family.
As Jane arrives to Thornfield, she is starting sort of another period in her life. The first would have been living with the Reed family, the second at lowood, and now as a governess. Throughout her life, Jane has suffered much because of others. As part of the Reed family, she was treated horribly by Mrs. Reed, who treats her even worse than the servants and makes her feel much inferior than all of her kids. She is constantly called a liar and punished for absurd things. Once she moves to Lowood, she expects her life to change abruptly, but arrives to find out life there is not much easier. Here she meet Helen, who becomes her friend and has an ideal of accepting all suffering calmly. Life at Lowood is very harsh, but then becomes much better as another group takes charge of it.
When Jane moves to Thornfield, she does not expect much, but believes turn out to be very good. As she arrives, she already feels very comfortable and she cant even see much. Ms. Fairfax is waiting for her and Jane believes she is the owner, but later she will find out she is wrong and ms. fairfax is just the housekeeper. Mrs. Fairfax is very nice and welcoming to Jane, which makes her feel as if she was at home. The place alone made her feel at home. All the characters she meets at Thornfield make her feel part of it and is a new beginning for Jane. It is the opportunity for her to "be" her. Jane begins a new chapter in life where all doors are open and where she is welcomed.
Thesis: Thornfield and the characters at Thornfield convey Jane with a feeling of home that opens her an opportunity of revealing who she really is.
Jane always had trouble finding a family that cared for her. They either died or treated her with disregard.now, she has found a place were she is wanted and maybe will stop being so cynicla nad closed. The new house an the new family place a new, brighter settting on jane's life.
The way jane describes the small house in thorn field hall compared to loowood is a more cheerful one. She always thought of lowwod as simple and sad place. Now, she likes thornfield. She fiends it cosy. An example is when she wakes up and descines her room: " The chamber looked auch a bright little place to me as the sun shine in between the gay (jaja) blues chatz..." The use of such as bright and gay(jaja) re a hint of how she is well more willing and liking about this place than any toher that she has ever lived in.
BAsically, she is hoping for the nice treatment she never had.
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