https://padlet.com/zshively20211_1/vsqvw2fg4qrmu0y en-us 2021-02-12 16:49:55 UTC 2024-05-25 15:49:22 UTC hello@padlet.com zshively20211_1 https://padlet.com/zshively20211_1/vsqvw2fg4qrmu0y/wish/1197283127 2021-02-12 16:50:56 UTC https://padlet.com/zshively20211_1/vsqvw2fg4qrmu0y/wish/1197283127 zshively20211_1 https://padlet.com/zshively20211_1/vsqvw2fg4qrmu0y/wish/1197292342 While reading other people's blogs, I really find it interesting how other's decided to relate the character of Jane Eyre to other characters in media. By reading and analyzing the character of Jane Eyre, I can see that she is very honest and blunt about things. Jane is constantly confronting many individuals who threaten her autonomy, but she is always able to assert herself using justice and always doing what she believes to be the right thing. Jane Eyre is also fiercely independent and doesn't like to back down from those who doubt her goals. 


The character I think is similar to Jane Eyre is Toph Beifong from Avatar: The Last Airbender. Like Eyre, Beifong always struggled with people thinking she was helpless and people just wanting to take care of her, not considering that she could take care of herself.
Not only did people underestimate Toph because she was a little girl, but also because she was blind. What other's saw as a weakness, Toph used it to her advantage, and was able to use her unique form of being able to see with her feet to be able to out best those who tried taking advantage of or attacking her. While Jane Eyre's parents died 
when she was little, Toph ran away when she felt that her parents were holding her back and were not treating her as an equal. Also just like Eyre, Toph breaks the stereotypes of women in so many different ways. Toph is a prevalent tomboy, she isn't quiet, does not like to take no for an answer, and is unapologetic and honest. This article below also explains Toph Beifong's character very well and how she is a very well written strong independent character.]]> 2021-02-12 16:52:44 UTC https://padlet.com/zshively20211_1/vsqvw2fg4qrmu0y/wish/1197292342 zshively20211_1 https://padlet.com/zshively20211_1/vsqvw2fg4qrmu0y/wish/1197296862 2021-02-12 16:53:40 UTC https://padlet.com/zshively20211_1/vsqvw2fg4qrmu0y/wish/1197296862 zshively20211_1 https://padlet.com/zshively20211_1/vsqvw2fg4qrmu0y/wish/1232192710 Chapter 11 has a heavy theme of gender roles within it's text. When Jane Eyre goes to the Thornfield Hall, she meets a nice elderly lady named Mrs. Fairfax, who leads her through the house to her bedroom. At first, it is assumed that Mrs. Fairfax is the owner of the property. It shows her cleaning and taking care of the house as if it is her own. But then it is revealed that instead of being the owner of the property, she is actually the house keeper. It turns out Mr. Rochester is actually the owner of the house but only shows up every once in a while. Mrs. Fairfax regards Mr. Rochester as the "master" of the property. This is a social look at how it was seen in society that women had to look up to their "masters" and could not own their own property. "Mr. Rochester, as he sat in his damask-covered chair, looked different to what I had seen him look before—not quite so stern; much less gloomy. There was a smile on his lips, and his eyes sparkled, whether with wine or not, I am not sure, but I think it very probable. He was…more expanded and genial, and also more self-indulgent, than the frigid and rigid temper of the morning; still, he looked preciously grim, cushioning his massive head against the swelling back of his chair, and receiving the light of the fire on his granite-hewn features, and in his great, dark eyes."]]> 2021-02-23 16:09:20 UTC https://padlet.com/zshively20211_1/vsqvw2fg4qrmu0y/wish/1232192710 zshively20211_1 https://padlet.com/zshively20211_1/vsqvw2fg4qrmu0y/wish/1232558777 The Thornfield Hall seems to have some supernatural qualities about it. As they are traveling around the property, they keep on hearing strange, maniacal laughter near where the roof is. Mrs. Fairfax blames the noise on the servant Grace Poole, a seamstress who is scolded by Mrs. Fairfax and reminded to "remember directions." This is a red flag to me that Grace is not treated well by the people she works for and is taught not to question things and just to do the same thing every day. “You have saved my life; I have a pleasure in owing you so immense a debt. I cannot say more. Nothing else that has being would have been tolerable to me in the character of creditor for such an obligation; but you, is different—I feel your benefits no burden, Jane…I knew…you would do me good in some way at some time; I saw it in your eyes when I first beheld you”]]> 2021-02-23 17:11:08 UTC https://padlet.com/zshively20211_1/vsqvw2fg4qrmu0y/wish/1232558777 zshively20211_1 https://padlet.com/zshively20211_1/vsqvw2fg4qrmu0y/wish/1316470625 In Chapter 27 Eyre is in Thornfield. She gets there after falling asleep for a while. When she comes out of her room in the house, she sees Rochester sitting in a chair. Rochester begins to beg for forgiveness, claiming he never meant to hurt her. Eyre confides to the reader that she forgave him on the spot. He offers for her to move with him to the South of France, where they will live together as husband and wife. Because Eyre does not want to spend her days as a wife to Rochester, she uses the excuse that she can be no more than a mistress to him with Bertha still in the picture. It is revealed in this chapter that Bertha's mother is in an insane asylum. Rochester found himself alone after his father and brother's death, alone with a madwomen and bucket loads of cash. He considered ending his own life, but left himself alone when he found purpose in being married to Eyre. This is an example of emotional abuse and manipulation found throughout Jane Eyre and Rochester's relationship throughout the book.]]> 2021-03-16 15:59:53 UTC https://padlet.com/zshively20211_1/vsqvw2fg4qrmu0y/wish/1316470625 zshively20211_1 https://padlet.com/zshively20211_1/vsqvw2fg4qrmu0y/wish/1316508679 Chapter 28 is interesting to me because it heavily involves the idea of prayer. While she is stuck begging for food and for jobs in the nearby town, she  always stops to pray. This plays into her character trait of always keeping her faith, and it seems to help her push on even through the hardest of times. She meets two young women studying German in a shop. When she finds Hannah and she at first refuses to let her in, she pleads, “I can but die, and I believe in God. Let me try to wait His will in silence.” This also plays into the religious side of her personality. This catches the eye of St. John, and he responds with, “All men must die, but all are not condemned to meet a lingering and premature doom, such as yours would be if you perished here of want.” I think the point of this is that this place had potential meaning to bring to Eyre's life, as religon is something she deeply cares about as well as this new community she had found. It is something she can relate too.]]> 2021-03-16 16:05:56 UTC https://padlet.com/zshively20211_1/vsqvw2fg4qrmu0y/wish/1316508679 zshively20211_1 https://padlet.com/zshively20211_1/vsqvw2fg4qrmu0y/wish/1351280154 Chapter 20 is an intense chapter and I find it to be one of my favorites. Jane gets woken up when she hears a cry for help. When she runs out to the hall, Rochester brushes it off as just being a nightmare. He then proceeds to ask her if she is afraid of blood. Confused, Jane asks him why. He asks her to help Mr. Mason, who had been stabbed in the arm. Continued used of Religion is used, as Jane gazes across an image of Christ and his disciples on the counter top. Later, Rochester tells Jane a hypothetical story about a young man who commits "capital error" in an outside country and leads the man to a dishonest life in search of "relief." I think Rochester is using this story to refer to Jane Eyre, as a means to try to dissuade her from trying to leave and find more freedom, as characterized simply as "relief."]]> 2021-03-25 05:12:10 UTC https://padlet.com/zshively20211_1/vsqvw2fg4qrmu0y/wish/1351280154 zshively20211_1 https://padlet.com/zshively20211_1/vsqvw2fg4qrmu0y/wish/1351320335 Chapter 23 really caught me off guard. Jane asks Rochester to marry her! After a "blissful" two weeks, Rochester invites Jane to walk around the gardens. Rochester confides in Jane that he has decided to marry Blanche Ingram. Jane is shocked and saddened at the potential distance between Ireland and Thornfield. Rochester tells Jane that he feels connected to her through a "chord of communication." Jane says she was "obliged to yield," as she confessed her love to Rochester. To her surprise, Rochester asks her to be his wife. She is mad at first, thinking he is teasing her. Rochester admits he made up marring Ingram in order to stir jealousy from Jane. She still accepts to request despite the manipulation. This plays into how Rochester will do anything to get her to marry him, and has used mental abuse and manipulation to get her to give up her freedoms and submit to him.]]> 2021-03-25 05:30:59 UTC https://padlet.com/zshively20211_1/vsqvw2fg4qrmu0y/wish/1351320335 zshively20211_1 https://padlet.com/zshively20211_1/vsqvw2fg4qrmu0y/wish/1351334955 At the beginning of chapter 34, Jane is closing her school for Christmas and his saying goodbye to her cousins. Diana and May visit and love Jane's improvements to the school. St. John asks Jane to give up learning German and come with him to learn "Hindustani," in preparation to his missionary work where he has to go and preach Christianity in India. He has had control over Jane throughout the novel, and at first Jane accepts. When he asks her to marry him, she finally stands up for herself and refused the offer. St. John is outraged, stating the fact she is refusing his offer means that she is also throwing away her faith in Christianity. This is used for the themes of people using religion to gain control over others. It also shows Eyre's character growth through her finally not letting St. John make decision for her. She is changing from a bird trapped in a cage into a bird soaring through the sky.]]> 2021-03-25 05:38:34 UTC https://padlet.com/zshively20211_1/vsqvw2fg4qrmu0y/wish/1351334955 zshively20211_1 https://padlet.com/zshively20211_1/vsqvw2fg4qrmu0y/wish/1351351911 Critics have been heavily talking about the ending of Jane Eyre for a long time. The ending chapter seems to suggest that the only route for women to find happiness is through marriage. It seems that through returning to Rochester, Jane is sacrificing her free-will and independence. Another way of looking at it is that she really did not sacrifice everything, but instead enters a type of relationship in which giving and receiving is equally distributed between the two. This makes sense, because Jane willingly rejected another marriage opportunity before marrying Rochester. I think that in a way, Jane is being true to herself through marrying Rochester, as a very true passion of hers is forming relationships with other. So, in a weird way, she is being free and true to herself by giving her time to another person in her life. ]]> 2021-03-25 05:47:03 UTC https://padlet.com/zshively20211_1/vsqvw2fg4qrmu0y/wish/1351351911