Jane Eyre Revision 1

Jane Eyre Revision 1

  • Submitted By: fiorellaanda
  • Date Submitted: 09/22/2013 11:02 AM
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Fiorella Anda
9/14/13
2nd period
Outline for Jane Eyre Essay

THESIS:
The sense of entrapment and enclosure in Bronte’s Jane Eyre is central to the development of Jane throughout the novel. This symbol ultimately reveals the ability Jane has of overcoming this recurring theme of being shut away and the obstacles that are thrown at her in a Victorian time.

Main point of body paragraph 1:
Having no real biological family makes it difficult for Jane to grow and is a part of her internal struggle of finding a true identity.

First textual example to support point of body par. 1:
“Take her away to the red-room, and lock her in there…What shocking conduct, Miss Eyre, to strike a young gentleman, your benefactress’s son! Your young master” (4-5).

Explanation of how this example supports the main point of body paragraph 1:
From a start, it is evident that she is not loved in the Reed household, for they are not her true family. It serves as an impediment for Jane because she is confused as to the way she is being treated at such a young age. Instead of it being just some sort of a sibling rivalry, it’s beyond that. She is punished in the Red Room for protecting herself from someone who is “above her” in a way (John Reed), which makes her feel unloved and imprisoned. Jane is trapped in the home of individuals that don’t accept or respect her.

Second textual example to support point of body par. 1:
"This I learned from her benefactress; from the pious and charitable lady who adopted her in her orphan state, reared her as her own daughter, and whose kindness, whose generosity the unhappy girl repaid by an ingratitude so bad, so dreadful, that at last her excellent patroness was obliged to separate her from her own young ones, fearful lest her vicious example should contaminate their purity…”(49).

Explanation of how this example supports the main point of body paragraph 1:
Jane is...

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