Friday, October 15, 2010
Jane Eyre and The Romantic Movement
Chapter 27 is a great one in many ways. I'm sure you'll want to blog about the moral dilemma Jane faces and the "debate". However, please also take a few minutes to comment on how this chapter adds to our view of Bronte as a writer of the Romantic Movement. Imagination, nature, symbolism, myth, emotion, individualism, the everyday and the exotic - what shows up here?
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I find it so amazing how Ms. Bronte has the ability to make Chapter 27 so life-like. A relationship between two people which later on is devastated by an earlier history of ones lives. Amazingly written chapter, no doubt about it.
ReplyDeleteChapter 27 was great and the use of romanticiasm made`it even better. I think that it had a lot of emotion because of the siuation with Jane and Mr.Rochester and with Janes decision to leave. It may have been a difficult decision for her to make but it made me want to keep reading and hoping that they could be together again, I cant wait to see what happens!
ReplyDeleteI agree, in Jane Eyre, The Romantic Movement's presence is clearly displayed by Chapter 27. For example, Jane's fear of love is shown through her internal conflict deciding whether she leaves Mr. Rochester or not. This emotion is one of the powerful characteristics of the Romantic Movement that is represented. Charlotte Bronte proves throughout the rest of the novel and especially this chapter that she belong to the Romanticism Movement.
ReplyDeleteLike the top three blog authors above, i too agree that in Chapter 27, Charlotte Bronte showed a great example of the Romantic movement by including the difficult decision Jane makes on whether to leave Mr. Rochester or not, even though she surely knows she loves him. Jane evidently shows that she is afraid of love and to feel the emotion of love. This emotion is a very important characteristic of romanticism. I would really like to know what happens to the relationship between Mr. Rochester and Jane after Jane decides to leave.
ReplyDeleteWhere does this idea of "fear of love" come from? Was she afraid of love when she agreed to marry Rochester? Where do you see her fear of love?
ReplyDeleteI think what Kevin is trying to say is that she doesn't have "fear of love" I think its that Jane never experienced love before. As we know from previous chapters, Jane Eyre was not allowed or didn't have the time to explore the outside world or experience what one feels on a daily basis. Before meeting Mr. Rochester Jane experienced stress from work and her aunt and did hard work most of her time, and from that we learned that Jane did not have fun at all in her childhood lives or how to deal with any type of relationship, since from the book Mr. Rochester was probably the only person Jane has experienced love with, not in a sexual way, but in a way to get to know him more.
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