Jane Eyre PPT-prompt 36 Elizabeth Edwards

The Prompt and Literal Meaning Prompt: Bronte populates the novel with many types of female characters who surround Jane at various points in her life—Georgiana and Eliza Reed, Helen Burns, Blanche Ingram, Ms. Fairfax, Grace Poole, Bertha Mason, Aunt Reed, Miss Temple, Mary and Diana Rivers, and Rosamond Oliver. Choose a few of these female characters and show how comparisons with these characters shape the reader’s understanding of Jane’s character. Do not merely summarize the text. Literal Meaning: analyze at least three character, compare them, and explain how they help the reader to better understand Jane’s character

Mrs. Reed -cruel -main antagonist -dies eventually -resents Jane because of her mothers’ death

Bessie Lee -kind -one of the only people at Gateshead who truly cared about Jane’s well being -maid under the employment of Aunt Reed

Miss Temple -teacher at Lowood that looked out for Jane -did what she could work against Brocklehurst’s injustices -Jane was fond of her

How the topic relates to the novel Connects some female characters to the protagonist Learn more about Jane through comparing characters that surround her

Quotes for comparison Bessie Lee “When thus gentle, Bessie Lee seemed to me the best, prettiest, kindest being in the world; and I wished so intensely that she would always be so pleasant and amiable, and never push me out, or scold, or task me unreasonably, as she was too often won’t do.” (25) Aunt Reed “I will never come to see you when I grow up; and if anyone asks me how I liked you, and how you treated me, I will say the very thought of you makes me sick, and that you treated me with miserable cruelty.” (34) “You think I have no feelings, and that I can do without one bit of love or kindness; but I cannot live so: and you have no pity.” (34) Miss Temple “Miss Temple is full of goodness: it pains her to be severe to anyone, even the worst in the school… she sees my errors and tells me of them gently; and if I do anything worthy of praise, she gives me my meed liberally.” (56)

Literary Devices Denotation “I must be responsible for the circumstance, sir,” replied Miss Temple: “the breakfast was so ill-prepared that the pupils could not possibly eat it; and I dared not allow them to remain fasting until dinner-time “ (63) Polysyndeton “But unimpressionable natures are not so soon softened, nor are natural antipathies so easily eradicated.” (247) Synechdoche “Yes, Mrs. Reed, to you I owe some fearful pangs of mental suffering. But I ought to forgive you, for you knew not what you did: while rendering my heart-strings, you thought you were only uprooting my bad propensities.” (13)

Key Components to Jane’s Oddysey Gateshead -getting locked in The Red Room -Kindness from Bessie Lee -Cruelty from Aunt Reed Lowood -becoming a teacher Thornfield -fell in love with Mr. Rochester -Thornfield burned down Ferdean -Rochester became a better person -Jane and Mr. Rochester got married -friendship with Helen Burns

Additional Prompt Select a single pivotal moment in the psychological or moral development of the protagonist of a Jane Eyre. Then analyze how that single moment shapes the meaning of the work as a whole. Jane’s forgiveness of Mrs. Reed was a pivotal moment in Jane Eyre’s moral development In the beginning of the novel Jane was determined to never forgive Reed for her wrong doings and her heart was set on revenge. The fact that she forgave Aunt Reed contributes to a theme of forgiveness in the novel.

Significant Moments Jane’s attendance at Lowood Jane finding out about Bertha. At Lowood she met Helen, became a teacher, and experienced life outside of Gateshead When Jane found out about Bert6ha she showed that she had a backbone by cancelling the wedding. This showed one of her morals.

Works Cited Brontë, Charlotte. Jane Eyre. Bantam Dell, 1987. Google Images