How do the threads of isolation and cruelty weave themselves into the story? How does Jane react? Does the quote, "You can learn as much from a bad example as a good example" apply in Jan'es case?
Isolation and cruelty are critical to the development of this story. Jane has always felt she is isolated from most other human beings because her aunt pushed her away as a young child and thus she believed herself to be unlovable, so instead of trying to open her heart out to others, she keeps to herself so as not to get hurt. Jane's reaction to the cruelty and isolation given by her aunt, is at first to hide away and try to disappear inside her own world, but once she stands up to her aunt, I think she learns, that just because her aunt tells her something, doesn't mean it is true and she should figure out what she believes in based on her own observations. I believe the quote applies to Jane because since she knows what it feels like to be treated so cruelly, she will never treat another person the same way.
Well one of the most prominent examples of isolation in this story would be just the mere fact that these girls at Lowood do not interact with anyone that is not at Lowood. With the exception of church—which I personally wouldn’t guess is social activity for them—the girls never leave Lowood’s premises. Cruelty has presented itself in many instances in the story beginning with Jane’s cruelty to her and ending with the teachers’ cruelty to Helen Burns. I would even go as far to say that if there were another degree higher than “cruelty”, the novel has attained such a level. It is beyond cruel to nearly starve children and deprive them of the love and affection that they desire. It is beyond cruel to send children outside and have them stand in the rain all day! However Jane’s reaction to all this is becoming more and more mature. In the beginning of the novel such injustice made her spew off on her aunt. However at this point in the story she is learning to instead take the cruelties—cry about them—and continue to move in stride. The quote, "You can learn as much from a bad example as a good example" definitely applies in Jane’s case. Simply put she is learning from bad examples that what doesn’t kill her is indeed making her a stronger person—spiritually, mentally, and emotionally.
Cruelty and isolation in Jane Eyre are in correlation with each other. When cruelty is forced upon Jane, her response is to grdually continue to isolate herself from the humans and the world around her in order to cope and accept the cruelty that she is being dealt. The cruelty of life taking away her parents has led her to be isolated by the family she now lives with and in turn she made the isolation a part of her character. When she starts attending Lowood she endures cruelty and humiliation from a teacher because she was deemed a liar. In response, she takes the cruelty, but instead of isolating herself physically, she does it emotionally. In this case, the quote does apply to Jane's case. Jane may not understand fully why these things happen to her, but she does learn from them. She learns that in order to endure life, she must take the cruelty, learn from it, and move on and not allow it to define her life.
Isolation and cruelty weave themselves into the story because Jane feels alone and is alone isolation in her Aunt's home because of se is unwelcome. Her Aunt treats her horribly because she never wanted to keep her in the first place. John believes that since his mother dislikes her, he can get away with cruelty towards her, which turns out to true.
"You can learn as much from a bad experience as you can from a good one" definitely applies in Jane's case. She can either summit to the abuse and abuse people around her or overcome it to better herself. All it takes is willpower.
Jane reacts to the abuse by separating herself from them and surrounding herself in books.
Isolation and cruelty are critical aspects of the novel Jane Eyre. As a young girl growing up without her parents, Jane is constantly isolated from the closest thing that she can call a family. Mrs. Reed is reluctant to have Jane in her care and treats her as though she is a disgusting brat. Jane thus becomes accustomed to solitude and tends to hide away from the world, often behind a good book. Even when she is sent to Lowood, she remains in isolation because she is clueless to what is happening in the outside world. Eventually, she tires of being behind Lowood walls when the one teacher who made Lowood so wonderful leaves (Miss Temple). Jane finally seeks something knew in her life and looks for a job elsewhere. Indeed, the quote, "you can learn as much from a bad example as a good example," does apply in Jane's case. Jane learned a great deal about character from both Mrs. Reed and Helen Burns. Mrs. Reed's poor treatment of Jane taught her how to stand up for herself, but Helen Burn's kind, Christian words reminded Helen not to be vengeful.
From her upbringing and all the bad examples of adults in her life, she can learn exactly what not to do when she becomes an adult. Helen was a good example for Jane becasue of her untemormental and patient nature. It could help her avoid getting punished, and help her with how to deal with situations later in life. It's a non-confrontational way to deal with life, which for Jane, may be the best option.
Cruelty and isolation plays a huge part throughout the novel. Jane constantly feels isolated, lonely from others; mostly affected by the harsh treatment by her own family(aunt and cousins) during Jane's childhood. Being treated cruel causes Jane to build a wall and push herself away from friends, love, and the enjoyment of being a child. As Jane grows maturely, she realizes that she has to live life for herself; causing her to stand up to her aunt for the first time. The quote applies to Jane because she grows up experiencing and learning from bad examples which makes her a stronger person for herself as well as her loves ones in the future.
Jane's experience of cruelty and isolation are part of what defines her as a human being. Since she was abused by her family, she was a shy and emotional little girl. However, when she formed a bond with Helen, she realized that there is love for everyone. As she grew older, she believed how special life is. In Jane's case, she learned from both a bad example (abuse) and a good example (friendship).
Isolation and cruelty play principal roles in Jane Eyre's life. No matter where she goes, she encounters the two. Isolation and cruelty have a love/hate relationship with Jane. They weave their way through the plot by accompanying one another wherever they go. When Jane seeks isolation, she finds cruelty is not far behind. For example, when Jane hides herself behind the curtain at the Reed's home for a few minutes of isolation so she can enjoy her book, cruelty shows its face moments later. It is inevitable. John Reed voliently hurdles a book towards her head. Poor Jane has done nothing to deserve this, but as she seeks isolation, cruelty is unavoidable..
Jane does not neccesarily seek isolation in every case, but it seems to find its way to her. When Jane makes a new friend, or finds herself in a comfortable place, it is soon taken from her. At this point it becomes understood that isolation and cruelty are Jane's impending and inexorable fate. She can't avoid them, no matter how hard she tries.
The quote, "You can learn as much from a bad example as a good example" applies to Jane Eyre, because she learns from her frightening and unfair childhood to become a better person and to never let the mistakes of those who raised her to conflict with her adult personality. She uses her past to better herself. For her, it is an example of what she should NOT do in order to grow and mature as a person.
Isolation and Cruelty are both bouncing off of eachother. They correspond almost perfectly. See when jane finally gets to be in a place where she can trust and be with someone in a close manner she realizes what love really is. Like usual it is always taken from her. The quote comes into play because as it says "You can learn as much from a bad example as a good example" she learned that the people who treated her so wrong taught her deeply that those were individuals that did not have any affection for her, but once she inhailed real love there was nothing else like it.
In Jane's case the isolation and cruelty inflicted upon her have made her a better person. Further on in the book while Mr. Rochester sees Adele as an inconvenience where as Jane cares for Adele and does not want Adele to feel as detached from a family as she was in her childhood.
For Jane as soon as her uncle dies she begans to isolate her self due to the cruel treatment distributed upon her and she first reacts by holding in everything but after having had enough she began standing up to her aunt. The quote applies to Jane because now that she sees how it feels to be treated badly she will know not to treat others like that.
Isolation and cruelty are major things that occurred in Jane's life. Her auntie was cruel to her in every way she could be and she isolated Jane whenever she felt the need to do so. Jane was effected negatively by these treatments because she was young and couldn't care for herself, but when she got older and a few people started to lean towards her side, she was able to act positively towards all the negative events that she went through in her childhood.
The quote applies to Jane's life because she was basically made out of a bad example her whole childhood. When she became older and more mature, she was made into a good example because she learned how to stand up for herself, love herself, and care for herself when nobody else would.
Isolation and cruelty happened all throughout of Jane's life from the way her aunt treated her to how she was treated when she finally went to school. This negative treatment influenced Jane and people got to see how she really is after they got to know her. The quote applies to Jane's life because she overcame the negative influence of her aunt and other people who treated her badly.
Isolation is very important through outJAnes life she has been isolated from almost everyone starting at a young age with her family to even at her school being singled out as a liar. This plays a major part because even though these bad influences and experiences happened she didn't let it effect her she worked hard to do wat she had to do so she wasn't going to let anything stop her at all. Learning from good experience is good but learning from bad expediences is better because u you would know what no to do again. Since Jane felt hurt by all of her bad expediences she strive to be better and do better so others she treated wouldn't feel that way
Isolation and cruelty are critical to the development of this story. Jane has always felt she is isolated from most other human beings because her aunt pushed her away as a young child and thus she believed herself to be unlovable, so instead of trying to open her heart out to others, she keeps to herself so as not to get hurt. Jane's reaction to the cruelty and isolation given by her aunt, is at first to hide away and try to disappear inside her own world, but once she stands up to her aunt, I think she learns, that just because her aunt tells her something, doesn't mean it is true and she should figure out what she believes in based on her own observations. I believe the quote applies to Jane because since she knows what it feels like to be treated so cruelly, she will never treat another person the same way.
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Well one of the most prominent examples of isolation in this story would be just the mere fact that these girls at Lowood do not interact with anyone that is not at Lowood. With the exception of church—which I personally wouldn’t guess is social activity for them—the girls never leave Lowood’s premises. Cruelty has presented itself in many instances in the story beginning with Jane’s cruelty to her and ending with the teachers’ cruelty to Helen Burns. I would even go as far to say that if there were another degree higher than “cruelty”, the novel has attained such a level. It is beyond cruel to nearly starve children and deprive them of the love and affection that they desire. It is beyond cruel to send children outside and have them stand in the rain all day! However Jane’s reaction to all this is becoming more and more mature. In the beginning of the novel such injustice made her spew off on her aunt. However at this point in the story she is learning to instead take the cruelties—cry about them—and continue to move in stride. The quote, "You can learn as much from a bad example as a good example" definitely applies in Jane’s case. Simply put she is learning from bad examples that what doesn’t kill her is indeed making her a stronger person—spiritually, mentally, and emotionally.
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Cruelty and isolation in Jane Eyre are in correlation with each other. When cruelty is forced upon Jane, her response is to grdually continue to isolate herself from the humans and the world around her in order to cope and accept the cruelty that she is being dealt. The cruelty of life taking away her parents has led her to be isolated by the family she now lives with and in turn she made the isolation a part of her character. When she starts attending Lowood she endures cruelty and humiliation from a teacher because she was deemed a liar. In response, she takes the cruelty, but instead of isolating herself physically, she does it emotionally. In this case, the quote does apply to Jane's case. Jane may not understand fully why these things happen to her, but she does learn from them. She learns that in order to endure life, she must take the cruelty, learn from it, and move on and not allow it to define her life.
ReplyDeleteIsolation and cruelty weave themselves into the story because Jane feels alone and is alone isolation in her Aunt's home because of se is unwelcome. Her Aunt treats her horribly because she never wanted to keep her in the first place. John believes that since his mother dislikes her, he can get away with cruelty towards her, which turns out to true.
ReplyDelete"You can learn as much from a bad experience as you can from a good one" definitely applies in Jane's case. She can either summit to the abuse and abuse people around her or overcome it to better herself. All it takes is willpower.
Jane reacts to the abuse by separating herself from them and surrounding herself in books.
Isolation and cruelty are critical aspects of the novel Jane Eyre. As a young girl growing up without her parents, Jane is constantly isolated from the closest thing that she can call a family. Mrs. Reed is reluctant to have Jane in her care and treats her as though she is a disgusting brat. Jane thus becomes accustomed to solitude and tends to hide away from the world, often behind a good book. Even when she is sent to Lowood, she remains in isolation because she is clueless to what is happening in the outside world. Eventually, she tires of being behind Lowood walls when the one teacher who made Lowood so wonderful leaves (Miss Temple). Jane finally seeks something knew in her life and looks for a job elsewhere. Indeed, the quote, "you can learn as much from a bad example as a good example," does apply in Jane's case. Jane learned a great deal about character from both Mrs. Reed and Helen Burns. Mrs. Reed's poor treatment of Jane taught her how to stand up for herself, but Helen Burn's kind, Christian words reminded Helen not to be vengeful.
ReplyDeleteFrom her upbringing and all the bad examples of adults in her life, she can learn exactly what not to do when she becomes an adult. Helen was a good example for Jane becasue of her untemormental and patient nature. It could help her avoid getting punished, and help her with how to deal with situations later in life. It's a non-confrontational way to deal with life, which for Jane, may be the best option.
ReplyDeleteCruelty and isolation plays a huge part throughout the novel. Jane constantly feels isolated, lonely from others; mostly affected by the harsh treatment by her own family(aunt and cousins) during Jane's childhood. Being treated cruel causes Jane to build a wall and push herself away from friends, love, and the enjoyment of being a child. As Jane grows maturely, she realizes that she has to live life for herself; causing her to stand up to her aunt for the first time. The quote applies to Jane because she grows up experiencing and learning from bad examples which makes her a stronger person for herself as well as her loves ones in the future.
ReplyDeleteJane's experience of cruelty and isolation are part of what defines her as a human being. Since she was abused by her family, she was a shy and emotional little girl. However, when she formed a bond with Helen, she realized that there is love for everyone. As she grew older, she believed how special life is.
ReplyDeleteIn Jane's case, she learned from both a bad example (abuse) and a good example (friendship).
Isolation and cruelty play principal roles in Jane Eyre's life. No matter where she goes, she encounters the two. Isolation and cruelty have a love/hate relationship with Jane. They weave their way through the plot by accompanying one another wherever they go. When Jane seeks isolation, she finds cruelty is not far behind. For example, when Jane hides herself behind the curtain at the Reed's home for a few minutes of isolation so she can enjoy her book, cruelty shows its face moments later. It is inevitable. John Reed voliently hurdles a book towards her head. Poor Jane has done nothing to deserve this, but as she seeks isolation, cruelty is unavoidable..
ReplyDeleteJane does not neccesarily seek isolation in every case, but it seems to find its way to her. When Jane makes a new friend, or finds herself in a comfortable place, it is soon taken from her. At this point it becomes understood that isolation and cruelty are Jane's impending and inexorable fate. She can't avoid them, no matter how hard she tries.
The quote, "You can learn as much from a bad example as a good example" applies to Jane Eyre, because she learns from her frightening and unfair childhood to become a better person and to never let the mistakes of those who raised her to conflict with her adult personality. She uses her past to better herself. For her, it is an example of what she should NOT do in order to grow and mature as a person.
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Isolation and Cruelty are both bouncing off of eachother. They correspond almost perfectly. See when jane finally gets to be in a place where she can trust and be with someone in a close manner she realizes what love really is. Like usual it is always taken from her. The quote comes into play because as it says "You can learn as much from a bad example as a good example" she learned that the people who treated her so wrong taught her deeply that those were individuals that did not have any affection for her, but once she inhailed real love there was nothing else like it.
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In Jane's case the isolation and cruelty inflicted upon her have made her a better person. Further on in the book while Mr. Rochester sees Adele as an inconvenience where as Jane cares for Adele and does not want Adele to feel as detached from a family as she was in her childhood.
ReplyDeleteFor Jane as soon as her uncle dies she begans to isolate her self due to the cruel treatment distributed upon her and she first reacts by holding in everything but after having had enough she began standing up to her aunt. The quote applies to Jane because now that she sees how it feels to be treated badly she will know not to treat others like that.
ReplyDeleteIsolation and cruelty are major things that occurred in Jane's life. Her auntie was cruel to her in every way she could be and she isolated Jane whenever she felt the need to do so. Jane was effected negatively by these treatments because she was young and couldn't care for herself, but when she got older and a few people started to lean towards her side, she was able to act positively towards all the negative events that she went through in her childhood.
ReplyDeleteThe quote applies to Jane's life because she was basically made out of a bad example her whole childhood. When she became older and more mature, she was made into a good example because she learned how to stand up for herself, love herself, and care for herself when nobody else would.
Isolation and cruelty happened all throughout of Jane's life from the way her aunt treated her to how she was treated when she finally went to school. This negative treatment influenced Jane and people got to see how she really is after they got to know her. The quote applies to Jane's life because she overcame the negative influence of her aunt and other people who treated her badly.
ReplyDeleteIsolation is very important through outJAnes life she has been isolated from almost everyone starting at a young age with her family to even at her school being singled out as a liar. This plays a major part because even though these bad influences and experiences happened she didn't let it effect her she worked hard to do wat she had to do so she wasn't going to let anything stop her at all. Learning from good experience is good but learning from bad expediences is better because u you would know what no to do again. Since Jane felt hurt by all of her bad expediences she strive to be better and do better so others she treated wouldn't feel that way
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