Reader, I married him.(457)
The above words were destined to be uttered by Jane Eyre according to what I think is Charlotte Bronte's view on life in her novel Jane Eyre. Charlotte Bronte seems to have an attitude of pre-determination for everything that happens in life. She shows this by showing all the obstacles, hindrances, and burdens that tried to stop Jane and Rochester from ending up together, and in the end non of these factors were able to stop their love for each other from pravailing. Society tried to stop these two character's love by threatening to judge her of only wanting to move up in social status by marrying Rochester. Rochester's secrets and finally Bertha Mason tried to stop these lives from being together for the rest of their lives and were actually successful for a while but this success was not enough. St. John also tried to change Jane's destiny from being that of ending up with Mr. Rochester to being that of ending up with him but was also unsuccessful. Finally the biggest factor that wanted to put an end to this predetermined marriage was Jane Eyre herself. She tried to run away and forget her whole experience at Thornfield Hall and to tear Edward Rochester from her heart. She wanted to start a new and different life away from him, but destiny didn't let her spend her life without him. This is an example how free will did not determined how Jane ended up. All these factors only delayed her destiny from realizing itself but never stopped it. In my personal opinion, this is undoubtful evidence of Charlotte Bronte's belief of a pre-determined destiny rather than a life of free will and choice of ones destiny. The image taken by the Flickr us Apesara shows how life is like rolling a dye; No matter how we decide to role it, we cannot change or know the outcome. Our luck has been pre-determined.
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ReplyDeleteAlthough I disagree with you, this is a great argument. Before I tell you why, I want to thank you for putting that great image which inspired the idea for my blog. Really and truly, I disagree with the fact that you said that Charlotte Brontë is portraying life as pre-determined through Jane. Imagine seeing Charlotte in the 1800's, is she sitting there thinking that all the rapid advancements being made were supposed to be made or would she see people making new machines and some being successful while others not so: basically a gamble? It’s obvious, the second choice is right. Even you yourself may think this subconsciously seeing as you chose an image with dice, which is a common symbol for gambling. Think about it.
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