Sunday, December 6, 2009

Life's a Gamble, Have Fun


Las Vegas

As seen on the photograph, Jane's life is, too, a gamble. Through the entire novel we see the cards she is dealt with, and that those cards are not all aces. She is raised by her aunt and lives with her cousins who treat her like Boo Radley, a scapegoat, from To Kill a Mockingbird. Later, they moved her to Lowood Institution where she learned to put her pokerface on and play a better game. She got a better education, to experience more feelings such as the loss of a friend, and eventually even got a career. After bettering herself here, she took her good cards and headed to Thornfield where she will feel greater success and losses. Here at Thornfield, she arrives as a governess, which puts her at the best position she has been in so far, which is still not so great. With Mr. Rochester, her boss and soon to be confusing-roller-coaster husband, she will discover what it feels like to be genuinely loved and to genuinely love someone. Basically, what Charlotte Bronte is telling us through Jane is that life is truly a gamble and you are the only thing that can better it.

3 comments:

  1. Not only does Jane play with the cards she is dealt with. She plays with dealer called "Life." Sometimes the dealer gives her cards that are helpful to her and vice versa. She also plays with other people at this gamble. Bertha Mason, the actual wife of Mr. Rochester, is competing with her to win back Mr. Rochester. Mr. Rochester is also in the gamble. But instead of competing with Jane, he competes with St. John for the hand of Jane. This shows that everyone is involved in the gamble of life.

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  2. Sir Nieto, I completely disagree with your thoughts of Charlotte Bronte trying to portray life as a gamble and that we are the only ones that can better it. In the novel, Jane Eyre is handed everything she needs. Her job, she didn't go off to look for it; It requested her. She didn't go off looking for a man to love because he came to her. And last the fortune she gained, basicly fell out of the sky because she didn't work for it, she inherit it. Charlotte Bronte acted as the supernatural source that gave Jane everything. Jane didn't better her life herself, an outside source did, perhaps destiny.

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  3. Good start on you paper. I concur with you in some ways. Jane did have a rough life, and did experience a lot of pain. She was treated like Boo Radley, but I think that to make a stronger connection you have to provide the reader with a little bit of backgroung information. You don't have to go into a lot of detail, just include how they were both mistreated. The part where I disagree with you is when she gets educated. I don't think she gets educated to express her feeligs, but if you really think she did then explain more. Expand your thoughts a little bit more. Over all you have a great statement, just add more detail.

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