Archetypal+Patterns


 * //Section 1 (pgs. 1-52) #lindsiel96 //**
 * __Situational __**
 * The Unhealable Wound **- Jane suffered an unhealable wound all throughout her childhood in the way that Mrs. Reed treated her, but the one that triggered the most anger was when Mrs. Reed locked her in the red room after scolding her for something she didn’t do. Shortly after, before she left for Lowood, Jane screamed at her, declaring that she would “never call[her] aunt again…never come to see [her],” and that she would say “the very thought of [her] makes [her] sick” (30). Jane feels that she can never forgive Mrs. Reed for her actions, and she never forgot what she did to her, thus the unhealable wound that she carried with her the rest of her life.
 * __Character __****- **
 * The Outcast **- Throughout her childhood at Gateshead, Jane was always viewed as the outcast. Jane said herself that she "was a discord in Gateshead Hall," "was like nobody there," and she "had nothing in harmony with Mrs. Reed or her children" (9). They were constantly leaving her out of everything and blaming her for things that weren't her fault, and they treated her as someone of no worth or importance. Eventually, Mrs. Reed sent her away from Gateshead to live and learn at Lowood Institution, and she completely cut off ties with her.
 * The Platonic Ideal ** - Helen Burns is very much a platonic ideal to Jane during her first couple of years at Lowood. Helen always had a great deal of advice to calm Jane's fiery personality, and she never failed to teach her valuable life lessons. Once, when Jane was telling Helen of her vengeful thoughts, Helen replied by saying that "it is not violence that best overcomes hate---nor vengeance that most certainly heals injury" (50). Helen also taught her to "observe what Christ says, and...make His word [her] rule, and His conduct [her] example" (50). As Jane's friend, she was constantly supplying her with intellectual encouragement through great words of wisdom.

**Ice/Snow** - In several instances, Charlotte Bronte sets the scene as being very cold and icy, giving this section a dark, stiff, raw connotation. For example, when she's leaving for Lowood, she notes that the gravel road was "sodden by a recent thaw," and the winter morning was "raw and chill" (34). This makes sense considering this was a very dreary part of her life.
 * __Symbolic- __**
 * Red **- The 'red room' at Gateshead was very much characterized by emotion, death, sentiment, and anger, which can be tied to the symbolic representation presented by the color red. During Jane's time in the red room, she experienced strong emotions of fear and panic, as she felt that a ghost was moving through her. This was also triggered by her knowledge that her uncle passed away in that room. The emotions she feels are so strong that it causes her to scream out in what Mrs. Abbott called a "dreadful noise" (11). Jane's sentiment and anger also derive from her feelings that she was wrongly punished by Mrs. Reed.
 * Dark ** - The dark setting in the first section of the book sets the mood of chaos in several passages, especially in the scene in the red room. As darkness sets in, Jane's feelings of superstition, fear and panic begin to set in and swell inside of her.


 * //<span style="font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','serif';">Section 2 (pgs. 52-142) #giulid //**
 * __<span style="font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','serif';">Situational __**
 * <span style="font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','serif';">The Fall **<span style="font-family: 'palatino linotype','serif';">- Mr. Brocklehurst visits the school and publicly announces that Jane is a bad child and should not be befriended or talked to and should be watched very closely. Jane’s humiliation leads to her falling to a lower state of being and becoming even more of an outcast. She tries to be good and start off fresh at the school, but Mrs. Reed’s lies cause her problems at school. Mrs. Reed’s lies about Jane cause her to fall into a lower state at Lowood, even though it is only for a short time.


 * __<span style="font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','serif';">Character __****<span style="font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','serif';">- **
 * <span style="font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','serif';">Earth mother- **<span style="font-family: 'palatino linotype','serif';">Miss Temple is the earth mother in this section because after Jane’s humiliation she still comforts her. She takes Jane and Helen to her room, offers them bread, cake, and tea, and allows Jane to tell her side of the story. Miss Temple believes Jane and helps clear her of her accusation. Throughout all the years Jane spends at Lowood, Miss Temple is continually a friend and companion to Jane. Jane is truly upset when Miss Temple leaves because she has been so kind and supportive to Jane.
 * <span style="font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','serif';">Mentor **<span style="font-family: 'palatino linotype','serif';">- In this section Mary Ann Wilson is Jane’s mentor because she tells Jane about the world. Mary Ann is older than Jane and knows more about the world, so Jane loves to sit and ask her many questions, which Mary Ann gladly answers.


 * __<span style="font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','serif';">Symbolic- __**
 * <span style="font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','serif';">Dark **<span style="font-family: 'palatino linotype','serif';">- Dark represents chaos. While Jane is in bed alone in the dark, she is surrounded by the chaos of the event in Mr. Rochester's room. There is darkness, and chaos, all around her yet she is unaware of it. Also she later learns that she is being left in the dark, or out of the chaos, about what is going on at Thornfield. She overhears the women talking about Grace Poole's salary and suspects there is a mystery at Thornfield that she is being excluded from.
 * <span style="font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','serif';">Mountains- **<span style="font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','serif';"> Mountains represent ambition and goals. In this section Jane sits and stares out of her window at the mountains that are behind Lowood. She wishes she could follow the path of the mountain further than she can see. This represents her ambition and hope to get away from Lowood and start a new life somewhere else. Her goals are to go and find out about all the other things there are in life. She tells us how the mountain’s peaks are blue, and blue represents clear, thinking, and truth. As she sits and thinks about her goals and dreams she is able to think clearly and thoroughly. When she does this, she finds out about what she truly wants to do and comes up with a way to make it happen.


 * //<span style="font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','serif';">Section 3 (pgs. 142-234) #Bonnie //**
 * __<span style="font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','serif';">Situational __**
 * <span style="font-family: 'palatino linotype','serif';">"The Task"- **<span style="font-family: 'palatino linotype','serif';">In this section Jane sends an ad to the newspaper in order to get her new job as a governess. This is a simple task that is necessary for her to begin her new life.

<span style="font-family: 'palatino linotype','serif';">Grace is an isolated and dark figure in this section. Her laugh is described as 'demonic' and Jane is always very wary of her because of her strange and ominous presence. Jane suspects Grace of attempting to murder Mr. Rochester. <span style="font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','serif';">Mr. Brocklehurst illustrates the dangers and hypocrisies that Charlotte Bronte perceived in the nineteenth-century Evangelical movement. Mr. Brocklehurst adopts the rhetoric of Evangelicalism when he claims to be purging his students of pride, but his method of subjecting them to various privations and humiliations, like when he orders that the naturally curly hair of one of Jane’s classmates be cut so as to lie straight, is entirely un-Christian. Of course, Brocklehurst’s proscriptions are difficult to follow, and his hypocritical support of his own luxuriously wealthy family at the expense of the Lowood students shows Bronte’s wariness of the Evangelical movement. Helen Burns’s meek and forbearing mode of Christianity, on the other hand, is too passive for Jane to adopt as her own, although she loves and admires Helen for it.
 * __<span style="font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','serif';">Character __**
 * <span style="font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','serif';">"Devil Figure" **<span style="font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','serif';"> Grace Pool
 * <span style="font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','serif';">"Evil figure with a good heart"- **<span style="font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','serif';">Mr. Rochester has a very hard exterior and is initially Jane sees him as a hard and unloving. It isn’t until later that she sees his real self, which is deep and complicated and loving.
 * <span style="font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','serif';">"The 'Good' Christian"- **<span style="font-family: 'palatino linotype','serif';">Throughout the novel, Jane struggles to find the right balance between moral duty and earthly pleasure, between obligation to her spirit and attention to her body. She encounters several religious figures. Such as, Mr. Brocklehurst, and Helen Burns. Each represents a model of religion that Jane ultimately rejects as she forms her own ideas about faith and principle, and their practical consequences.


 * __<span style="font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','serif';">Symbolic- __**
 * <span style="font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif;">"Fire and Ice"- ** <span style="font-family: 'palatino linotype','serif';">Fire and ice appear throughout Jane Eyre. The former represents Jane’s passions, anger, and spirit, while the latter symbolizes the oppressive forces trying to extinguish Jane’s vitality. Fire is also a metaphor for Jane, as the narrative repeatedly associates her with images of fire, brightness, and warmth. In Chapter 4, she likens her mind to “a ridge of lighted heath, alive, glancing, devouring.” We can recognize Jane’s kindred spirits by their similar links to fire; thus we read of Rochester’s “flaming and flashing” eyes (Chapter 26). After he has been blinded, his face is compared to “a lamp quenched, waiting to be relit” (Chapter 37).
 * <span style="font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','serif';">Crescent moon **<span style="font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','serif';">- When Jane encounters Mr. Rochester for the first time, even though she does not know it is him, there is a crescent moon out. The crescent moon represents change and transition. After Jane meets Mr. Rochester, her life begins to change.

//<span style="font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','serif';">Section 5 (pgs. 333-433) #RachelR981 // <span style="font-family: 'palatino linotype','serif';">After Jane finds out the truth about Rochester's secret wife, Bertha, Jane decides to leave Thornfield. She has no place to go, and this is a very dark and lonely time for her. Her wedding was ruined, and now she's being separated from the man who cares about her, physically and mentally. She leaves Thornfield and tries to forget about Rochester and her old life.
 * __<span style="font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','serif';">Situational __**
 * <span style="font-family: 'palatino linotype','serif';">"The Separation" **

<span style="font-family: 'palatino linotype','serif';">Jane meets two women, Diana and Mary, who take her in from off the street and offer her food and a place to stay. They comfort Jane in her time of need. These two women end up protecting Jane and being loyal to her. <span style="font-family: 'palatino linotype','serif';">Jane and Rochester obviously are in love, but many obstacles get in the way of them being fully together and married. Bertha is a physical reminder of Rochester's past which prevents their love. Jane's class status also hinders them. Also, Jane leaving and St. John asking for her hand in marriage is keeping Rochester farther from her mind. Their relationship has been difficult from the very start.
 * __<span style="font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','serif';">Character __**
 * <span style="font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','serif';">"Loyal Retainer" **
 * <span style="font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','serif';">"Star-Crossed Lovers" **
 * __<span style="font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','serif';">Symbolic __**
 * <span style="font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','serif';">"Rain" **<span style="font-family: 'palatino linotype','serif';">When Jane returns to Thornfield, she sees Rochester reaching out the window to feel for rain. He is now blind, and the rain is symbolic for "life giving". As Jane returns to Thornfield, they can reunite and his life can resume back. Jane is his life, and with her return, his life is back.
 * <span style="font-family: 'palatino linotype','serif';">"Fire vs. Ice"- **<span style="font-family: 'palatino linotype','serif';">Jane represent the fire, because she represents a free woman who doesn't need anyone to hold her back. She is very intelligent and doesn't want to be tied down and compromise herself for others. St. John represents the ice because he is trying to contain Jane and force her into marriage, even though she declined him multiple times.
 * <span style="font-family: 'palatino linotype','serif';">"Fire"- **<span style="font-family: 'palatino linotype','serif';">When Bertha burns down the house, it represents a new beginning for them all, as much destruction as it caused, it still freed Rochester of his past and Bertha is now out of the picture. He is now free to love Jane. The fire is symbolic for rebirth and new beginnings for him.