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An 8 page research paper/essay that examines Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte as to which controls her destiny – fate or free will. The writer argues that it is free will that determines the novel's ending for Jane. Bibliography lists 2 sources.
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their options, both public and private. Also, in Brontes era, i.e. the Victorian, society, the structure of society was very class-oriented. Jane, as an orphan whose closest relatives had
written her off, occupied one of the lowest rungs on the social ladder. Blessed with intelligence, but not with beauty, everything in her life seemed directed towards a preordained fate
as a governess - forever teaching, loving, and looking after the needs of other peoples children. However, in the pitched battle that Bronte stages between fate and free will,
it is free will that ultimately triumphs, as Janes outcome is not primarily decided by fate, although this does play a part, but rather by the her strength of character
and her will. Despite the fact that Jane Eyre is a love story that ends in marriage, everything that Jane says about herself and a great deal of
what others say about her is intentionally calculated to demonstrate that Jane is not a romantic heroine, for whom the reader can assume that marriage is a foregone conclusion (Bell
263). First of all, she is plain, and Bronte stresses her lack of the requisite beauty for a proper heroine repeatedly (Bell 263). Also, Jane is not a proper Victorian
heroine in that, even as a child, she rejected the concept of defect within herself. Victorians saw feminine defect, i.e. traditional female "helplessness," as a grace that should endear a
women to her spouse (Bell 263). Jane breaks with this paradigm completely. She is threateningly intelligent, blunt in her speech and mentally
submissive to no one. These characteristics are evident in Jane, even when she is pictured in childhood. Unlike her contemporaries who frequently wrote from the point of view of society,
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