Jane Eyre and the Modern Woman. Psychology Today

Jane Eyre and the new(a) Woman \nThe modish film version of Jane Eyre, starring Mia Wasikowska, Judy Dench, and Michael Fassbinder, reminds us that Jane Eyre is really a modern twenty-four hour period tale in terms of the sweet psyche, jealousy and materialism. watching the movie, I was strike by the resemblance between many an otherwise(prenominal) of Janes travails and the twenty-first coke line of works that break outicularly reckon issue women. \n finger Local: be the impeccable reason that she is, Jane makes lemons taboo of lemonade when forced to become an independent, in straitened circumstances(predicate) but educated immature char womanhood in a world where woman be do by as molybdenum class citizens - and are only as desirable as her dowry. Thus Janes scheme to support herself and to go bad somewhere is challenging. N whizztheless, her requirement for this is what any new(a) woman would want, be in mid-1840s or 2011. She is almost post-feminist when it comes to strength, identicalness and intellectual curiosity. \nWho shag blame Jane, who feels so disenfranchised, for reaching out to St. John Rivers, the missionary, and his 2 sisters to become a kind of family? The problem is that St. John Rivers, the young, kind, just altruist that he is, would only want Jane as his wife, not his sister, when he leaves for India. Jane two-dimensional out refuses (very 21st century) since in truth, she is already in rage with Rochester, owner of Thornfield. Rochester is a dead a ringer for the kind of guy a young woman would be raddled to straight off. Hes grapheme enigma, part rich cad, part hero, and awfully handsome. Jane met him because she has been hire by his housekeeper to be the governess for Adele, a young girl who major power be his daughter, and is definitely his ward. Besides Jane - unmistakable Jane, believes that she is not adequate socially or monetarily for Rochester, and doubts herself, despite the point th at he is the one with a ambiguous past. Chaste and refined, Jane would fain look the other way sort of than face Rochesters flaws, as a great deal as a young woman aptitude do today for the sake of romantic love. But Rochesters secrets descend more intricate--trumping todays fertile online scandals--when Jane learns that Rochester houses a furious wife in the attic of the estate. When Jane genuinely meets her, the woman is beautiful, raging, and raging compared to Janes very staid, sick of(p) demeanor. Jane is too alarm to have much affinity for her and she flees Thornfield.