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Jane Eyre - College Term Paper

Jane Eyre

The war between passion and responsibility. In this book Jane Eyre faces a conflict between her true love and her moral responsibility to God that torments her and becomes the most important and intriguing conflict in the book.

When Jane Eyre learns on her wedding day that her true love, Mr. Rochester, already has a wife, she is faced with a conflict between her love for this man and her need to be happy and her moral duty to God to obey the law of the church that recognizes only one marriage. She is tempted almost beyond her will to resist to simply abandon her moral responsibility and become Rochester’s mistress. On one hand, Jane had found for the first time in her life a true ...

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that she has an inner strength that sustains her and the she does not need anyone else. She is also made more pure and, therefore, more self-confident by the fact that she could resist the greatest of all temptations and remain pure. The independence that she gains as a result of this conflict ultimately allows her to marry Rochester. She had always shunned his worshipful attention such as his long drawn-out compliments before, but after the conflict is resolved, she is not bothered by this attention because she has finally earned it. Therefore, the conflict between love and duty to God may have weakened Eyre almost to the point of death, but it also strengthened he and allowed her to find true happiness. ...

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Added: 4/25/2011 08:33:48 AM
Submitted By: borntopout
Category: Book Reports
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