The Struggle Between Passion and Reason in Charlotte Bronte's Jane Eyre Passion and practicality are strong sentiments that often control the way people think, feel, and even act. The three main characters of Charlotte Bronte's Jane Eyre are faced with many struggles when it comes to dealing with matters of the heart. ... Charlotte Bronte portrays this value, exploring the main theme of the book through the character Jane, who in the end finds the desired balance in her marriage with Rochester. ...

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• Grade Level: High School

Like charlotte Bronte's heroine Jane Eyre reflects: "Women are supposed to be very calm generally: but women feel just as men feel; they need exercise for their faculties and a field for their efforts as much as their brothers do; they suffer from too rigid a restraint, too absolute a stagnation, precisely as men would suffer; and it is narrow-minded in their more privileged fellow-creatures to say that they ought to confine themselves to making puddings and knitting stockings, to playing on the piano and embroidering bags. It is thoughtless to condemn them, or laugh at them, if they...

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