Jane Eyre Blog #2 What are the cases, gains, and losses of the conflict dealt with in this book?

Jane Eyre is just full of conflicts, such as: Jane living with her aunt and cousins and everything she does being wrong, Jane being in love with Mr. Rochester but having to leave him because he is married, her starvation/ jobless life when she runs away from Thornfield Hall, and her cousin wanting to marry her. The main conflict, I believe, is Jane being in love with Mr. Rochester but having to leave him.





The cause of Jane having to leave Mr. Rochester is that he already has a wife, living under the same roof with them even! This may not have been so bad if he had told Jane about it since his "wife" is a lunatic, but he did not . Jane had to find out on her wedding day at the alter when someone announced that her fiance was already married! She was very shocked, mad, sad, hurt, and upset, just as she should be. When they got home he tried to apologize but Jane wasn't allowing it. Jane ran away from Thornfield Hall early the next morning before anyone was up to see her go .





The gains of the conflict is Jane found 3 of her cousins! Jane was believed to have no family but stumbled upon Diane, St. John and Mary, her cousins! They were the nice people that took Jane in when she was starving and about to die. Jane did not know then that they were her cousins. She found out only when St. John and his sister's uncle had died , they got a letter that had said the uncle had left them nothing. Later, someone sends St. John a letter asking if he knew a Jane Eyre and where he might find her. He put two ans two together and figured out that this was the girl staying with them. She had inherited 20,000 pounds from their uncle! She was so happy to find out that these were her cousins! She even insisted upon giving each of them 5,000 pounds of her inheritance. How generous of her. (:





One of the losses of the conflict is that if Jane hadn't of left Thornfield hall she may have been able to prevent the fire that blinded and severed one of Mr. Rochester's limbs. Jane prevented the other fire that Bertha tried to start she could have done the same with this one, but she was not there. Also, Adele was sent to a bad school because Jane left and there was no one to teach Adele.





Bronte, Charlotte. Jane Eyre. New York: Modern Library, 2000. Print.