jane Eyre analysis

physcilogical spproach.

the force that causes jane to act the way that she does would have to be mr. rochester, jane is absoulutely in love with him. therefore, he causes her to act the way that she does.

an unconcious character is jane eyre, she does not mean to act the way that she does, sometimes she does not even realize that she does things sometimes, for example when she accidently confesses her love for mr. rochester she is shocked at herself.

a concious character would be mr. rochester. he is always aware of what he is doing at all times, he never seems to make mistakes.

a thesis i would have to pick for the novel, jane eyre, would be how love can make you become blind of your actions.

Nabokov Essay BLOG #35!! What is your reaction to this essay? Is it an emotional one or a logical one?

My very last blog! Yay! :D
My reaction to Vladimir Nabokov's essay "Good Readers and Good Writers" was an emotional one definitely. I really truly loved this essay. <3 Nabokov did such a wonderful job with this essay. As I was reading it I was not bored in the least bit, I was actually intrigued to find out what Nabokov had to say about good readers and good writers. His essay made me think about things that I probably would never have thought about before if I had not of read this essay. For example, when he is talking about whether or not we can rely on novels for any type of historical information such as descriptions of times, events or places. I never would have even considered if descriptions of historical things in novels are realistic or made up . I always just assumed that everything I read about times and places in novels were true. I never stopped to think about if the author of whatever novel I was reading even experienced the things they were describing. Now that I have read this essay I realize that things may not be truthful or realistic. Vladimir Nabokov makes a lot of good points such as that one that I mentioned. I found myself agreeing with his statements more frequently than I would have thought I would when I first started to read the essay "Good Readers and Good Writers".

Nabokov Essay Blog #34 What authority does the author have as a writer?

The author, Vladimir Nabokov, has a calm, gentle but yet strong authority when writing this essay "Good Readers and Good Writers". His authority is calm and gentle because he does let you think your own thoughts about his points . He states his points strongly but lets you think about them. Nabokov has lots of characteristics of a good reader and/ or a good writer but lets you pick out your own choices of which ones make a good writer and/ or a good reader. He wants you to choose which of the ten characteristics suit your definition of a good reader and/ a good writer. By letting you make your own decisions about the points in his essay he is actually being persuasive. When I thought about his points more I found myself agreeing with him even though he didn't necessarily need you to agree with him. Nabokov's essay ending up being actually very convincing and persuasive.

Vladimir Nabokov also had a strong authority because in the introduction he does state what he thinks the definition of a good reader and a good writer is. He also has a strong enough authority to not care if you agree with his points or not.

Nabokov Essay Blog #33 Identify the method(s) of introduction. What characterizes the conclusion?

The introduction in "Good Readers and Good Writers" is an unusally long introduction. Vladimir Nabokov actually writes several paragraphs in his introdction of this essay. He uses these several introduction paragraphs to explain what his definitions of good reading and good writing really are. He asks you different types of questions in the essay when he is trying to define what good reading and writing are. Nabokov asks you these different questions because he wants you to use your own imagination to think about the things he is saying. Imagination is one of the things Vladimir Nabokov says you need to be a good reader and/ or a good writer.

The conclusion, of course, is identified because it is as the end of the essay but also because Vladimir Nabokov is trying to tie up all the loose ends in the essay. He pulls all of his mains points together and talks about needing to be able to teach a lesson, enchante the reader, and tell a story all at the same time to be a good reader and a good writer. Saying all of these things together are Vladimir Nabokov's method of summing up the whole essay with the conclusion. The three different things I mentioned before were the characterizations of the conclusion. When he started to put those things together in the same paragraph I could tell that the essay was coming to an end.

Nabokov Essay Blog #32 How is the essay organized?

Nabokov's "Good Readers and Good Writers" is organized, I think, in a typical essay format. Vladimir Nabokov uses paragraphs and lists such as any other normal type of essay would have used. He states his points and then explains why he thinks how he thinks then he lets you form your own opinions about what he has said. He doesn't just state something and expect you to understand and agree with his points that he makes. Vladimir Nabokov also uses rhetorical devices in the essay "Good Readers and Good Writers" to get his points across with out coming across as forceful. Rhetorical devices are a more uncommon approach to essay writing but it is very effective in this essay when used the way that he uses them. He asks a question, or well several questions in a row and asks them in such a way that you just know which answer is the correct one. However, he does not just give you the answer, he does though want you to think about the question that he is asking in the essay. Other than the use of rhetorical devices in this essay it is a perfectly normal organized essay. Vladimir Nabokov did a beautiful job with the skillful writing in this essay. (:

Nabokov Essay Blog #31 What passsages capture your attention, arouse a reaction? These can be ideas or elements of language.

In the essay "Good Readers and Good Writers" by Vladimir Nabokov he writes a list of ten characteristics that his college class made that a good reader and/ or a good writer should have. He then says to pick four from this list that make a good writer or reader. This part of the essay really grabbed my attention because it is like saying that almost anyone could be a good reader or a good writer if they really set their minds to it. The four characteristics that his college students picked were: (1) having a good imagination, (2) having a memory, (3) having a dictionary and (4) having at least some artistic sense. I also would have picked these four characteristics out of his list of ten. This part of the essay was most interesting to me also because it was really the only part of the essay that actually discussed what things were needed to be a good reader. He says "I use the word reader very loosely..." (Nabokov, page 2) He means that anyone could be a reader, it doesn't matter what you read. He is trying to say that he doesn't just classify people that read all the time as readers. He thinks "reader" is a very general statement.

Nabokov Essay Blog #30 What rhetorical devices are used?

Nabokov's most prominent rhetorical device used in this essay is rhetorical questions. At several points in the essay he asks questions that really don't have a straight-forward answer but he wants you to think about them. For example, "Can we rely on Jane Austen's picture of landowning England with baronets and landscaped grounds when all she knew was a clergyman's parlor?" (Nabokov, Page 1) Nabokov doesn't answer this but wants you to think about whether or not you can rely on novels for historical information. He wants your answer to this question to be "No" but he wants you to come to that conclusion on your own. This is evident because he asks the question but does not answer it. I know that I used this example already but it suits an example of a rhetorical question perfectly.

Another rhetorical device Nabokov uses is imagery. For example, "That speckled creature that bolted across my path may be tamed." (Nabokov, Page 2) Nabokov gives you a good picture of what he is trying to say. You can picture the speckled beast that he is picturing. He is good at using discriptive writing. This just made his essay that much more enjoyable to read.

Nabokov Essay Blog #29 What is the author's tone?

Nabokov has a peaceful, gentle tone, he isn't trying to force his opinions on the reader. He states his points clearly but wants the reader to form their own ideas from his points. He states that a good reader and writer must have a good sense of imagination. Nabokov wants the reader to use their imagination when reading his essay. Whereas, in Italo Calvino's essay he forced his ideas on you and used his authority to make you see things his way. Vladimir Nabokov to me is completely the opposite. He makes his points very casually, he even uses questions to make his points so you can answer the question with your own ideas and imagination. Nabokov really stresses that you need an imagination. For example, "Can we rely on Jane Austen's picture of landowning England with baronets and landscaped grounds when all she knew was a clergyman's parlor?" (Nabokov, Page 1) This question refers to whether or not you can rely on the historical information that is written in novel such as Jane Austen . He wants you to think what you want to think about this question, he wants you to draw your own conclusions from this question.

Nabokov Essay Blog #28 What is the thesis? Where is it? Is it explicit or implicit?

Nabokov's essay "Good Readers and Good Writers" was a different sort of essay, the thesis was not clearly stated anywhere so it was implicit throughout the entire essay. Explicit essays have a thesis clearly stated somewhere, usually at the beginning of the essay. I simply could not find the thesis anywhere. This essay was actually a very good one, I really enjoyed it actually alot. Nabokov makes you think about the different rhetorical questions he asks. The questions he states throughout the essay are his way of having a thesis instead of actually stating a clear thesis . He wants people to think about the questions that he asks throughout the essay, such as: "Can we expect to glean information about places and times from a novel?" (Nabokov Page1) He is asking if we can actually expect to lean and rely on historical times and places that are described in novels. He wants the reader to form his or her own opinion even though he wants the answer to be a "No" . The essay "Good Readers and Good Writers" is a great essay even though it lacks a clear explicit thesis. Nabokov does a great job with the implicit essay way of writing.

A Brave New World Blog #27 Character Description "The Controller"

The Controller in A Brave New World is responsible for maintaining the way the world behaves in the "civilization". He knows about God and the Bible. He keeps a copy of the Bible even hidden away from everyone. He also knows about Shakespeare's works of art. He gets into an argument with the Savage over these things. The Savage feels that the whole population of this new civilization should know about God and The Bible, he thinks it would help to restore things like marriage and parenting your own children. However, this is exactly what the Controller does not want. He wants a whole race of Bible ignorant people. The Controller just chooses not to share these things with the other people in the "civilization". He claims that people would not understand them because they are old. He has no faith in the new civilization of people being able to understand things just because they are old. The Controller, I think, really just doesn't want to share these special books from the old world because he doesn't want the entire "civilization" to rebel against him. The Controller is a powerful, but yet very selfish man.

A Brave New World Blog #26 How accurately does this novel reflect events in history? What responsibilities does the author believe exist between vari

Since A Brave New World was written about the future the novel does not refer to any events in history except for several breif mentions of Shakespeare's quotes . The author does however believe that certain responsibilities exist between certain groups in society. In the book lab workers create different types of embryo's in a lab according to the job that they are going to do when they grow up in life. Dumb, idiotic people are created to do service jobs such as cleaning and fixing things around their labs. While Alphas are created to be smart, intelligent and handsome, they are created to be leaders and presidents of their "civilization". Average people were made to work in the labs and create more embryo's. Also, people were not expected to pick one partner to mate with forever. They could sleep around with all the people they wanted to and it was considered correct. Maybe since this book was written in the time frame of the 1940's World War 2 affected Aldous Huxley when writing it. Since during the war people were expected to do certain jobs and act a certain way. Huxley, however, doesn't discriminate against black people or women at all.

A Brave New World Blog #25 What techniques does the author use to engage the audience and make the story effective?

Aldous Huxley uses techniques such as mystery and amazement in the novel A Brave New World. He uses mystery throughout the story and you can tell because Huxley keeps you reading because you want to find out what all has changed in the future. Its a mystery because you have to keep reading to see what Huxley has changed about the world he has created in A Brave New World. When I first read that they were making embryo's based on what they were going to do in life I was amazed and intrigued. I had to keep reading because I was so amazed by all the things that had changed about our world today. I think Huxley really wanted you to be amazed by his changes to the world he created. When the Savage starts misbehaving and rebeling against the new "civilization" you don't know what he is going to do next. Its another situation of just having to keep reading because the Savage is so unpredictable with his actions. He beat up Lenina for trying to seduce him and then he started a scene in the middle of the nursing home after his mother, Linda, died. He is an interesting character that keeps the mystery going.

A Brave New World Blog #24 Why do we still read this book? What is so timeless about its message and characters? What can we learn from reading this

The novel A Brave New World is still read because it gives people an idea of what the future could be like. This book is timeless because it portrays the future and sends the massage that the human race could one day be that easily manipulated. People like to learn anything about what the future may be like. We can learn from this novel that people will always believe anything and if you don't stand up for what you believe, people could take something so far as to brainwash everyone around you. This is how the Savage feels, like everyone around him is brainwashed and no one will listen to him. His mother was the only one that knew what he was going through and she died because when Bernard brought the two of them back from the reservation his mother went soma crazy and couldn't stop taking the stuff. So the Savage thinks that this new civilization killed his mother. Poor guy. The Savage is a timeless character because he tries to restore the sanity in the future world and there will always be people like the Savage around.

A Brave New World Blog #23 How does this novel reflect the history, behavior and social issues of the time period and setting? ect.

A Brave New World was written about the future so there are no reflections of the history, behavior or social issues. The Savage however, make references to the Bible and several times throughout the book you find him quoting Shakespeare. The Savage is one of the very few people in "civilization" that know about God and the Bible or Shakespeare. He really seems to like Shakespeare. He is always walking around quoting things that Shakespeare has written and of course no one knows what he is talking about because no one in the new civilization even knows who Shakespeare is. The Savage was just lucky enough to have gotten a Shakespeare book back when he lived in the reservation with his mother. The novel does however symbolize what the far off future could perhaps someday be like. For this novel being written in the 1940's I thought that the author's ideas of the future were very advanced for his time period. There were not many other books written like this one in the 1940's. I think that Aldous Huxley could have been a pioneer author for books of this type in that time frame.

A Brave New World Blog #22 Who is the hero in this book and what are some of his/her traits? What does he/she accomplish and how is he/she portrayed?

The hero in A Brave New World is kind of hard to identify but I would have to say the hero is the Savage. He accomplishes trying to make people realize that the world wasn't always the way it is now and that they don't have to live like that. Of course, the people in this world don't see any other way and think life is perfect. Everyone in this civilization claims to be happy but only because they are being told that they are happy. Therefore, they all think that the Savage is crazy and out of his mind. He makes an attempt to change the world and that is all that matters. He is still qualified as a hero even if he didn't succeed in changing the world. The Savage is portrayed as crazy and out of his mind too, the author wants you to see how ridiculous it is in the future to even think of our world here today. The hero represents the abstract idea of truth, he tries to let everyone see what the world could be like. He wants people to know that there is another way of life other than their own way of life, which is truthful and brave. He knows that these people are not farmiliar with any way other than their own but tries. That is a hero .

A Brave New World Blog #21 What universal theme does this book address? What does the author understand about human nature?

The main universal theme in A Brave New World would have to be that people will believe whatever you tell them. The author, Aldous Huxley, understands this about human nature and you can tell this just simply because he wrote this book. I mean the whole book is about the world completely changing in the future and everybody doing whatever someone tells them. He understands that people will always be trying to change the world into something like the world in A Brave New World. In the book they breed certain people to do certain jobs, for example they breed dumb people specifically to do things like janitor work. They breed smart people to be the leaders. They think that the world is just supposed to be that way and they don't care about anything else. The author , I think, is saying that people are so naive that they would actually let this happen one day in the future. Huxley must not think very highly of the entire human race. He makes up a war in the future and a whole new world, this guy had quite an active imagination.

A Brave New World Blog #20 What are the causes, gains, and losses of the conflict dealt with in this book?

The main conflict in A Brave New World would have to be the way that the Savage acts towards the end. The Savage rebels and goes to live by himself on an island where people keep coming to see him and take pictures of him. At the very end he actually ends up killing Lenina.

The causes of this conflict are the Savage's mother dying, and Bernard trying to take the Savage to all kinds of meetings. When his mother dies it really effects the Savage and makes him see this new world they have brought him to as evil. The Savage doesn't want to meet anymore of these people and Bernard keeps trying to make him, the Savage sort of just snaps.

The gains of the conflict are that maybe people in the "civilization" as they call it, will see how crazy and unnatural they are living their lives. Right before the Savage leaves to his island he argues with the Controller about the way these people are living their lives.

The main loss of the conflict is that Lenina had to die. She comes with a bunch of tourists to visit the Savage and it just makes him so mad that she is there, because he loves her apparently, that he kills her in front of a crowd and nobody even tries to help her.

A Brave New World Blog#19 What does the writing reveal about the author's values and attitudes? From what perspective does he/she write?

The writing in the novel A Brave New World reveals a ton of creativity from the author Aldous Huxley. His creativity is obvious in the way that he portrays the future world to be like. For example, there is no god, no parents, everyone is created in a lab, and no one ever gets married. The idea of marriage and having parents is actually disgusting to the people in this book! It is barbaric for them to think of staying with only one person for the rest of their lives. This may reveal that Aldous Huxley himself thinks that the idea of marriage is disgusting. Maybe Huxely did not have a very good relationship with his parents either. That could be the reason for children being created in labs and having no parents in A Brave New World. It would also take a very creative mind to think of such a book in where it is a whole new world in the future. He writes from a third person perspective, and jumps from character to character quite a bit. The novel was a tad hard to follow with all the switching around Huxley did in this book character-wise. I had to reread pages a few times to fully understand what was going on and which character was involved.

Calvino Essay Blog #18 What is your reaction to this essay? Is it an emotional one or logical one?

My reaction to Calvino's essay was a logical one for sure. I had never thought about the things Calvino said before I read this essay. For example, his point that the classic novels should only be read by fully mature adults, when I thought about that more I understood what Calvino actually meant when he said that. The classics to me are boring and uninteresting and now that I have read this essay I understand that it is because I am not fully mature. When I reread the classics in my adulthood I am hoping that I will understand them more.

Calvino Essay Blog #17 What authority does the author have as a writer?

Calvino has alot of authority here. He really knows what he is talking about in this essay. He keeps his thoughts clear and easy to understand. He really has a lot of emotion for the classics, you can see this a lot in this essay because every definition is a different reason you should read the classic novels. Calvino's essay seemed very well researched, like he didn't just jump in and start writing he thinks and researchs the things he wants to say first. At least, it seemed like he did to me. He really wants to make sure he gets his points across. Calvino mainly believes that if you are not fully mature you should not read the classic novels and he makes this very clear to the reader.


Calvino, Italo. Why Read the Classics? New York: Vintage, 2000. Print.

Calvino Essay Blog #16 Identify the method(s) of introduction. What characterizes the conclusion?

The conclusion is characterized by the last definition. The very first definition he uses as the introduction and the last definition he uses as the conclusion. The introduction is the first defintion where he starts by saying "The classics are books which we usually "I'm rereading" never "I'm reading." (Calvino, Page 3) Which is starting out the essay by a simple statement of the classics by saying that everyone rereads the classics. He ends the essay with "A classic is a work which persists as background noise even when a present that is totally incompatible with it holds sway." (Calvino, Page 8-9) With this statement Calvino is pretty much summing up the whole rest of the essay, therfore it is a conclusion. (:



Calvino, Italo. Why Read the Classics? New York: Vintage, 2000. Print.

Calvino Essay Blog #15 How is the essay organized?

Calvino's essay is organized in a very different way. Where your typical essay is set up in introduction, body, and conclusion. Calvino set up this essay in a type of statement/explanation sort of way. He first states one of his definitions of what he thinks a classic is and then explains why he thinks this, like he is justifying why he thinks what he thinks. I kind of think he saves his most important statements for the last. He builds up to his more main points. His 14th statement (which is also the last) states that "A classic is a work which persists a background noise even when a present that is totally incompatible with it holds sway." ( Calvino Page 8-9) I think Calvino must like this defintion best because he saved it for last which would mean that he would want you to remember it the most since it was the last one you read.


Calvino, Italo. Why Read the Classics? New York: Vintage, 2000. Print.

Calvino Essay Blog #14 What passages capture your attention, arouse a reaction? These can be ideas or elements of language.

I was interested the most in the passage where Calvino was saying that young people should not read classics. I know that I already talked about him saying this, but that is really what captured my attention most because I understood what he was saying. He says "..whereas at a mature age one appreciates (or should appreciate), many more details.." (Calvino, page 4) I understand what he is saying because for example last summer when I read Great Expectations by Charles Dickens and I did not really understand a word of it. I paid attention more to this part of the essay because I understood what he meant. When I am older, like 50 or so, I am actually going to try and read Great Expectations again because according to Calvino it is a very different experience and I think that Great Expectations really did have a good story line to it.


Calvino, Italo. Why Read the Classics? New York: Vintage, 2000. Print.