Jane loves Rochester for his personality, and thinks to herself, “gratitude and many associations, all pleasurable and genial, made his face the object I best liked to see his presence in a room was more cheering than the brightest fire” (155). She likes the fact that he is not handsome because as a result, she will receive all of the attention. In addition, Blanche only wants Rochester as her husband for his money, and for the title of a wife. While Jane was in the room, Blanche speaks loudly and rudely of her without a second thought. Blanche flaunts herself, gossips, talks about marriage, and can be very rude as shown when she says “she (Jane) looks too stupid for any game of the sort” (194). Jane is an independent, passionate, and respectful young woman, although she often seems very practical and rational.
The opposites do not stop at their looks and backgrounds, for even Jane and Blanche’s personalities are completely different. In addition, Blanche grows up in a rich noble family while Jane is an orphan who was sent to a lowly boarding school. While Jane is rather plain and unattractive on the outside, Blanche is described as beautiful with, “the noble bust, the sloping shoulders, the graceful neck, the dark eyes and black ringlets” (183) Even Jane cannot deny that Blanche is beautiful. One can see that Jane and Blanche are opposites from before they even meet. Using foils, Bronte reveals more about the personalities of the major characters, and keeps the reader from overlooking many traits.
Reed how supportive Miss Temple really is. John the reader could have missed Rochester’s passionate side, or with no Mrs. For instance, without Blanche, who is a foil of Jane, one may have thought Jane a simple and plain governess and nothing more.
She uses characters will opposite personalities to reveal more about them, and to keep the reader from overlooking many of the major characters’ traits. However, Bronte does use foils in the novel for a different reason. Near the end of the novel Jane marries Rochester effectively quieting Blanche’s ideas.
The foils of Jane Though Blanche, from Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte, thinks that opposites attract and thus that she will marry Rochester, Bronte has different ideas about foils.
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