jane eyre
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Jane Eyre is a novel about struggle of a little governess for self-realization and dream-fulfillment. In that determined and almost obsessive struggle Jane appears as a self-involved person in an absolute denial of the world around her. This particular layer of Jane's complex personality is important because it shades a general course of the novel. At one point it even raises social and moral issues from the standpoint of Victorian conventionality. In this passage I will show in which way Jane expresses her self-involvement through the denial; I will seek for the evidence and reasons of that; and at last I will give the explanation of how this 'innocent', 'honest' creature developed its mechanisms that influenced broad picture of Jane's personality.
Jane grabbed her reward with blind happiness and joy. "I thought only of the bliss given me to drink in so abundant a flow. Again and again he said, 'Are you happy Jane?' And again and again I answered, 'Yes.' " (224)...