Examples Of Mistakes In Jane Eyre

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Youthful mistakes, whether caused by an excess or deficiency of persuadability, have permanent consequences. This is seen through Anne’s grief over her refusal of Wentworth and self-imposed resignation from the marriage market, which gives her a uniquely maneuverable position in her social sphere, eventually leading to her reunion and marriage to Wentworth. Similarly, Louisa’s stubborn refusal to be persuaded permanently altered health and personality, leading to her engagement with Benwick, as seen when the narrator says “the day at Lyme, the fall from the Cobb, might influence her health, her nerves, her courage, her character to the end of her life, as thoroughly as it appeared to have influenced her fate” (Austen 167). However, these events are linked; Louisa’s fall “rehearses the terms of Wentworth’s original proposal” (Nandrea 49). Persuasion uses such repetitions to explore alternative outcomes to a single event. …show more content…
As Nandrea states, “history does not repeat itself, but does repeat or ‘actualize’ the myriad traces spun out from the ‘now’ that got, as it were, historicised” (Nandrea 49). Thus, the narrative of the story echoes itself. The themes of an event are retained while its specifics are altered by changes in situation as well as the passage of time, not unlike the manner in which the sound of an echo is warped as it fades away from the sound that was originally made. Whereas “Anne was persuaded not to leap prematurely… Louisa refuses to be persuaded [and] literally jumps too soon” (49), changing her individual circumstances and altering the outcome of the
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