More from environment, subjugation and the role models they have on hand(predicate) to them, than any chance they would have to declaim their true self, both(prenominal)(prenominal) Jane and Celie start their journeys as shy, awkward girls who are much(prenominal) than involuntary to obey their oppressors to the utmost. It leave alone take her revere for Edward Rochester to make Jane brave, as it will take the brazen, spangles-flashing Shug to make Celie brave, in order for both girls to become themselves as women. While Jane, being a cleaning woman of her social, economic and class background seemed braved at the judgment of conviction for finding courage through traditional love, we must come, eventually, to admire Celie more because she finds love by herself-a much more difficult, if more stark(a) discovery. Of course, that doesn't mean it wasn't any easier for a white oppressed women in a certain environment to swim against the tide than it was for a black woman to swim against the tide of oppression in her era, but the environment/times must be considered. However, where Celie is concerned, later a lifetime of physical and emotional abuse, oppression, lack of prospect and forced separation from her family is concerned, Shug represents an expansion of the boundaries she believed were her own because they were so gratingly imposed upon her.
In Jane Eyre, Jane is more confronted with socio-economic oppression than she is physical abuse. However, being a woman who only had the modeling of her era to forge her self, she must learn to spring up as much as Celie against the limiting forces of her era. Yet, perhaps Jane faces a more difficult challenge to be herself than Celie. Celie's oppression is diaphanous and external.
Those who oppress her make no secret of their hatred or abuse towards her. At least she knows who to fight. In Jane's era the oppression was much more subtle, masquerading as proper lady- comparable behavior, religion, social experimental condition or numerous other self limiting factors that the "norms" of the time affirm as the only "correct" manner of being. However, Jane's fears, like Celie's, are not quite as deep as her love. Celie will override her social parameters and get Shug and Mr. _____, and even re-bond with Nettie. Likewise, Jane will find her happiness by being brave passable to endure social ostracism and be free to express her love for Rochester. As Shug models real love for Celie, so Rochester models it for Jane (i.e., match to be themselves, but different), "The veil fell from his hardness and despotism. Having mat in him the presence of these qualities, I felt his imperfection, and took courage. I was with an equal-one with whom I might argue-one whom, if I saw good, I might dissent" (Bronte 358). Both women would never have found real love (of the self, or others) if they wouldn't have had the courage to
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