Jane Eyre and Emma Bovary

             Both Emma Bovary and Jane Eyre pursue love. Isolate what you see as the most important similarity and the most important difference in their quest for love. How does this difference account for what happens to each character at the end of the novel?
             Emma Bovary and Jane Eyre have one thing in common. They both pursue love. Even though this is common in both of them, they take completely different roads to achieve true love. Jane Eyre seems to try to pursue love but something always came up to stop that from happening. Emma Bovary, on the other hand, is never happy with the love she has and wants to pursue something that was quite impossible and only seen in romance novels.
             Jane Eyre lived a really hard life. To me, Jane had the hardest life of all the females in the other novels. Her pursuit for love was actually for love itself. It wasn't anything materialistic, nor was it a physical attraction. She didn't find her love in romance novels. She just wanted to fall in love. However, since she didn't have anything to love, she had to look towards other things to love, which in this case is very sad:
             To this crib I always took my doll; human beings must love something, and in the dearth or worthier objects of affection, I contrived to find a pleasure in loving and cherishing a faded graven image, shabby as a miniature scarecrow (Jane Eyre, 28).
             Jane didn't even have the love coming to her from her family. She had no one but herself and her doll. Even though this unseen love from her family isn't intimate love, it is still necessary to have in order to be able to know how to love someone. Somehow she found happiness in this little toy. She "could not sleep unless it was folded in her night-gown." And when it was with her, she was happy, believing "it to be happy likewise." Jane never got a break in life, until Mr. Rochester came into her life.
             After working for Mr. Rochester for a whil...

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