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AWEJ for Translation & Literary Studies, Volume3, Number2.May 2019                                    Pp.66 -77

“Jane Eyre’s Morality”: A Kohlbergian Reading

Ali Sabri Mohammad Abu Hassan

Department of English, Faculty of Languages and Communication
Sultan ZinalAbidin University
Terengganu, Malaysia

Mohd Nazri Latif Azmi

Department of English, Faculty of Languages and Communication
Sultan ZinalAbidin University
Terengganu, Malaysia

Abstract:

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Classified as a bildungsroman novel, Brontë’s Jane Eyre (1847) is a work of fiction which deals with the moral development of the main character as an essential ingredient of the genre. Jane’s journey towards maturity and independence is a long rocky way that shapes her identity and finally harmonizes her with society. Through many stations in her journey, Jane has to make tough moral choices and decisions to obtain healthy moral reasoning. Thus, this paper is meant to trace the protagonist’s moral development in the light of Lawrence Kohlberg’s moral theory. Jane’s journey starts when she is ten years old, and ends at the age of thirty. At the end of the novel, Jane is married and has a child aged ten. Her twenty-year-journey locates her in the three consecutive stages of moral development. Her twenty-year-journey locates her in the three consecutive stages of moral development. Depicting the influence of the main and minor characters in the novel, this paper seeks to illustrate how Jane develops a sense of moral reasoning and acts accordingly.

Cite as:

Abu Hassan, A.S.M., & Azmi, M.N.L. (2019). “Jane Eyre’s Morality”: A Kohlbergian Reading. Arab World English Journal for Translation & Literary Studies, 3 (2) 66 -77.

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Ali Abu Hassan
Ali Abu Hassan is a PhD student in English Language Studies at Sultan Zinal Abidin Universiti,
Kuala Terengannu, Malaysia. He is also a lecturer of English Language at the Northern Border
University (Saudi Arabia). He is also a secondary school English teacher (Jordan). His main area
of interest is English Literature. ORCID ID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8735-0908.

Dr. Mohammad Nazri Bin Latif Azmi
Dr. Nazri’s specializations are on literacy and comparative literature studies. He attended several
long-term professional courses in education and comparative literature in the USA and
Portugal. He has been a keynote speaker at several international conferences in Asia and presented
more than 15 papers inside and outside Malaysia and published more than 20 papers in indexed
journals. His passion towards education and literature is overwhelming due to realizing that
language is a beautiful art and education is the root of any civilization.