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 …

…because she had all the materialistic things she could have. Jane’s morals took over and she was able to make the right decisions. Jane is much more mature than Emma. Emma was pursuing love with a closed, unrealistic mind, which would eventually lead to her downfall; Jane was pursuing it with a more realistic and open mind to who could actually be her true love, which allowed her to find true happiness and love.