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Jane Eyre - Nature
Charlotte Bronte makes use of nature imagery throughout "Jane Eyre," and comments on both the human relationship with the outdoors and human nature. ... " We will see how "Jane Eyre" comments on all of these. ... After Jane saves Rochesters life, she gives us the following metaphor of their relationship: "Till morning dawned I was tossed on a buoyant but unquiet sea . ... whether it be intentional or not, conjures up the image of a buoyant sea when Rochester says of Jane: "Your habitual expression in those days, Jane, was . ... " In fact, it is this buoyancy of Janes relationship with Rochester that keeps Jane afloat at her time of crisis in the heath: "Why do I struggle to retain a valueless life? ... We quickly see how Jane identifies with the bird. ... The link between Jane and birds is strengthened by the way Bront? ... As we shall see later, Jane goes through a sort of symbolic death, so it makes sense for her to represent the drowned corpse. The gold bracelet can be the purity and innocence of the old Jane that Rochester managed to capture before she left him. Having established some of the nature themes in "Jane Eyre," we can now look at the natural cornerstone of the novel: the passage between her flight from Thornfield and her acceptance into Morton.
In leaving Thornfield, Jane has severed all her connections; she has cut through any umbilical cord. ... A "sensible" heroine might have gone to find her uncle, but Jane needed to leave her old life behind.
Jane is seeking a return to the womb of mother nature: "I have no relative but the universal mother, Nature: I will seek her breast and ask repose. ... "
It is the moon, part of nature, that sends Jane away from Thornfield. Jane narrates: "birds were faithful to their mates." Seeing herself as unfaithful, Jane is seeking an existence in nature where everything is simpler. ...
The concept of nature in "Jane Eyre" is reminiscent of Hegels view of the world: the instantiation of God. ... Similarly, the precipitation that makes Jane happy as she leaves Thornfield, and the rain that is the life-force of everything in the heath, is the same precipitation that led her to narrate this passage: "But my night was wretched, my rest broken: the ground was damp .
Approximate Word count = 1903
Approximate Pages = 7.6
(250 words per page double spaced)
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