Fire In Jane Eyre Research Paper

The Burning Passion in Jane Eyre “Tongues of flame darted round the bed: the curtains were on fire. In the midst of blaze and vapour…” As Charlotte Brontë wrote the novel Jane Eyre, she included the word “fire” several times. She uses is a description, a background image, and as an action event. The use of fire gives a way to show the passion that the characters have. The deep emotion the characters’ hold is shown through fire, which leads to the larger theme of love. The fire occurs because of love and love is grown next to the fire in the novel. Though the fire imagery in Jane Eyre generally shows the vivid emotions of anger from Bertha Mason for Mr. Rochester’s abandonment of her and Jane Eyre’s of love by her trying to save him and then

Rochester’s by Bertha Mason. Jane Eyre awoke to a laughing sound and someone outside of her door. This led to her investigating and finding something she did not expect. “Something creaked: it was a door ajar; and that door was Mr. Rochester’s, and the smoke rushed in a cloud from thence. I thought no more of Mrs. Fairfax; I thought no more of Grace Poole, or the laugh: in an instant, I was within the chamber. Tongues of flame darted round the bed: the curtains were on fire. In the midst of blaze and vapour, Mr. Rochester lay stretched motionless, in deep sleep. “Jane then saved Rochester’s life. This act illustrates the passion that Jane experiences. She risked her life to go into a room doused in flames to save a man’s life. The fire is a representation of passion. Bertha Mason did this with passion in her heart. A passion can be defined as, “strong and barely controllable emotion.” This emotion that evokes passion in Bertha Mason here is anger. Anger that she is being held captive by the person she is married to. The emotion that evokes passion in Jane Eyre is love. Love for Mr. Rochester. There is one fire, but two different passions that are symbolized through this. The fire engulfs and surrounds Mr. Rochester, just as his relationships with both women do. He is falling for Jane and surrounded by that emotion, but he is also

The anger that Bertha feels towards Mr. Rochester and Jane Eyre is embodied by the fire. Jane learns the story of the fire from the host at the Rochester Arms when he explains, “However, on this night, she set fire first to the hangings of the room next her own, and then she got down to a lower story, and made her way to the chamber that had been the governess’s—(she was like as if she knew somehow how matters had gone on, and had a spite at her)—and she kindled the bed there; but there was nobody sleeping in it, fortunately. “She lights both Mr. Rochester and Jane’s rooms on fire. The two people she has the most anger towards. Her emotions ignite like the flames to end them and then end herself. Bertha Mason does this to epitomize her burning ties with Thornfield and Mr. Rochester. She dramatically burns the place down. She isn’t trying to only hurt Mr. Rochester in this instance. This time, she burns more than just his room. She goes to Jane Eyre’s former room and burns it as well. From this action, it is shown that Bertha knows this is the end. This is her officially burning the ties and the relationship she had at Thornfield. The entirety of this even relates back to the theme of love because when Jane Eyre finds out about the fire, once again she is worried about the safety of Mr. Rochester. Her curiosity in the situation shows the passion she has for him;