The Night Circus by Erin Morgenstern and Jane Eyre by Charlotte Brontë

“Your task is not to seek for love, but merely to seek to find all the barriers within yourself that you have built against it.”

- Jalalad-din-Rumi

The Night Circus by Erin Morgenstern and Jane Eyre by Charlotte Brontë, both show two people that are fated to meet within forbidden circumstances that should have prevented them from being together but causes them to push against the destiny laid out. Night Circus by Morgenstern shows the main characters, Celia Bowen and Marco Alisdair, slowly develop feelings for each other, as they learn the true ending of their story. In Jane Eyre by Brontë, the protagonists, Jane Eyre and Edward Rochester, learn to trust one another as they face difficulties and a major secret that tests her loyalty to him. Jane finds herself falling further into the depths of love. It shows how the love that is evident between the two characters only grows stronger and deeper through the destruction of the boundaries and rules that are set from of them. Through the abusive pasts of both the female characters, boundaries and rules set, the first time they meet, and the decisions and sacrifices made to be together, are all signs of their bond growing into a strong combination.

First, the female character’s past is a very important part of who she becomes and how they are able to be resilient in fighting through the restrictions that bind them. When she was younger, Celia was stubborn, impulsive, and short-tempered. In Night Circus, it all starts with the introduction of Celia and Hector Bowen, her father, the start of her cruel fate. The introduction of her father is what turns her life into a competition. It all began when the ring was engraved onto her finger in order to make her magic stronger, her father put he...

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...she wanted and the true love that still lingered even after years of separation.

The star-crossed lovers from both books highlight a love that grows stronger as they fight through the obstacles that are placed on their journey together. The past that affects the female characters in the future, the boundaries/rules set for each of the lovers, the first time they speak to each other, and lastly the difficult and painful decisions that are made. The circumstances in each book should have left the lovers standing alone, away from the pain, however instead they stand there undefeated as a couple with the power to crash but the ability to pick each other up again.

Works Cited

Bronte, Charlotte. Jane Eyre. Rep ed. New York: Everyman's Library, 2011. 656 . Print.

Morgenstern, Erin. The Night Circus. 1. Canada: Doubleday Canada, 2011. 3-384. Print. .