Jane Eyre Symbolism Essay

Humans can find it challenging to have self motivation, let alone determination. To thrive in a world such as Earth to live a life worth living, it takes just that, determination. In Jane Eyre, Charlotte Bronte demonstrates this with the evolution of Jane's life. The trails she goes through with her aunt, Mr. Rochester and then St John each time she overcomes it with courage. Using mainly symbolism and motifs, these devices beautifly portray strong will in this novel.

Living with her aunt and being totally outcasted like a stranger has her at her wits end. Then when they send her to school for ten years was a blessing to Jane. After having achieved all she could at the school she deems it appropriate to move on, so she does and gets a job as a governess. Little did she know that she would fall

helplessly in love with her employer, Mr. Rochester. The months go on and he proposes to her, they go on as normal and at the wedding Jane discovers his secret. She is so devastated she runs away and is homeless for a couple days until she stumbles upon a family that agrees to help her.
In the novel Jane is young and has a short temper, Her cousin, John , bullies her and her aunt, Mrs.

Reed, punishes her unjustly on one occasion Mrs. Reed locks Jane in the red room. As she is in the room she starts seeing things and becomes hysterical, ¨Oh! I saw a light, and I thought a ghost would come.¨ (Bronte 21.) Jane got so worked up she eventually passes out, although she was distressed nobody let her out of the red room. The servants fetch a doctor to see Jane and later when she is coherent enough to have a conversation the doctor asks her if she would like to go to school. She loves the idea, later her aunt and her are alone in the room and when Mrs. Reed dismisses her so rudely she contemplates giving her a piece of her mind. As she makes her way to the door she turns and lets her have it. “I am glad you are no relation of mine… people think you a good woman, but you are bad, hard-hearted. You are deceitful!”. The fact that her aunt was the one who put her in the room and didn't allow anyone to release Jane from the room made her very upset with Mrs. Reed. Jane was determined to hate her aunt forever but later in life, after she has matured, she goes back

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