Jane Eyre - Analysis Of Nature

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in those days, Jane, was . . . not buoyant." In

fact, it is this buoyancy of Jane's relationship with Rochester that

keeps Jane afloat at her time of crisis in the heath:



"Why do I struggle to retain a valueless life? Because I know, or

believe, Mr. Rochester is living."



Another recurrent image is Brontė's treatment of Birds. We first

witness Jane's fascination when she reads Bewick's History of British

Birds as a child. She reads of "death-white realms" and "'the solitary

rocks and promontories'" of sea-fowl. We quickly see how Jane

identifies with the bird. For her it is a form of escape, the idea of

flying above the toils of every day life. Several times the narrator

talks of feeding birds crumbs. Perhaps Brontė is telling us that this

idea of escape is no more than a fantasy-one cannot escape when one

must return for basic sustenance. The link between Jane and birds is

strengthened by the way Brontė adumbrates poor ...

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Thornfield and her acceptance into Morton.



In leaving Thornfield, Jane has severed all her connections; she has



cut through any umbilical cord. She narrates: "Not a tie

holds me to human society at this moment." After only taking a small

parcel with her from Thornfield, she leaves even that in the

coach she rents. Gone are all references to Rochester, or even her

past life. 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." We see how she seeks ...

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