Brontes Jane Eyre Essay: Importance of Nature Imagery -- Jane Eyre Es

Importance of Nature Imagery in Jane Eyre Charlotte Bronte makes extensive use of nature go steadyry in her novel, Jane Eyre, commenting on both the human relationship with the outdoors and with human nature. The Oxford Reference Dictionary defines nature as 1. the phenomena of the physical world as a whole . . . 2. a things essential qualities a persons or animals innate character . . . 4. vital force, functions, or needs. Bronte speaks to each of these definitions throughout Jane Eyre. Several natural themes run throughout the novel, one of which is the image of a stormy ocean. After Jane saves Rochesters life, she gives the following metaphor of their relationship Till morning dawned I was tossed on a buoyant but unquiet sea . . . I thought sometimes I saw beyond its wild waters a shore . . . now and then a freshening gale, wakened by hope, aegir my spirit triumphantly towards the bourne but . . . a counteracting breeze blew off land, and continually drove me back. The gale represents all the forces that prevent Janes union with Rochester. Later, Bront conjures up the image of a buoyant sea when Rochester says of Jane Your habitual expression in those days, Jane, was . . . not buoyant. 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? Because I know, or believe, Mr. Rochester is living. Another recurrent image is Bronts treatment of Birds. We first experience Janes fascination with them as she reads Bewicks 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 ide... ...illiam Hurt, Charlotte Gainsborough, and Anna Paquin. 1996 Jane Eyre. Dir. Julian Aymes. Perf. Timothy Dalton, Zelah Clarke. 1983Kadish, Doris. The Literature of Images Narrative Landscape from Julie to Jane Eyre. in the buff Brunswick Rutgers UP, 1986.Linder, Cynthia A. Ro mantic Imagery in the Novels of Charlotte Bronte. London MacMillan, 1978.McLaughlin, M.B. Past or Future Mindscapes Pictures in Jane Eyre. Victorian Newsletter 41 (1972) 22-24.Peters, Joan D. Finding a Voice Towards a Womans Discourse in Dialogue in the Narration of Jane Eyre. Studies in the Novel. 23 no 2. (1991) 217-36.Zonana, Joyce. The Sultan and the Slave Feminist Orientalism and the Structure of Jane Eyre. Signs. 18 no 3. (1993) 592-617 Comments ***VERY WELL WRITTEN PAPER......WHAT ABOUT CITING THE QUOTES USED FROM THE TEXT?***