External and Internal Forces in Jane Eyre by Charlotte...

External and Internal Forces in Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte In Charlotte Brontà «Ã¢â‚¬â„¢s Jane Eyre, the eventual goal of Jane Eyre’s journeys and struggles as a character is for Jane to be strong enough within herself to stand on her own. It is not until she finds this internal strength that she can live as a content individual and weather the distracting demands put on her by the external forces that surround her. Throughout most of the novel, Jane makes the mistake of looking for this internal peace through external forces like Mrs. Reed, Mr. Rochester and St. John. To convey this tendency, Charlotte Brontà « constructs her narrative so that, rather than looking within herself to find internal solace, Jane turns away from cold, alien†¦show more content†¦Mrs. Reed rejects this role entirely, treating Jane with unmasked cruelty. The first example of this rejection is also the first strong example of Jane’s internal uneasiness being expressed through discomfort with domestic internal imagery. Jane watches Mrs. Reed reading a story to her children, longing to join them around the warm fire. This scene around the fire is a classic domestic internal image because it takes place inside the home, rather than in the environment surrounding the home. Mrs. Reed won’t let Jane join them because Jane is not a happy, carefree child. Jane needs little more than for this mother figure to reach out to her and draw her into this image of domestic happiness so that it is no longer an image but a reality. Instead, Mrs. Reed rejects Jane from this vision of internal domestic happiness, so that Jane must withdraw to her own private nook on the windowsill to find solace outside of this internal image: Folds of scarlet drapery shut in my view to the right hand; to the left were the clear panes of glass, protecting, but not separating me from the drear November day. At intervals, while turning over the leaves of my book, I studied the aspect of that winter afternoon. Afar, it offered a pale blank of mist and cloud; near, a scene of wet lawn and storm-beat shrub, with ceaseless rain sweeping away wildly before a long and lamentable blast. (14) In this passage, Jane shuts herself off from the internalShow MoreRelatedPride And Prejudice And Jane Eyre1681 Words   |  7 PagesIntroduction: Jane Austen and Charlotte Bronte explore social class in a number of different ways throughout their novels Pride and the Prejudice and Jane Eyre. 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