Charlotte Brontes Jane Eyre - The Relationship between Jane and Roches

The Relationship between Jane Eyre and Rochester Each of us carries within us the set out of a unique plant. When circumstances conspire to caringly nourish that seed in the manner most appropriate to its true nature-- circumstances which, sadly, atomic number 18 as rare as they are fortunate--the germ of our original selves is probably to flourish. When, however, this tender seed receives attention which is insufficient or antithetical to its inbred inclination, growth is inevitably blighted in some way. Weaker or much sensitive seedlings may wither outright others will be irreparably stunted. Stronger plants may yet grow to imposing heights, but they will be bent and twisted at the places where their postulate were unmet, and may well notion eternally compelled to somehow loosen the knot of those deforming deprivations, so as to gain closer to their originally intended shapes Jane Eyre and Rochester are devil such plants determined by an indomitable will to find and foll ow their essential selves, they give away in each other a vital key to the actualisation of that end. As every conscientious parent knows, a child needs some(prenominal) roots--love and surety--and wings--belief in, and encouragement of, his autonomy--in order to mature. While gifted with the latter--the drive for self-realisation previously mentioned--Jane and Rochester have been severely deprived of the foundation of the former. They are both outsiders. The identities they have succeeded in forging for themselves thus have a step of rare integrity, for they primarily have come from within, not from the outer motivate to please and emulate others. At the same time, these characters lack the sense of security and connectedness which is the vital prop of such gifts. When the tw... ...r love like two trees in a dense, dark forest, bending, twisting and inter-twining to reach an aperture of warm, bright sunlight, much beautiful to my mind than their unblemished brothers. Wor ks Cited and Consulted Bronte, Charlotte. Jane Eyre. New York Penguin, 1985. Gordon, Lyndall. Charlotte Bronte A loving Life. New York Norton, 1994. Michie, Helena. The Flesh Made Word Female Figures and Womens Bodies. New York Oxford UP, 1987. Poovey, Mary. speech of the Body Mid-Victorian Constructions of Female Desire. Jacobus, Keller, and Shuttleworth 24-46. Rich, Adrienne. Jane Eyre The Temptations of a Motherless Woman. Gates 142-55. Roy, Parama. Unaccommodated Woman and the Poetics of seat in Jane Eyre. Studies in English Literature 29 (1989) 713-27. Sullivan, Sheila. Studying the Brontes. Longman York, 1986.