Charlotte Brontes Jane Eyre - The Relationship between Jane and Roches

The Relationship between Jane Eyre and Rochester Each of us carries inwardly us the seed of a unique plant. When luck conspire to caringly nutrify that seed in the manner most appropriate to its true nature-- circumstances which, sadly, argon as rare as they are fortunate--the germ of our veritable selves is desirely to flourish. When, however, this tender seed receives attention which is insufficient or different to its essential inclination, growth is inevitably blighted in some way. Weaker or more sensitive seedlings may wither outright others leave alone be irreparably stunted. Stronger plants may yet grow to imposing heights, but they will be bent and twisted at the places where their needs were unmet, and may headspring feel eternally compelled to somehow loosen the knot of those deforming deprivations, so as to come closer to their originally intended shapes Jane Eyre and Rochester are two much(prenominal) plants directn by an indomitable will to find and follow the ir essential selves, they discover in each other a vital make out to the realization of that end. As every conscientious parent knows, a child needs both roots--love and security--and wings--belief in, and encouragement of, his autonomy--in order to mature. While gifted with the latter--the drive for self-realization 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 quality of rare integrity, for they primarily have come from within, not from the outermost prompting to please and emulate others. At the same time, these characters lack the perceive 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, ardent sunlight, more beautiful to my mind than their unblemished brothers. Works Cit ed and Consulted Bronte, Charlotte. Jane Eyre. saucily York Penguin, 1985. Gordon, Lyndall. Charlotte Bronte A Passionate Life. New York Norton, 1994. Michie, Helena. The Flesh Made Word Female Figures and Womens Bodies. New York Oxford UP, 1987. Poovey, Mary. Speaking of the Body Mid-Victorian Constructions of Female Desire. Jacobus, Keller, and Shuttleworth 24-46. Rich, Adrienne. Jane Eyre The Temptations of a Motherless fair sex. Gates 142-55. Roy, Parama. Unaccommodated Woman and the Poetics of Property in Jane Eyre. Studies in English Literature 29 (1989) 713-27. Sullivan, Sheila. analyse the Brontes. Longman York, 1986.