Motifs
Fire and Ice Substitute Mothers
Fire and Ice appear all through Jane Eyre. The fire represents Jane's Jane Eyre encounters a series of nurturing and strong women on whom
passions, anger, and spirit. While ice represents the oppressive forces that she can replicate herself, or to whom she can seek comfort and guidance: these
are trying to destroy Jane's vitality. Fire is also a metaphor for Jane, as the women serve as mother figures to the orphan, Jane. The first encounter is the
story frequently connects her with images of fire, brightness, and warmth. servant Bessie, she soothes Jane after her trauma in the red-room and educates
In Chapter 4, Jane likens her mind to "a ridge of lighted heath, alive, glancing, her to find comfort in stories and songs. The second encounter is Miss Temple,
devouring." Images of ice and cold, often come into view in association who has no authority in the world at large and possesses considerable spiritual
with landscapes, and symbolize emotional misery, loneliness, and death. strength and charm. Miss Temple not only sheltered Jane from pain but inspires
After the interrupted wedding of Jane and Edward Rochester, Jane describes her intellectual development. In Chapter 10, Jane writes about Miss Temple by
her state of mind: "A Christmas frost had come at mid-summer : a white saying; "she had stood by me in the stead of mother, governess, and latterly,
December storm had whirled over June; ice glazed the ripe apples, drifts companion." Jane also finds two additional mothers figures in the characters
crushed the blowing roses; on hay-field and corn-field lay a frozen shroud... of Diana and Mary Rivers. Unmarried and self-governing, the River's sisters love
and the woods, which twelve hours since waved leafy and fragrant as groves learning, reciting poetry, and live as smart equals with their brother St. John.
between the tropics, now spread, waste, wild, and white as pine-forests in
winter Norway. My hopes were all dead..." (Chapter 26).
Fire and Ice Substitute Mothers
Fire and Ice appear all through Jane Eyre. The fire represents Jane's Jane Eyre encounters a series of nurturing and strong women on whom
passions, anger, and spirit. While ice represents the oppressive forces that she can replicate herself, or to whom she can seek comfort and guidance: these
are trying to destroy Jane's vitality. Fire is also a metaphor for Jane, as the women serve as mother figures to the orphan, Jane. The first encounter is the
story frequently connects her with images of fire, brightness, and warmth. servant Bessie, she soothes Jane after her trauma in the red-room and educates
In Chapter 4, Jane likens her mind to "a ridge of lighted heath, alive, glancing, her to find comfort in stories and songs. The second encounter is Miss Temple,
devouring." Images of ice and cold, often come into view in association who has no authority in the world at large and possesses considerable spiritual
with landscapes, and symbolize emotional misery, loneliness, and death. strength and charm. Miss Temple not only sheltered Jane from pain but inspires
After the interrupted wedding of Jane and Edward Rochester, Jane describes her intellectual development. In Chapter 10, Jane writes about Miss Temple by
her state of mind: "A Christmas frost had come at mid-summer : a white saying; "she had stood by me in the stead of mother, governess, and latterly,
December storm had whirled over June; ice glazed the ripe apples, drifts companion." Jane also finds two additional mothers figures in the characters
crushed the blowing roses; on hay-field and corn-field lay a frozen shroud... of Diana and Mary Rivers. Unmarried and self-governing, the River's sisters love
and the woods, which twelve hours since waved leafy and fragrant as groves learning, reciting poetry, and live as smart equals with their brother St. John.
between the tropics, now spread, waste, wild, and white as pine-forests in
winter Norway. My hopes were all dead..." (Chapter 26).
Symbols
The Red Room Bertha Mason
The red room symbolizes of what Jane must overcome in her Bertha can be a manifestation of Jane's subconscious feelings struggles to freedom, happiness, and a sense of belonging. such as rage against harsh social and gender normals.
The Red Room Bertha Mason
The red room symbolizes of what Jane must overcome in her Bertha can be a manifestation of Jane's subconscious feelings struggles to freedom, happiness, and a sense of belonging. such as rage against harsh social and gender normals.
Themes
Love vs. Autonomy Religion
Jane Eyre is on a quest to be loved, not just romantic love but Jane struggles to find the right balance between moral duty and earthly
also for a sense of being valued and belonging. pleasure between obligation to her spirit and attention to her body.
.
Love vs. Autonomy Religion
Jane Eyre is on a quest to be loved, not just romantic love but Jane struggles to find the right balance between moral duty and earthly
also for a sense of being valued and belonging. pleasure between obligation to her spirit and attention to her body.
.