"Jane Is on a Journey of Self-Discovery, Emotional and Spiritual as Well as Physical" Consider the Truth of This Statement

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“Jane Is On A Journey of Self-Discovery, Emotional Spiritual as Well as Physical” Consider the Truth of This Statement Jane Eyre is shown to be autobiographical to the character of Jane, as the novel is a bildungsroman and a representation of her maturing attitudes and thought, and discovering herself. The devices Bronte uses to represent this throughout are similarities throughout the novel, but Jane deals with them differently to show her emotional progress. There is also emphasis on transitions in her life to show the significance of her physical changes as well. The first main time where we experience Jane’s change in attitude is in the Red Room as Jane scares herself into a panic and begins to believe that she is hearing “dead men, troubled in their graves by the violation of their last wishes” as Jane is triggered to panic as she thinks of Mr Reed and feels that he is “harassed by the wrongs of his sister’s child” as Jane is treated so brutally by Mrs Reed against Mr Reed’s wishes as Jane feels Mr Reed would have loved her. The factor that triggers Jane into a panic was “a light [that gleamed] on the wall” as we are unaware as to whether Jane has brought herself into a state of panic, by thinking about the late Mr Reed, or whether this light on the wall was actually significant. This self induced panic is contrasted with when Jane plans to run from Thornfield as she finds out about the mystery of Bertha and says that she respects herself enough to leave. Even when she says her last farewells, as she is reflecting on her life she falls into a deep slumber and dreams of her childhood and “[she] dreamt [she] lay in the red-room at Gateshead; that the night was dark, and [her] mind impressed with strange fears” then a mother figure comes to speak to her, and instead of panicking she watches with a strange anticipation and the motherly figure whispers in her

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