Throughout Jane Eyre’s strenuous life, she lived in five different locations. Each location symbolizes a certain time period in Jane’s life and represents her quality of life in that place. In the novel Jane Eyre by Charlotte Brontë, Jane grew up as an orphan living with her aunt and cousins at Gateshead. Because of her aunt’s cruelty and intolerance of Jane, the orphan was sent off to Lowood institution where she spent the next eight years. The following house where Jane resided was Thornfield. Here she had the job of governess and met her future husband. For a short while, Jane lived at the Moor House with Mary and Diana. Finally, Jane moved to Ferndale, her last residence. Jane endured much pain during her life, but she finally found her happiness at Ferndean. Each of the five places where Eyre lived had great symbolic importance in their names. Gateshead symbolized imprisonment, Lowood symbolized abandonment, Thornfield represented pain, the Moor House symbolized independence, and Ferndean portrayed new beginnings.
Jane’s first home was at Gateshead with her aunt and three cousins, where she was imprisoned. Jane did not remember this period in her life fondly because she was abused and neglected. Gateshead was aptly named because it felt like a prison to her. The gates barred her exit from …show more content…
I have not been trampled on. I have not been petrified. I have not been buried with inferior minds, and excluded from every glimpse of communion with what is bright and energetic, and high. I have talked, face to face, with what I reverence; with what I delight in, -with an original, a vigorous, an expanded mind. I have known you, Mr. Rochester; and it strikes me with terror and anguish to feel I absolutely must be torn from you for ever. I see the necessity of departure; and it is like looking on the necessity of death
Jane’s first home was at Gateshead with her aunt and three cousins, where she was imprisoned. Jane did not remember this period in her life fondly because she was abused and neglected. Gateshead was aptly named because it felt like a prison to her. The gates barred her exit from …show more content…
I have not been trampled on. I have not been petrified. I have not been buried with inferior minds, and excluded from every glimpse of communion with what is bright and energetic, and high. I have talked, face to face, with what I reverence; with what I delight in, -with an original, a vigorous, an expanded mind. I have known you, Mr. Rochester; and it strikes me with terror and anguish to feel I absolutely must be torn from you for ever. I see the necessity of departure; and it is like looking on the necessity of death