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Well, if you are reading this blog, I'm sure you know what Jane Eyre is! However, did the question ever occur to you: "WHY is Jane Eyre?" or "HOW is Jane Eyre?"? What I mean by these questions are why does the world of Jane's exist, and how is it that this world came to be? These questions are the foundation of Metaphysics. Well, let's answer them.
First off, Jane Eyre is widely considered to be an autobiography of sorts. As discussed in the previous post, many key events in Bronte's life seem to have counterparts in her own novel. Another important similarity is Jane and Bronte's shared love of writing. This, to me, is the most obvious answer as to why Bronte created Jane and her world. To further explain it, Bronte wanted something to relate her love of writing to. What better to do that with than a character that you can write about? It is a win-win in this scenario, directly fueled by Bronte's will to satisfy both her love for writing and her need for relation. This answers "Why".
To answer "How", one must look at secondary individuals and key occurrences in the novel. For example: how did the characters Rochester, Bertha, and St. John come to be? Those characters obviously aren't pure embodiments of Bronte like Jane is, but they have to come from somewhere. The most accepted belief was that all other characters in Jane Eyre are part of smaller parts of Bronte's psyche that are but secondary. Where Jane embodies much of Bronte's personality, she does not cover all. We see that Rochester represents the search for salvation, as he wants Jane to teach him to have a good attitude. Bertha is the wild and seductive side of Bronte. St. John represents the cold side of Bronte that she most likely wishes to not show as her own. She separates all of these characters into different personalities, not only to show that she has them, but to exemplify Jane as a symbol of herself. This reasoning does not stop here, and in fact can be applied to every aspect of Jane's world. Everything in the novel -all supernatural occurrences, all characters, and all events that cannot be innately explained- is a mere representation of some part of Bronte's psyche. This is how one answers "How" in terms of metaphysics.
First off, Jane Eyre is widely considered to be an autobiography of sorts. As discussed in the previous post, many key events in Bronte's life seem to have counterparts in her own novel. Another important similarity is Jane and Bronte's shared love of writing. This, to me, is the most obvious answer as to why Bronte created Jane and her world. To further explain it, Bronte wanted something to relate her love of writing to. What better to do that with than a character that you can write about? It is a win-win in this scenario, directly fueled by Bronte's will to satisfy both her love for writing and her need for relation. This answers "Why".
To answer "How", one must look at secondary individuals and key occurrences in the novel. For example: how did the characters Rochester, Bertha, and St. John come to be? Those characters obviously aren't pure embodiments of Bronte like Jane is, but they have to come from somewhere. The most accepted belief was that all other characters in Jane Eyre are part of smaller parts of Bronte's psyche that are but secondary. Where Jane embodies much of Bronte's personality, she does not cover all. We see that Rochester represents the search for salvation, as he wants Jane to teach him to have a good attitude. Bertha is the wild and seductive side of Bronte. St. John represents the cold side of Bronte that she most likely wishes to not show as her own. She separates all of these characters into different personalities, not only to show that she has them, but to exemplify Jane as a symbol of herself. This reasoning does not stop here, and in fact can be applied to every aspect of Jane's world. Everything in the novel -all supernatural occurrences, all characters, and all events that cannot be innately explained- is a mere representation of some part of Bronte's psyche. This is how one answers "How" in terms of metaphysics.