Jane Eyre Research task 4:

Research Task 4:

Jane was a girl with many hopes and dreams, as she grew up some of those dreams came true and some only parts of those dreams, but as she grew up she realized that those dreams were only dreams and will always remain dreams and her imagination. As a child, Jane never had the ideal childhood, and therefore she developed a deep desire to have children of her own, to love them and give them the childhood she never had. She has various dreams of the children she wants, she dream of them lying in her arms, sitting on her lap and laying outside. The dreams were sometimes happy and sometimes sad. One can see how the fact that she was left by her father, that claimed he loved her, still haunts her, and this caused these dreams she had through her life.

Jane gets engaged to Rochester and then she has the strange dreams that haunt her. She dreams of walking with Rochester on a road and he starts walking too fast and she can not keep up with him. Later on she imagines her that the thorn field is being destructed; she walks around with a child in her arms. She imagines how a wall is separating Rochester from her, she tries to climb over it but the child she is holding is making it difficult and strangling her. The time she eventually reaches the top, Rochester is too far away already, the wall breaks and she and the child falls to the ground. Her other dream is when Jane dreams how Blanche Ingram is going to marry Rochester, Ingram then fire Jane and show her the way out and off on the road to another place.

It is not only Jane’s dreams that are representing her subconscious, but her paintings too, they are closely linked to each other. Her first painting she is doing shows ship’s mast, a bare hand with a bracelet rising from the stormy sea. Her second painting involves a picture of a hill with heavy winds and a night sky from which a woman’s face is showing. The third painting she does is a painting of a human head that is supported by a hand and resting on an iceberg, coming out of the sea. As time passes Adele asked Jane to draw a painting of Rochester and Jane does so, when Rochester realises what is happening, he thinks it is a mockery and tries to tear it up, but Adele manage to save it.

Rochester never realized Jane’s talent and therefore underestimated her. The painting of Rochester gives Jane and Rochester their first conversation and he discovers her work and the beauty of it. When looking deeper to Jane’s paintings one sees how it also contains a lot of water and it can symbolise how her father left her and went on a boat on the water overseas.

Jane as a child grew up in horrible circumstances, and taught herself to escape from them by dreaming and making things in her imagination. This gave her a very active imagination and is her way of facing the reality she is living in. It enabled her to make the world she lives in seems more like a fairytale and easier. It is her way of escaping and not to let the world and society hurt her.