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This essay is a close analysis of the following pages of the Penguin edition:
passage one – 100, passage two – 174, passage three – 364
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The recurrent motif of flight throughout Jane Eyre alludes to the text’s preoccupation with the often perilous pursuit of selfhood and independence. Threatened first by the possibility of “solitude” at Lowood, Jane leaves the “prison-grounds”. Stirred by “old emotions” she is perhaps reminded of “Berwicks’s Book of Birds”, and the “real world” that is “wide” and that extends beyond the “boundary of rock and heath”. But it is not only the danger of inertia that compels Jane to flee the realm of the domestic and the contained. The compelling allure of happiness at Thornfield must be resisted at all costs. Finally, Jane concludes “I care for myself” and therefore cannot “obey” Rochester irrespective of his devouring physical power. Jane’s obscurity renders her powerless, yet, the author seems to suggest, she, as much as anyone, has the right to determine the course of her own destiny.
