Importance Of Home In Jane Eyre

“Home” is a place where you are safe and loved. It is a place that no matter how hated you are by the world you are still always welcome. Jane never had a real place she can call home and conceives “home” as an emotional place rather than a physical one. To Jane it should be a place she can feel comfortable and accepted and can build those relationships with people to create a family. Throughout the novel we can see Jane searching for a place to call home. For example in chapter eight, we see Solomon say:" ‘Better is a dinner of herbs where love is, than a stalled ox and hatred therewith.’ I would not now have exchanged Lowood with all its privations, for Gateshead and its daily luxuries”. This quote shows that with the idea of “home” taking