Brontë's Jane Eyre: Reinforcing the Significance of Resilience

HSC 2009 Charlotte Bronte, Jane Eyre Through its portrayal of human experience, Bronte’s Jane Eyre reinforces the significance of resilience. To what extent does your interpretation of Jane Eyre support this view? In your response, make detailed reference to the novel. Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Bronte 1847, is a novel to which human experience and self-determination is prominent. Bronte writes with such lyrical momentum, carrying the reader throughout the novel and allowing them to get a sense of her human experience to which her resilience is evident. The significance of resilience is conveyed throughout the novel repetitively and through the thorough form of Bildungsroman. There is an emphasis on Social Status, Love and the motif of nature and dualities used by Bronte to express the notion of Human experience, informing and leading the audience on a journey throughout the novel. By exploring these key area’s of the novel, Bronte directs and evolves an interpretation that can then appreciate the portrayal of human experience and reinforce the significance of resilience. Nature is a key aspect explored throughout Jane Eyre, used as a symbol of emotions, heightens the authenticity of the story line and further highlights the oscillation of emotion between salient significant settings thus broadening the idea of resilience. Charlotte Bronte uses nature very early on in her novel, introducing her writing style and encapsulating the context and setting. This can be seen most evident in Bronte’s uses nature to depict the sensuality of a certain setting. At Gateshead, Jane’s experience could have been described as miserable and “unjust”. However through the use of nature it is made more evident the discomfort of such a place, “Afar, it offered a pale blank of mist and cloud; near, a scene of wet lawn and storm-beat shrub, with ceaseless rain sweeping away wildly before a long