Jane begins her “pilgrim” to attain maturity by solving problems she was confronting. as she was not a “contented, happy, little child” she was alienated from the “normal “society by excluding from a drawing room of Mrs. reed. Cruelly treated by john reed, without any fault, when she was imprisoned to red room she feels herself a “trifle” and “out of myself” and “like any other rebel slave” she “felt resolved…to go all lengths” to write her own self for herself.
In red room when she gazes into a “great looking glass” and finds an image floating she cannot recognize the image as a part of herself but some alien or more disturbing force that compels her to plan an escape “through flight, starvation or madness”. (Sandra M. 477) red room incident is very much important because the foundation of her life journey was laid on this incident and the same incident has the following variations like one in loowood school when she was alienated and was punished by mr brockulhurst for being lier and the third in thorn field when she feels entrapped out of herself and she struggles to escape to meet her real self .
Jane’s pilgrims’ progress takes her from one place
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The drive for social progress (in many form) appears a frequent theme in literature since ages. It may involve marrying above one’s station, as in Charlotte Bronte’s Jane Eyre. The social progress of the orphan child is traced on intellectual or education-base and the transformation of jane from a dependent to independent self proclaiming lady is shown by describing her process of transformation in various phases of life.
Victorian era was provideng a model of set standards and codes of conduct which were the idealized notion of how victorain man amd woman should be. one’s social standing without a “proper” Victorian behavior had never been